Secure messaging enables healthcare providers to securely exchange clinical documents to support the delivery of care to patients.
The need for healthcare providers to connect to each other safely and securely is greater than ever. Secure messaging enables the secure and interoperable delivery of electronic messages containing clinical documents such as referrals, specialist letters and discharge summaries between healthcare providers, sent either directly or through one or more secure messaging providers. Secure messaging solutions address all elements required to support secure, reliable message transmission, including recipient discovery, message payload standardisation, authentication of messaging parties, message transmission, message integrity checks and message acknowledgement.
About the National Secure Messaging Network (NSMN)
Further information on secure messaging is available below or via our Help Centre: [email protected] or call 1-300-901-001.
E-health secure message delivery
E-health XML secured payload profiles
E-health web services profiles
Secure Messaging v1.1
HL7 Australia Provider Directory FHIR Implementation Guide
Simplified HL7 REF-I12 profile
CDA creation and packaging tool
CDA rendering tool
MDM-T02 and ACK-T02 message tool
Clinical Package Validator
SMD messaging tools
FHIR PD2 provider directory testing tool
The Clinical Package Validator is a tool to automate some of the tests needed to assess conformance of clinical documents and clinical packages with the eHealth Specifications.
The Agency’s Electronic Signatures Recommendations document explores the legal context for eSignatures on clinical documents, explains key concepts relating to eSignatures, and analyses the clinical and business risks.
The purpose of this page is to outline the changes implemented in September 2018 to the Healthcare Identifiers (HI) Service to enable a National Authentication Service for Health (NASH) PKI organisation certificate.
The National Secure Messaging Network (NSMN) is a secure messaging solution being developed by the Agency and its industry partners.
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The Agency is providing developers of clinical information and secure messaging systems with a financial incentive to deliver enhanced functionality in an accelerated timeframe.
The eHealth integration toolkits are a collection of integration tools and sample code resources available in both .NET and Java. The sample code and integration tools are used within the eHealth reference platform, forming part of the code library for tools and simulators.
Guidance to implementers and integrators who are implementing the new interoperability standards for secure messaging.
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.
The Agency is very keen to understand and get feedback from the medical software industry on some key topics within the Guidelines.
Successful message exchange is dependent upon the correct population of segments MSH-3, MSH-4, MSH-5 and MSH-6 of outgoing messages.
Glossary of terms relating to the National Secure Messaging Network.
The following frequently asked questions relate to the Secure Messaging Industry Offer webinars. Items are categorised into the following topics: Provider Directory Service, Local Address Book, Message Payloads, NASH PKI Organisation Certificates and Testing.
Recordings and slides packs for our webinars are listed below:
The Agency's Secure Messaging Program aims to work collaboratively with industry and suppliers of secure messaging solutions and clinical software to reduce existing barriers to adoption and provide implementable solutions. Early proof of concept projects completed in late 2018, comprising secure messaging suppliers and clinical information system developers, focused on developing standardised payloads and a FHIR©-based API supporting the federated look up of healthcare provider details when addressing electronic communications.
NOTE DATE CHANGE: The upgrade will now take place on Saturday 25 June 2022.
Verizon Australia is a third party organisation who manages the issuance of both Medicare and NASH PKI certificates that are used by Healthcare Organisations to undertake electronic business with Services Australia.
Changes to the National Authentication Service for Health (NASH) PKI certificates - The Australian Digital Health Agency has been working closely with Services Australia and the medical software industry to upgrade the NASH authentication system to enhance security when accessing digital health services.
The Australian Digital Health Agency has updated the Secure Messaging end product to reflect the following changes. The introduction of FHIR provider directories as a replacement for Endpoint Location Services; and
The discontinuation of the previous Conformance Assessment Scheme for Secure Message Delivery.
9 September 2019: Collaboration to develop enhanced secure messaging functionality will ensure healthcare providers can communicate quickly, easily and securely to provide safer and more efficient care.
The Australian Digital Health Agency (the Agency) is pleased to announce the release of an industry offer that will financially incentivise software providers to implement new standards for enhanced secure messaging functionality in their products.
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).
