About ArgusConnect

ArgusConnect Pty Ltd operates in Australia to deploy, install, support and further develop the Argus suite of secure messaging software products under licence from the Health OpenWare Foundation - the not-for-profit steward of the Argus range of products.

ArgusConnect has a charter to serve the Australian healthcare community by providing secure messaging facilities which maximise the efficiency of delivery of healthcare by the sharing of clinical information between providers at as low a cost as possible, as seamlessly as possible.

ArgusConnect works closely in Australia with the clinical software industry, healthcare service providers, government health departments, and other healthcare organisations to encourage and support the standardisation of clinical information transport mechanisms as a solution to interoperability between clinical software applications and systems. It operates as a for-public-good entity within the open-domain parameters placed on it by its stakeholders.

What is Argus?

Argus is a computer program that enables health service providers to securely exchange clinical documents between their computer systems via email.

It runs on any doctor's computer alongside existing clinical software and enhances internet email with additional features for clinical needs such as security through the use of PKI encryption, the HL7 clinical data standard for computer-to-computer interoperability, and additional mechanisms that ensure recipients receive clinical information reliably and securely.

Argus can provide doctors and other healthcare providers with access to pathology and imaging results, specialist letters, admission and discharge summaries, emergency department notifications and other related documents electronically and can import these documents into the patient notes. With Argus, a doctor can also transmit a pathology request, specialist referral, or compile and send a health summary to another doctor.

Because Argus uses open, commonly-used internet technologies (e.g. email) other healthcare providers can implement Argus easily and cheaply. Also, doctors can choose whichever Internet Service Provider they prefer.