SA Health has issued a tender for a secure message delivery (SMD) system to digitise the exchange of clinical documents such as discharge summaries and eReferrals between the state's hospitals and community healthcare providers, and to replace SA Pathology's results messaging engine, which is at the end of its life.

The tender calls for an interoperable architecture using the FHIR-based interoperability standards developed by the industry and the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA), which allow messages to be sent and received irrespective of messaging vendor.