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An issue was identified with the Healthcare Identifiers (HI) Service IHI Inquiry web services, affecting the date of birth field.

Overview

An issue was identified with the Healthcare Identifiers (HI) Service IHI Inquiry web services, affecting the date of birth field.

This issue resulted in a timezone to the consumer date of birth value in the IHI search response. For example:

Typical Response
http://ns.electronichealth.net.au/hi/xsd/common/CommonCoreElements/3.0">1973-06-09+10:00
Defective Response
http://ns.electronichealth.net.au/hi/xsd/common/CommonCoreElements/3.0">1973-06-09+10:00

If your software was impacted,  this may have affected My Health Record Interactions between the 5 December to 9 December 2020.   

We therefore urge you to assess the potential impacts and take appropriate actions.

Please contact the Agency Customer Care Team on [email protected] if assistance is required. 

Date: 
Thursday, December 17, 2020