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).
Provider Connect Australia is a service operated by the Australian Digital Health Agency that connects healthcare provider organisations to their business partners.
Quick Intro
Healthcare provider organisations use Provider Connect Australia to keep their business partners up to date with details about their organisation, locations, healthcare services, and the practitioners that provide these services.
Healthcare provider organisations can maintain their details in PCA by using the PCA web application or a conformant publishing system. Publishing systems could include practice management software, clinical information systems or other administrative systems.
Publishing systems that integrate with the PCA FHIR API will be able to synchronise saved details that are already stored in the publishing system with PCA.
Business partners can use PCA to receive information that has been published to them from healthcare provider organisations. Business partners can receive notifications from PCA when information has changed or new data is available, to ensure that their customer details are always kept up to date.
Business partners that integrate with the PCA FHIR API will be able to:
- Receive real time notifications when new changes are available
- Query the API for all changes since the last query
- Automate the matching and processing of data that has been published to them
- Prefill online forms using PCA to streamline the registration process for their customers
- Query the API for all changes since the last query
- Receive real time notifications when new changes are available
To become a PCA business partner, please email [email protected].
Document Library
Provider Connect Australia - Business Partner Welcome Pack contains guides to help business partners register their organisation with PCA to receive information that has been published to them from healthcare provider organisations.
Provider Connect Australia - Business Partner Conformance contains software conformance requirements for business partners to integrate their software with the PCA solution.
Developer Guides (PCA API)
Getting started
Client registration
Participation configuration
Publisher operations
- Publisher capability statement
- Create location
- Create healthcare service
- Search for partner services
- Get information use statement
- Authorise publication
- Find a practitioner
- Create practitioner role
- Get status of matched records
Subscriber operations
- Subscriber capability statement
- Register notification channel
- Get service offerings
- Update business partner identifier
- Submit match record