Medtech’s new ALEX platform is an innovative groundbreaking solution to a problem that has been challenging the New Zealand Primary Care sector for decades.

Our personal health records in New Zealand are in a lamentable state. They are brittle, fractured and distributed across hundreds of different systems. Each encounter you have with a new provider creates yet another silo of your health information. That information is sometimes passed onto your GP and sometimes not. Sometimes it is updated when it changes, and sometimes it is not. Sometimes it exists in the DHB in which you reside, or with PHO you are registered with and sometimes it does not.

How can your health information, which is so distributed and diverse, be shared securely and simply via a single standard (HL7 FHIR) based query. This is the problem that ALEX has begun to crack open.

The ALEX solution focuses on providing an up to date view of your Primary Care data without creating additional data silos. Within the oversight of your GP, the platform leverages your up-to-date longitudinal health record to securely share information with a set of trusted partners.

Under the ALEX hood sit some very smart layers of Cloud technology that make it all tick. At the front end is the Microsoft Azure API, FHIR and Authentication technology.

At the back end is the Odin NeXT Cloud Middleware layer running natively on Microsoft’s super scalable Kubernetes (AKS) container management platform.

The Odin NeXT Cloud Middleware layer works hand in glove with the Microsoft solution stack to perform the tricky FHIR transformations, code set mappings, database lookups, API communications, logging and alerting.

It delivers this with rock-solid reliability and the potential to scale massively.