Telstra Health unveils Corus™ – a modern care intelligence ecosystem enabling connecting care

SECTOR UPDATE - Telstra Health

Telstra Health today unveils Telstra Health Corus™, its new, cloud-native, standards-based, interoperable, care intelligence ecosystem designed to connect care across settings. 

Behind every person there’s a health story shaped by years of conversations, diagnoses and decisions. While that story belongs to them, they should not have to carry the burden of repeating it at every step of their care journey. However, this is the challenge facing modern healthcare: more information is available than ever before, yet clinicians and care teams have less time to make sense of it. 

Today, approximately 30% of the world’s data volume is generated by the healthcare industry, and this is growing at a rate of 63% annually. The shift to a more interoperable, AI-enabled health system is no longer aspirational; it is essential, and Telstra Health believes it has a responsibility to help lead that shift. 

Corus™ marks the first visible outcome of Telstra Health’s multi-year modernisation, underway since late 2024. It has been designed and built to global interoperability standards, informed by real world requirements across geographies and jurisdictions. 

Elizabeth Koff AM, Telstra Health’s Managing Director, explains, “Health and care services are managing unprecedented volumes of data on systems never designed for today’s complexity. Despite significant investment, care remains fragmented, and the gap between effort and impact continues to widen. Our ambition is simple and human: to create a world where health insight follows the person. This sits at the heart of our modernisation strategy, shaping how we invest, innovate, and partner to deliver transformative change across the Australian healthcare landscape and beyond.”

Built with clinical safety, strong cybersecurity, privacy and consent frameworks, Corus™ is designed to deliver shared capabilities across programs and care settings.  

• Corus iX™: the enterprise ‘data spine’ supporting interoperability and secure data exchange 
  
• At the heart of Corus™ is its interoperability and data exchange layer, Corus iX™ - an enterprise ‘data spine’ that enables reporting, predictive insights, AI clinical summaries, and population health tools. 
  
• The next generation of Telstra Health’s Health Information Exchange (HIE), Corus iX™ is built on Smile OmniVera HDP, a FHIR® native health data platform. It provides a governed, standards-based foundation for sharing information securely and in near real time across hospitals, primary care, aged care, community services, diagnostics, pharmacy and government programs.
  
• Corus iX™ enables reusable, modular interoperability services that can be deployed across programs and jurisdictions. This is designed to help reduce duplication, improve consistency, and make it faster to deliver connected services such as eRequesting, Smart Referrals, and eResults, at scale.
  

Helping clinicians deliver connected care for everyone 

Built for clinicians and designed to support all recipients of care, the development of Corus™ has been guided by Telstra Health's External Advisory Panel, clinical and non-clinical advisors from across the Australian health ecosystem. 

Dr Monica Trujillo, Telstra Health’s Chief Health and Risk Officer, comments, “True, connected care isn’t designed in a vacuum. Developed alongside frontline clinicians who live the challenges of fragmented systems, Corus™ represents a future where solutions work more effectively around the person. We aren't just building technology; we’re building that future with the people who are delivering care every day.”

The first capabilities delivered on Corus™ include Population Health, Care Navigation and Care Coordination. Population Health supports multiple population health and social services, while Care Navigation is among the first AI- enabled, omnichannel contact-centres, including a localised service directory. Care Coordination is designed to deliver ongoing coordination across multiple services over weeks or months. These capabilities will be available from the second half of 2026.

Dr Trujillo continues, “Health is deeply personal, yet our systems make care feel disconnected. Patients and their families should not have to retell their stories at their toughest moments, and clinicians should not be forced to make critical decisions without the full picture. It can impact the quality and safety of care. With Corus™, we aim to close the information gap by equipping clinicians with more connected, meaningful insights, helping them deliver safer, more seamless care that is built for a modern world.”

Multidisciplinary solutions, including primary care, community care, specialist care and allied health, will be available on Corus™ from mid-2027, with Aged Care solutions available from 2028. Additionally, AI-powered summaries and intuitive workflows will be gradually added to existing Aged Care and Primary Care environments, moving them closer to the Corus™ vision. 

A modern care intelligence ecosystem built for scale, security and innovation

Corus™ also represents a deliberate shift in how Telstra Health delivers digital health solutions: a cloud native, interoperable, care intelligence ecosystem, supported by market leading providers to deliver improved outcomes for our community. 

Farhoud Salimi, Chief Technology Officer at Telstra Health, says, “Health and care systems have more data, yet less ability to bring it together and make good use of it. We are addressing this with Corus™, building a shared digital capability and then reusing it many times across multiple care systems. This means reducing duplication while helping customers innovate faster, creating a more connected view across the care journey.”  

Corus™ brings together trusted data, FHIR®-native interoperability, AI-enabled intelligence and workflow-embedded experiences.  

“If connected care were purely a technology problem, we probably would have solved it by now. It’s not. It’s a system problem, and no single entity can solve that alone. By working with market-leading providers like Salesforce, Snowflake and Smile Digital Health, we are standardising core platform services, reducing complexity and thereby risk, while scaling solutions faster and with confidence. All delivered without disrupting the systems or solutions our customers rely on today,” adds Salimi.

A select group of eligible customers will be invited by Telstra Health to experience Corus™ ahead of the 2027 general release. Customers can also register interest at www.telstrahealth.com/corus.

Source: Telstra Health media release

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