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MedicalDirector

MedicalDirector is an Australian clinical and practice-management software provider, owned by Telstra Health, that has served general practices, specialists, and day hospitals across Australia for more than 25 years. Its product family includes Helix (a cloud-based combined clinical and practice-management system), Clinical and Pracsoft (on-premise clinical and practice-management software), Bluechip (specialist practice management), and Day Surgery. Alongside Best Practice, MedicalDirector is one half of the dominant Australian GP-software duopoly. Its programmatic surface is delivered through Telstra Health Smart API+, a FHIR-native integration gateway that lets approved technology partners exchange data with MedicalDirector Helix (and, on a case-by-case basis, MedicalDirector Clinical) without bespoke, platform-specific integrations. Smart API+ is a gated, partner-onboarded API: it is publicly announced and described but has no self-serve public developer portal, and no FHIR CapabilityStatement or OpenAPI is published anonymously. Access is granted through a partner agreement, and the underlying FHIR version and SMART-on-FHIR auth specifics are not disclosed on public pages.

MedicalDirector publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Healthcare, Australia, EHR, EMR, and FHIR.

MedicalDirector’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, support, signup flow, and 9 more developer resources.

25.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
1 APIs
HealthcareAustraliaEHREMRFHIRInteroperabilityPractice ManagementPrimary CareClinical SoftwareDigital Health

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Health regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Telstra Health Smart API+

FHIR-native integration gateway from Telstra Health that provides a single, standardized interface for approved technology partners to exchange data with MedicalDirector Helix c...

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Medical Director Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: medical-director
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/medical-director/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: MedicalDirector
kind: company
description: 'MedicalDirector is an Australian clinical and practice-management software provider, owned by Telstra Health,
  that has served general practices, specialists, and day hospitals across Australia for more than 25 years. Its product family
  includes Helix (a cloud-based combined clinical and practice-management system), Clinical and Pracsoft (on-premise clinical
  and practice-management software), Bluechip (specialist practice management), and Day Surgery. Alongside Best Practice,
  MedicalDirector is one half of the dominant Australian GP-software duopoly. Its programmatic surface is delivered through
  Telstra Health Smart API+, a FHIR-native integration gateway that lets approved technology partners exchange data with MedicalDirector
  Helix (and, on a case-by-case basis, MedicalDirector Clinical) without bespoke, platform-specific integrations. Smart API+
  is a gated, partner-onboarded API: it is publicly announced and described but has no self-serve public developer portal,
  and no FHIR CapabilityStatement or OpenAPI is published anonymously. Access is granted through a partner agreement, and
  the underlying FHIR version and SMART-on-FHIR auth specifics are not disclosed on public pages.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Healthcare
- Australia
- EHR
- EMR
- FHIR
- Interoperability
- Practice Management
- Primary Care
- Clinical Software
- Digital Health
created: '2026-07-24'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: medical-director:telstra-health-smart-api-plus
  name: Telstra Health Smart API+
  description: FHIR-native integration gateway from Telstra Health that provides a single, standardized interface for approved
    technology partners to exchange data with MedicalDirector Helix cloud general-practice patient-management software (and,
    on a case-by-case basis, MedicalDirector Clinical). Marketed as a build-once gateway that removes the need for bespoke,
    platform-specific integrations across Telstra Health's primary-care ecosystem. Access is gated behind a partner agreement;
    no public FHIR CapabilityStatement, metadata endpoint, or OpenAPI is served anonymously, and the specific FHIR version
    and auth scheme are not disclosed on public pages.
  humanURL: https://www.telstrahealth.com/products/smart-api/
  tags:
  - FHIR
  - Interoperability
  - EHR
  - Primary Care
  - Healthcare
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.telstrahealth.com/products/smart-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.telstrahealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2024-Telstra-Health-Smart-API.pdf
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.telstrahealth.com/telstra-health-launches-smart-api/
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://www.telstrahealth.com/contact/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/medical-director-domain-security.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/medical-director-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/medical-director-llms.txt
- type: Website
  url: https://www.medicaldirector.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.telstrahealth.com/products/smart-api/
- type: Marketplace
  url: https://www.medicaldirector.com/marketplace
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://www.medicaldirector.com/status
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.medicaldirector.com/news/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.medicaldirector.com/support
- type: Security
  url: https://www.medicaldirector.com/security
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.medicaldirector.com/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.medicaldirector.com/documents/privacy-policy
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.telstrahealth.com/contact/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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