General Practices

The HealthLink System has been designed to provide General practices with a simple, reliable and secure method of exchanging clinical information with other health sector organisations. Typical uses for HealthLink include; delivery of pathology reports, hospital discharge summaries, patient referrals, specialist letters and messages between general practices and chronic care management systems. In New Zealand and some parts of Australia, HealthLink has become the predominant means by which information is exchanged between healthcare providers, nearly completely eradicating paper correspondence.

HealthLink uses sophisticated network management systems to monitor use of electronic messaging in order to identify and assist practices that are having difficulties with their day to day communications. All HealthLink's services are encrypted and require the use of digital certificates (otherwise known as electronic signatures).

New Zealand GPs

In New Zealand HealthLink is used by almost all general practices for electronic claiming and for the exchange of pathology results and referrals and discharge summaries. There are also a wide range of other services provided via HealthLink and available to all HealthLink subscribers. For further information as to how your practice might be using the HealthLink service, please contact us.

In New Zealand General Practices subscribe to a growing range of HealthLink services, for which they pay a fixed monthly subscription fee. View the current New Zealand Schedule of Fees.

Directory of medical practitioners in your region using HealthLink

Australian GPs

HealthLink is currently used by a number of pathology and radiology service providers and hospitals. In some areas of Australia, HealthLink has become the predominant provider of electronic communications and can be used by GPs to link to a large number of hospitals and specialists.

Currently Australian GPs receive a narrow range of services and there is no charge to GPs for those services.