FHIR® is an open-source healthcare data standard that enables continuous real-time data exchanges between healthcare applications. See the implementation guides below on how to connect your software to these products via FHIR®.
FHIR Implementation Guides (latest/current versions)
Clinical Document Architecture with Australian Schema v1.0.1
This Australian Digital Health Agency FHIR Implementation Guide is a representation of the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) R2.0 specification using HL7® FHIR®© Logical Models expressed as HL7® FHIR®© StructureDefinition instances. It is an adaptation of the HL7 International CDA Logical Model Specification with specific modifications and inclusions to represent the CDA schema including Australian CDA extensions using the FHIR StructureDefinition framework. It includes FHIR profiles defining the representation of:
- CDA extensions used in Australian context
- CDA classes in the form of structure definitions
- Vocabularies for the content exchange
Provider Connect Australia™ v25.1.0.0
My Health Record v1.4.0
The My Health Record FHIR Implementation Guide contains HL7™ FHIR® Release 4 (R4) artefacts authored and maintained by the Agency to support the electronic exchange of health information between individuals, healthcare providers, and the My Health Record system infrastructure in Australia. It includes FHIR profiles defining the representation of:
- Medical Conditions View (MCV)
- Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) information
- Australian Organ Donor Register (AODR) information
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) / Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (RPBS) claims information
- Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) / Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) claims information
- MyMedicare registered practice information
- MHR Patient Emergency Contact
- MHR Advance Care Planning Document Composition
- MHR Personal Health Notes Document Composition
Medicare Records v2.2.0
The Medicare Records FHIR Implementation Guide specifies the format of FHIR-based representations of Medicare documents that is used for the upload of such documents into the My Health Record system. It includes FHIR profiles defining the representation of:
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule (PBS) claim items;
- Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) claim items;
- Australian Organ Donor Register records;
- Australian Immunisation Register records.
The Medicare Records FHIR Implementation Guide was developed in support of the Medicare Document Simplification work package for My Health Record system release v9.3.