Health Connect Australia wants to know.
The Australian Digital Health Agency has put out a call to software developers and implementers to test the Health Connect Australia Provider Directory FHIR Implementation Guide.
The directory is meant to provide near real-time information about providers and their services via a single access point and set the groundwork for interoperability across the health system.
The guide’s purpose is to help software implementers to adopt the directory. It’s aimed at software development teams, architects and designers that use the Health Connect Provider Directory system.
It’s the first project in the Health Connect Australia Program Foundations phase, one of four phases towards reaching Health Connect Australia’s goal of delivering the infrastructure, standards and policy enablers that will allow health information to be safely shared across health settings.
This will replace the existing Healthcare Provider Directory. It will include over 970,000 providers and take data from sources like AHPRA, the Healthcare Identifiers Service and the Australian Business Registry, with more sources to be incorporated down the track.
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The new directory will use FHIR-based interoperability standards and open APIs. A national trust network that includes authentication, authorisation and validation protocols will mean that only verified providers can engage in information exchange.
Verified users will be able to search for providers and exchange information through a single, reliable source with near real-time updates and regular synchronisation with sources like AHPRA and Medicare.
The testing period is from 2 February to 20 February this year and the guide is scheduled for publication in March.
Anyone interested in taking part in the testing should email healthconnect@digitalhealth.gov.au with their organisation’s name and contact details.
You can see the guide here.