If you develop software for hospitals or other large healthcare organisations, then you may want to implement HIPS as middleware to integrate Digital Health products such as the Healthcare Identifiers Service (HI Service) and My Health Record system. Get started below.
The Health Identifier and PCEHR System (HIPS) is an interface service designed originally for health systems, particularly within hospitals. Different healthcare systems can be connected to share data using HIPS to pass information back and forth.
The HIPS product enables the seamless integration of digital health systems with national digital health infrastructure services, such as the Healthcare Identifiers Service, the My Health Record system, and national directory services as well as the secure point-to-point exchange of clinical documents via Secure Message Delivery (SMD).
The Australian Digital Health Agency (the Agency) has released a new minor release of its HIPS middleware product - HIPS v8.2.
By operation of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Establishing the Australian Digital Health Agency) Rule 2016, on 1 July 2016, all the assets and liabilities of NEHTA will vest in the Australian Digital Health Agency. In this website, on and from 1 July 2016, all references to "National E-Health Transition Authority" or "NEHTA" will be deemed to be references to the Australian Digital Health Agency. PCEHR means the My Health Record, formerly the "Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record", within the meaning of the My Health Records Act 2012 (Cth), formerly called the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records Act 2012 (Cth).
