Healthcare Information Provider Service (HIPS)

The Healthcare Information Provider Service (HIPS) is a middleware product offering seamless integration with systems including:

• Patient administration systems
• Clinical information systems
• Laboratory and radiology information systems

It is aimed primarily at supporting large-scale digital health environments typically found in organisations such as hospitals and diagnostic service providers; however, it is also suitable for direct integration with digital health products.

HIPS functionality:

• Connection to the Healthcare Identifiers Service to search for and retrieve national healthcare identifiers 
• Connection to the My Health Record system to:
  • determine if a patient has a digital record; 
  • view a patient’s digital health record;
  • post clinical documents into this record including:
    • discharge summaries
    • prescription and dispense records
    • event summaries
    • shared health summaries
    • specialist letters
    • pathology reports
    • diagnostic imaging reports
  • package these documents before submission
• Dynamically convert HL7(R) v2 ORU messages to CDA documents for pathology reports and diagnostic imaging reports.

HIPS benefits:

• Lowering the barrier for My Health Record adoption
• Increasing document uploads
• Increasing usage of My Health Record content
• Improving clinical decision making
• Better patient care outcomes