Auckland-based mobile health specialist Vensa Health (http://www.vensahealth.com) is in beta testing of a new application that will enable clinicians to add richer content to electronic communications with patients. Vensa's M-Site (http://hp.vensahealth.com/SolutionsServices/mHealthforHospitals/MSite.aspx), which is being trialled now with primary care clinics in New Zealand, is a way of attaching a

Health Communication Network (HCN) (http://www.hcn.com.au) is holding a series of training sessions for users of Medical Director 3 (http://www.hcn.com.au/Products/Medical+Director) and PracSoft (http://www.hcn.com.au/Products/Pracsoft) in Brisbane next month. The training sessions – MD3 on Friday, June 22 and PracSoft on Friday, June 29 – will be held at the Redcliffe

The NSW branch (http://www.hisa.org.au/members/group.asp?id=85325) of the Health Informatics Society of Australia (http://www.hisa.org.au) has called for nominations to join its branch committee. Nominees will be elected at the branch's AGM, being held on Thursday, June 21, at St Vincent's Private Hospital's function room in Darlinghurst, Sydney. Nominations open on Wednesday,

InterSystems (http://www.intersystems.com.au) has extended its HealthShare (http://www.intersystems.com/healthshare/index.html) strategic informatics platform, adding patented new technology called iKnow that allows users to retrieve and use unstructured data such as dictated notes, images and free text. It has also added new Active Analytics technology that enables up-to-the-minute patient data to be analysed

Clinical software and telehealth developer Healthbank (http://www.health-bank.com) has released an upgrade to its Healthbank Consult (http://www.healthbankconsult.com.au) telehealth service, and is now intent on expanding its market throughout Australia. Healthbank, which markets an electronic health record to clinicians based on its parent company Medtel's WinChart (http://www.winchart.com.au) peri-operative anaesthetic solution,

GS1 Australia (http://gs1au.org) and the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) (http://www.nehta.gov.au) are hosting seminars in Melbourne and Sydney next week to introduce the healthcare supply chain industry to their latest initiatives in national health supply chain reform and the use of GS1 standards. Purchasers, suppliers and distributors of medicines,