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Standards Australia

Standards Australia is Australia’s leading non-government standards organisation that develops, publishes and maintains nationally recognised voluntary Australian Standards.

Although their focus is the development of standards to support Australian requirements, they also participate in the development of a wide range of international standards through the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Standards Australia specialise in the development and adoption of internationally-aligned standards and technical specifications in Australia.

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A guide to accessing historical reports from pathology providers

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Handbook
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Standards Australia
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SA HB 5530-2013
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Standard
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September 2013
Medical practice often requires obtaining historical patient pathology test results, usually when the patient is first seen by a service, or when a patient transfers between providers. This handbook outlines a mechanism for requesting copies of pre-existing reports from pathology providers.

Advance care directive custodian location, Part 1: Logical content specification

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Standards Australia
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SA TS 90008.1:2014
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2014
This technical specification describes the essential clinical data groups and elements to be captured in an advance care directive custodian record exchange and the constraints that should be applied.

Advance care directive custodian location, Part 2: CDA implementation guide

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Standards Australia
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SA TS 90008.2:2014
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Standard
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2014
This technical specification describes constraints on the CDA and, where necessary, custom extensions to the CDA, for the purpose of fulfilling the requirements for Australian implementations of advance care directives.

AS 4700.1.2.4:2014 Implementation of Health Level Seven (HL7) Version 2.4, Part 1.2.4: Patient administration

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Standards Australia
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May 2014
This standard defines a uniform implementation of chapter 3 of the HL7 Version 2.4 protocol. It aims to enable the greatest degree of standardisation possible in the exchange of patient administration data among various healthcare computer applications in Australia using HL7 Version 2.4.

AS 4700.1.2.5:2014 Implementation of Health Level Seven (HL7) Version 2.5 and Version 2.5.1, Part 1.2.5: Patient administration

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Standards Australia
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This standard defines a uniform implementation of chapter 3 of the HL7 Version 2.5 and Version 2.5.1 protocols. It aims to enable the greatest degree of standardisation possible in the exchange of patient administration data among various healthcare computer applications in Australia using HL7 Version 2.5, as well as HL7 Version 2.5.1 where applicable.

AS 4700.2-2012 Implementation of Health Level Seven (HL7) Version 2.4, Part 2: Pathology and diagnostic imaging (diagnostics)

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Standards Australia
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December 2012
This standard provides requirements and guidance for implementing electronic messages to exchange information on pathology and diagnostic imaging orders and results using the HL7 Version 2.4 protocol. It aims to specify message formats and code sets for communicating such orders and results within and between Australian healthcare settings.

AS 4700.3:2014 Implementation of Health Level Seven (HL7) Version 2.5, Part 3: Electronic messages for exchange of information on medicines prescription

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Standards Australia
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August 2014
This standard covers implementing electronic messages to exchange information on medicines prescriptions in the community and hospital environment using the HL7 Version 2.5 protocol. It covers implementation of the protocol for communication between prescribers, dispensers and their healthcare trading partners in Australia.

AS 4700.6-2013 Implementation of Health Level Seven (HL7) Version 2.5, Part 6: Referral, discharge and health record messaging

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This standard provides guidance for implementing communication of clinical patient-centred information between health service providers using the HL7 Version 2.5 protocol. It focuses on the HL7 discharge and referral, shared care and event summary messages.

AS 5021-2005 The language of health concept representation

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Standards Australia
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June 2005
This standard provides agreed definitions of terms used for health concept representation in Australia and a coherent vocabulary of the central concepts of terminology.

ATS 5546-2013 E-health endpoint location service

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Standards Australia
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December 2013
This standard defines the technical service specification for the Endpoint Location Service and contains the requisite datatypes and interfaces and behaviours. It also provides conformance criteria intended for unambiguous operation between clients and service providers.

CDA rendering interoperability specification

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Standards Australia
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SA TS 90009:2014
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Standard
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August 2014
This technical specification describes principles for clinical document architecture (CDA) rendering interoperability and its anticipated benefits. It also provides rendering requirements for constructing and presenting CDA documents.

Consumer entered information, Part 1: Logical content specification

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Standards Australia
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SA TS 90007.1:2014
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Standard
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2014
This technical specification describes the essential clinical data groups and elements to be captured in a consumer entered health summary exchange and the constraints that should be applied. This is Part 1 of 2 specifications on consumer-entered information.

Consumer entered information, Part 2: CDA implementation guide

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SA TS 90007.2:2014
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2014
This technical specification helps implement the logical model detailed by SA TS 90007.1 as an HL7 Clinical Document Architecture Release 2 (CDA) XML document. This is Part 1 of 2 specifications on consumer-entered information.

Core discharge summary, Part 1: Structured document template

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Standards Australia
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ATS 90006.1-2013
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Standard
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2013
This technical specification specifies and defines the complete set of data elements proposed for use to support the creation of a valid and interoperable discharge summary instance.

E-health Interoperability Framework v2013

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Handbook
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Standards Australia
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SA HB 137-2013
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Standard
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2013
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June 2013
This Standards Australia handbook describes a framework for specifying and achieving interoperable e-health systems.

E-health secure message delivery

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Standards Australia
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ATS 5822-2010
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Standard
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March 2010
This document describes a set of user interfaces and applications that support secure electronic message delivery between different healthcare providers.

E-health secure message delivery v2013

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Standard
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Standards Australia
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AS 5552-2013
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Standard
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2013
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December 2013
This document is the Australian Standard for e-health secure message delivery.

E-health web services profiles

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Standards Australia
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ATS 5820-2010
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Standard
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March 2010
This document defines profiles of the SOAP web services specifications.

E-health web services profiles

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Standards Australia
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AS 5550-2013
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December 2013
This document describes the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) web services specifications and a base set of specifications that define interoperable and secure web services for e-health.

E-health XML secured payload profiles

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Standard
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Standards Australia
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AS 5551-2013
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Standard
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2013
This standard defines mechanisms for representing signed XML fragments and encrypted XML fragments.

E-health XML secured payload profiles

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Standards Australia
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ATS 5821-2010
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Standard
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March 2010
This document describes how to represent digital signatures and how to encrypt data in XML.

Electronic transfer of prescriptions, Part 1: Platform independent (logical) information model to support electronic transfer of prescriptions

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Standards Australia
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ATS 4888.1-2013
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Standard
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2013
This technical specification is for a platform-independent (logical) information model for an electronic prescription, specifying the information structure of e-prescriptions, to support the electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP). This is Part 1 of 6.

Electronic transfer of prescriptions, Part 2: Platform independent (logical) services model to support electronic transfer of prescriptions

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Standards Australia
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ATS 4888.2-2013
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2013
This technical specification outlines an electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP) solution for the generation and transfer of electronic prescriptions and associated dispensing records between participating prescribers and dispensers. This is Part 2 of 6.

Electronic transfer of prescriptions, Part 4: Platform implementation specific dispense record HL7 Clinical Document Architecture implementation guide

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Standards Australia
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ATS 4888.4-2013
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2013
This technical specification provides requirements for implementing the logical model of a dispense record detailed in ATS 4888.1 as an HL7 Clinical Document Architecture Release 2 (CDA) XML document. This is Part 4 of 6.

Electronic transfer of prescriptions, Part 5: Platform implementation specific prescription request HL7 Clinical Document Architecture implementation guide

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Standards Australia
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ATS 4888.5-2013
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2013
This technical specification provides requirements for implementing the logical model of a prescription request detailed in ATS 4888.1 as an HL7 Clinical Document Architecture Release 2 (CDA) XML document. This is Part 5 of 6.

Guidelines for messaging between diagnostics providers and health service providers

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Standards Australia
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HB 262-2012
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Standard
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2012
This handbook supports AS 4700.2-2007, which is the standard for implementing external messaging using HL7 between diagnostics providers and all health service providers in Australia, using HL7 Version 2.4.

Health Care Client Identification

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Standard
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Standards Australia
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AS 5017-2006
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Standard
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June 2006
This standard is a voluntary code of practice. It provides a framework for improving the positive identification of clients in health care organisations.

Health indicators conceptual framework

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Standards Australia
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AS 21667-2012
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December 2012
This standard adopts ISO 21667:2010 to establish a conceptual framework for common health indicators. It is intended to foster a common vocabulary and conceptual definitions.

Health informatics - International patient summary

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Standards Australia
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AS ISO 27269:2022
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2022
This standard defines the core dataset for a patient summary document that supports continuity of care for a person and coordination of their health care.

Health informatics - Metadata repository requirements (MetaRep)

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Standards Australia
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SA TS ISO 21526:2022
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2022
This technical specification identically adopts ISO/TS 21526:2019, which provides requirements for collections of metadata about data elements and their containing models and datasets in a healthcare environment.

Health informatics - Representation of categorial structures of terminology (CatStructure)

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Standards Australia
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AS ISO 17115:2022
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2022
This standard defines a set of basic concepts for describing: formal concept representation systems, representation of concepts and characteristics for formal computer-based concept representation systems, and the characteristics that describe the organisation and content of a terminological system in health.

Health informatics - Terminology resource map quality measures (MapQual)

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Standards Australia
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SA TS ISO 21564:2022
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2022
This technical specification identically adopts ISO/TS 21564:2019, which provides quality requirements for producing a quality map between terminological systems.

Health records, Part 1: Paper health records v2019

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Standards Australia
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AS 2828.1:2019
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Standard
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2019
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July 2019
This standard specifies minimum requirements for the physical aspects of paper health records, aiming to ensure that they are fit for purpose, easy to use and consistent, and that they meet legal, safety and quality requirements.

Health records, Part 2: Digitized health records v2019

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Standard
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Standards Australia
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AS 2828.2:2019
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Standard
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2019
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July 2019
This standard specifies the requirements for digitisation (scanning) of paper health records.

Health software and health IT systems safety, effectiveness and security - Part 2-1: Coordination - Guidance and requirements for the use of assurance cases for safety and security

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Technical Specification
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Standards Australia
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Standard
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January 2025
This document establishes requirements and gives guidance on assurance case framework for healthcare delivery organisations (HDOs) and for health software and medical device manufacturers (MDMs) and can be used to support the communication and information transfer between all parties.

Health software and health IT systems safety, effectiveness and security, Part 1: Principles and concepts

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Standard
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Standards Australia
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AS ISO 81001.1:2022
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2022
This standard identically adopts ISO 81001 1:2021, which provides the principles, concepts, terms and definitions for health software and health IT systems, key properties of safety, effectiveness and security, across the full life cycle, from concept to decommissioning.

Health software, Part 1: General requirements for product safety

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Standards Australia
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AS IEC 82304.1:2022
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2022
This standard identically adopts IEC 82304 1:2016, which provides requirements for the safety and security of health software products designed to operate on general computing platforms and intended to be placed on the market without dedicated hardware, with a primary focus on the requirements for manufacturers.

Health Supply Chain Messaging - Evaluated receipts settlement

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Standards Australia
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ATS 5038-2006
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Standard
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2006
This technical specification documents a model for the use of electronic messaging in support of evaluated receipts settlement (ERS) in the health industry supply chain.

Health Supply Chain Messaging, Part 1: Messaging rules and process logic

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Standard
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Standards Australia
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AS 5023.1-2003
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Standard
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2003
This standard specifies messaging guidelines for electronic hospital supply chains to support the formal collection, storage and transmission of data within hospital electronic supply chains. This is Part 1 of 6 related standards on health supply chain messaging.

Health Supply Chain Messaging, Part 2: Datasets

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Standard
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Standards Australia
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AS 5023.2-2003
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Standard
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2003
This standard specifies messaging guidelines for electronic hospital supply chains to support the formal collection, storage and transmission of data within hospital electronic supply chains. This is Part 2 of 6 related standards on health supply chain messaging.

Health Supply Chain Messaging, Part 4: Dataset content - Secondary transactions

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Standards Australia
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AS 5023.4-2004
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2004
This standard specifies messaging guidelines for electronic hospital supply chains to support the formal collection, storage and transmission of data within hospital electronic supply chains. This is Part 4 of 6 standards on health supply chain messaging.

Health Supply Chain Messaging, Part 5: Messaging rules and process logic - Turnover order, turnover order status, rebate claim, rebate claim response

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Standards Australia
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AS 5023.5-2005
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Standard
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2005
This standard specifies messaging guidelines for electronic hospital supply chains to support the formal collection, storage and transmission of data within hospital electronic supply chains. This is Part 5 of 6 standards on health supply chain messaging.

Health Supply Chain Messaging, Part 6: Dataset content - Turnover order status, rebate claim, rebate claim response

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Standards Australia
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AS 5023.6-2005
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Standard
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2005
This standard specifies messaging guidelines for electronic hospital supply chains to support the formal collection, storage and transmission of data within hospital electronic supply chains. This is Part 6 of 6 standards on health supply chain messaging.

Healthcare identifier HL7 implementation guide

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Handbook
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Standards Australia
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SA HB 234-2012
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Standard
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2012
This handbook provides an implementation guide for Australian healthcare related identifiers that details how these identifiers are communicated in systems using the AS 4700 series implementation standards for HL7 v2.3, v2.3.1, v2.4 and v2.5 patient administration messages, as well as CDA.

Healthcare identifier HL7 implementation guide - AMDT 1

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Handbook
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Standards Australia
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SA HB 234-2012 AMDT 1
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Standard
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2012
This is an amendment to SA HB 234-2012 Healthcare identifier HL7 implementation guide.

HL7 V2 E-referral implementation profile

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Standards Australia
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SA TS 5338:2014
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Standard
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2014
This technical specification provides an Australian integration profile for implementation and testing of HL7 messages focusing on AS 4700.6 for referral messaging, and supports all types of referrals as covered by AS 4700.6.

Person and provider identification in healthcare

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Standards Australia
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AS 4846:2014
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Standard
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August 2014
This document provides the health industry with a standard for healthcare provider and individual identification data, which includes processes for clinical and administrative data management purposes (data structure, process and specification).

Pseudonymization

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Standard
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Standards Australia
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ATS ISO 25237-2011
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Standard
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2011
This technical specification provides principles and requirements for privacy protection using pseudonymisation services for the protection of personal health information.

SA HB 138-2013 E-health architecture principles v2013

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Handbook
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Standards Australia
ID
SA HB 138-2013
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Standard
Version
2013
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June 2013
This document describes the e-health architecture principles that can guide the development of interoperable e-health architecture in Australia.

Survey of standards environment for telehealth devices

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Supplementary Resource
Organisation
Standards Australia
ID
MP 54-2012
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Standard
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March 2012
This document provides a survey of the existing standards environments that would affect the further development of standards to apply to devices used for telehealth purposes.

Telehealth: Remote Patient Monitoring — Discussion Paper

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Supplementary Resource
Organisation
Standards Australia
ID
MP 120-2012
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Standard
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February 2012
This discussion paper provides a generic framework for computer-assisted and computer-based component activities supporting chronic disease management that involve some aspects of remote patient monitoring.

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