The National Digital Health Strategy demonstrates that a digitally interoperable environment is a pre-condition for team-based, coordinated care, continuity of care, efficiency, data analytics, and positive patient experiences.
Developer guides
Software Developer Impact Roadmap
This roadmap has been developed to capture known impacts to software developers across participating government organisations.
Resources
Discharge Summary v1.7
This release of the Discharge Summary includes the following changes to the Discharge Summary My Health Record Conformance Profile: Revision of HPI-I relaxation with change in document version from 1.6 to 1.7 Update to the 2.3.3 Relaxation inclusions for HPI-I Discharge Summary documents support the transfer of a patient from a hospital back to the care…
eReferral v1.5
eReferral documents facilitate the transmission of significant patient information from one treating healthcare provider to another for the purpose of making a request for further diagnosis or treatment. The My Health Record system supports the collection of eReferral documents. When a healthcare provider creates an eReferral document, it will be sent…
Event Summary v1.6
Event Summary documents are used to capture key health information about significant healthcare events that are relevant to the ongoing care of an individual. Event Summary documents can be submitted to an individual’s digital health record by any participating organisation. For example, an Event Summary document could be submitted by an after-hours…
Service Referral v2.0
The previous eReferral clinical document specifications were constrained to supporting referrals from a General Practitioner to a private specialist. Referrals to public hospitals, allied health providers or human services providers were not supported. The Service Referral v1.1 specifications expand this scope of use to include any referrals for healthcare…
Specialist Letter v1.5
Specialist Letter documents are used in replying to a referral or reporting on a health event and contain information related to the event or the requested diagnosis or treatment by a specialist. When a specialist creates a Specialist Letter document, it will be sent directly to the intended recipient, as per current practices. A copy may also be sent to…