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The Agency's Conformance and Assurance Section undertakes conformance activities in line with its Conformance Framework, which outlines the principles and overall approach to engaging with, managing, and supporting vendors to integrate with national digital health systems and develop solutions that interact in alignment to Agency conformance requirements.

Conformance activities conducted by the Agency are designed to mitigate risks and specify the way third-party software must behave when it has a connection to enable transactions with national digital health systems.

Development and administration of Conformance Assessment Schemes, comprising:

  • Development of conformance profiles and conformance test specifications
  • Delivery of conformance assessments
  • Design, development and maintenance of conformance artefacts: test data, technical documents

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Conformance Services end of year availability

Announcement

The Agency would like to advise all vendors of the availability of its conformance services, including conformance assessments and support, throughout the end of year holiday period and Agency office closure.

HI Service conformance profile update – feedback invited by 24 December 2024

Announcement

The Healthcare Identifiers (HI) Service Conformance Profile provides requirements for software developers who want to integrate with the HI Service. We are planning to update the conformance profile and conducted an information session on Tuesday 26 November at 2pm (AEDT) to explain the proposed changes. This will be followed by a four-week feedback period.

Developer guides

HI Service - Test and Go Live

All products developed, or updated, to connect with the Healthcare Identifiers Service (HI) Service are required to undergo testing before production access is granted.

Resources

Clinical Package Validator v3.4.1

Services
ID
EP-4003:2024
Type
Product
Version
3.4.1
Status
Active
The Clinical Package Validator (Validator) provides software developers with enhanced capabilities to achieve a greater degree of automation and depth of their conformance tests of clinical documents, SMD messages and HL7 v2 messages. Before formally declaring conformance of a software product, developers need to perform additional tests to ensure full…

Electronic Prescribing - Conformance Test Specifications v3.0.5

ID
EP-4030:2024
Type
Product
Version
3.0.5
Status
Active
This release of the end-product EP-4030:2024 provides the following updates:   DH-3944:2024 Electronic Prescribing – Conformance Test Specifications – Medication Chart Prescribing Systems v3.0.4 is being added to EP Conformance Test Specification Documents on its effective date November 2024 to support the testing of electronic prescribing…

Electronic Prescribing - Declaration of Conformance v2.0

ID
EP-3757:2023
Type
Standard
Product
Version
2.0
Status
Active
The Electronic Prescribing - Declaration of Conformance v2.0 has been developed in consultation with key participants in the Electronic Prescribing community to better address the requirements of the contemporary Conformance Assessment Scheme (CAS), and to clearly articulate vendor roles and responsibilities. It was redesigned as a form that can be filled,…

Healthcare Identifiers Service - Support Documents v1.5

ID
EP-3921:2024
Type
Product
Version
1.5
Status
Active
The HI Service support documents on this page provide background and guidance for healthcare provider organisations, and conformance and accreditation requirements for software developers.   For more information, refer to the documents and specifications listed below and to:    Use of Healthcare Identifiers in Health Software Systems - FAQs…

Provider Connect Australia™ – Testing Utilities v2.40

ID
EP-3848:2023
Type
Product
Version
2.40
Status
Active
You can use a client such as Postman for testing. The latest collections and environment imports are in the ZIP file linked below: Quick start guide Step   Details 1 Install Postman and create a PCA™ workspace 2 Unzip the latest postman collections archive above 3 Import all extracted files into PCA™ workspace 4…