UberGlobal positions itself for e-health spoils

Beverley Head
Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:12

Business IT - Networking

Local cloud services specialist UberGlobal Enterprise is positioning itself to be considered as the preferred delivery platform for online services being proposed as part of Australia's proposed e-health revolution.

Last week the company signalled that it was working with a newly formed alliance forged by software giant Microsoft and Parallels, to demonstrate how it might be possible to deliver secure, private health information services via the cloud. It now claims it has successfully demonstrated how that can work, released a white paper documenting that, and will now start to build up a range of different services and competencies which might be attractive to healthcare professionals in the future.

The Health Community Cloud Automation Partnership - a $US5 million, two year arrangement between Microsoft and Parallels - is focussed on developing cloud based solutions such as doctors, health administrators and insurance companies.

Parallels sells tools that allow resellers, or service aggregators, to bring together a raft of different services sold on a cloud style basis, and then have a single billing mechanism. Its tools are being used in Australia by local service provider UberGlobal Enterprise.

At the core of the Parallels offerings are a virtualisation platform; control panels to manage virtualised environments; and the automation and billing tools that allow service providers to orchestrate bundles of services from multiple sources for individual users.

Microsoft meanwhile brings a range of systems and applications software, and a range of systems already developed for the health sector.

In April the Government and National ehealth Transition Authority (Nehta) unveiled the draft concept of operations document regarding the use of personally controlled electronic health records (PCEHR) in Australia which are a cornerstone of the planned reforms. This outlines a regime which will allow Australians to allow nominated healthcare professionals to access and share their centrally located health records.

The missing link for many healthcare providers has been a locally based services company which will manage both the data in the record and secure access to it. For healthcare providers the idea of using cloud based solutions where data is stored offshore is unacceptable.