Sparked Standards in Action with MediRecords

How MediRecords is applying Sparked standards to enable real-world healthcare interoperability.

Australia’s healthcare system is advanced in many ways, but when it comes to health information-sharing, the experience is still far from seamless. Gaps in communication between GPs, hospitals, and allied health providers can result in fragmented care, repeated tests, and lost or inaccessible patient data.

In the recent Sparked Standards in Action Showcase, MediRecords joined other industry leaders to discuss these challenges, and how we’re addressing them by implementing national interoperability standards like FHIR, AU Core, and AU Patient Summary.

MediRecords’ Tim Pegler, Business Development Manager, and Sanjeed Quaiyumi, Technical Product Manager were interviewed by Michael Hosking, former Deputy Lead for Community and Engagement at Sparked. Together, they explored:

The biggest challenges in health data exchange today

How Sparked standards like FHIR, AU Core, and AU Patient Summary are making a difference

Real-world examples of MediRecords’ work in Defence, Northern Health, and beyond

A live demo showing what interoperability looks like in practice

Watch the full showcase below to see the discussion and demo in action.

Challenges highlighted in the showcase

As discussed in the video, Australia’s healthcare system still faces persistent challenges with information-sharing. Breakdowns in data flow can have serious consequences for patient safety and create costly inefficiencies.

At MediRecords, we see this every day, not just as healthcare users ourselves, but as a digital health vendor. As early adopters of FHIR, we know the potential of modern standards to improve safety, enable innovation, and connect systems in real time. But without universal adoption and enforcement, vendors still face barriers when integrating with legacy systems that haven’t embraced FHIR.

As Tim Pegler shared during the showcase:

“While these gaps remain, no one will axe the fax.”

From repeated medical histories to duplicate records and patient ID issues, the challenges are both clinical and financial. Until the sector embraces coordinated, enforced standards, many systems will continue speaking the same language, but in incompatible dialects.

MediRecords in action

MediRecords has implemented AU Base, which is central to interoperability in the JP2060 Defence Force project, connecting with other vendor systems in real time. We’ve also applied AU Base at Northern Health to support ePrescribing in the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department. Looking ahead, AU Core and eRequesting are both progressing through pilot implementations. And right now, we’re focused on the AU Patient Summary, which will be the foundation for true consumer empowerment as people move through the healthcare system.

Explore our APIs and FHIR capabilities, and view our FHIR roadmap to see what we’ve delivered and what’s coming next.

Looking ahead with Sparked

The challenges are real, but so is the progress. Through the Sparked community, vendors, clinicians, consumers, and government are coming together to design, build and adopt common standards. While this is only the beginning, these efforts are already making a difference, and this is only the beginning.

At MediRecords, we’re proud to be a Sparked foundational member, working alongside other community members to help shape the future of healthcare interoperability in Australia.