Telstra Health shows its hand

 27-Apr-15, Pulse + IT

Hidden among the virtual acres of digital newsprint that have been given over to Telstra's venture into eHealth since it announced its presence two years ago has been the small but persistent question of what the overall strategy behind the company's many acquisitions and partnerships is all about.

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Certainly, Telstra Health has made it clear that there are six different areas that it has identified as ones it intends to concentrate on, and the company has never been shy about talking about its plans, but nutting out how this will work in practice has left many an industry observer scratching their head.

Managing director Shane Solomon said he was often asked what his strategy was, at the launch of Telstra Health's new MyCareManager solution for aged and community care recently. As a start to answering that question, he pointed to MyCareManager, describing it as typifying what Telstra hoped to achieve. It is a platform rather than a simple product, it brings together existing products already under the Telstra banner.

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