The National E-Health Standards Development Management Framework outlined by the Department of Health earlier this year calls for the authority to include the release of a tested and certified health interoperability framework, guidelines for a national standard for authentication, and delivery of hospital discharge summaries and referrals on a trial basis.

Last week, Standards Australia and Nehta met in the first "awareness raising activity" as referenced in the management framework paper with a clear result being that the authority wants more input from vendors about its projects.

Dr Ian Reinecke, chief executive officer of Nehta, said this involvement will be "appreciated immensely."

"The Standards seminar held in conjunction with Standards Australia was extremely important in terms of vendor feedback and input," Reinecke said.

"This type of engagement is critical to the Nehta work program. The purpose was to engage industry and ascertain how vendors are able to be more involved in standards development."