Advance Care Planning
Advance care planning enables individuals to make choices about their future medical treatment in the event that they are cognitively impaired or otherwise unable to make their preferences known.
Advance care planning enables individuals to make choices about their future medical treatment in the event that they are cognitively impaired or otherwise unable to make their preferences known.
Advance care documents let individuals make choices about their future medical treatment in the event that they are cognitively impaired or otherwise unable to make their preferences known.
The Australian Digital Health Agency is presenting a one hour introduction to integrating mobile applications with the My Health Record system.
The Australian Digital Health Agency aims to increase adoption of the My Health Record by connecting the My Health Record platform to mobile applications through industry standard APIs.
Included below is key information about getting started and key forms required to connect to My Health Record Mobile Gateway. Learn more....
The Australian Digital Health Agency aims to increase adoption of the My Health Record by individuals as well as healthcare professionals by connecting the My Health Record platform to mobile healthcare applications (apps) via industry standard Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
Specifications, guidance and associated collateral applicable to all types of clinical documents.
eHealth prescription record documents can be used to share information about prescribed medications via the individual’s digital health record.
The Common - Clinical Document end product provides developers of systems generating CDA documents with important updates of:
The Medicare and Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) benefits report records information about pharmaceutical items prescribed and dispensed to an individual that were partially or fully funded under the Pharmaceutical Benefit Schedule (PBS) or Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (RPBS)
The Medicare and DVA benefits reports records information about Medicare and Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) funded services provided to an individual.
Medicare DVA Benefits Report in the Australian context
The Australian Organ Donor Register (AODR) is the national register for people to record their decision about becoming an organ and tissue donor.
The Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) was a national data register, established in 1996, that records details of vaccinations given to children under seven years of age who live in Australia and are enrolled in Medicare.
On this page find information on SNOMED® CT-AU, National Clinical Terminology Service and Open Source Software.
Specifications, guidance and associated collateral applicable to all types of clinical documents.
The participation data specification is a foundation document for the suite of data specifications that the Australian Digital Health Agency is developing for the Australian Health Informatics community across a range of health topics.
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.
This document defines the Australian Digital Health Agency’s required data types as a logical level profile that conforms directly to the draft ISO 21090 standard. The detail included in this specification is less than that specified in the ISO document and the technical detail becomes relevant within the scope of this profile, during construction/implementation of Agency information products.
The Detailed Clinical Model Library is a suite of logical models that underpins the national My Health Record system.
Referrals in the Australian context
Referrals are communications with the intention of initiating a transfer of responsibility for some aspects of a consumer’s ongoing management from one provider to another across a range of healthcare and human services fields.
The aim of a shared health summary is to provide key pieces of information about an individual’s health status, facilitating care across their entire healthcare domain.
Shared health summary in the Australian context
A discharge summary is defined as "A collection of information about events during care by a provider or organisation." [AS4700.6(Int)2007]. It comprises a document produced during a patient's stay in hospital.
Discharge summaries in the Australian context
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This package contains the conformance test specifications for Prescribing systems, Dispensing Systems, Open Prescription Delivery Services (PDS), Mobile Intermediary Systems, Mobile Application Systems, and all associated test data.
These technical framework documents are provided to software vendors and demonstrate what will be required to enable electronic prescribing. These technical documents are:
The Australian Digital Health Agency provides the following documents relating to Electronic Prescribing.
Software Vendor Welcome Pack
In the welcome pack you will find the latest versions of the following:
Electronic prescribing provides an option for prescribers and their patients to have a digital prescription as an alternative to a paper prescription. Electronic prescribing is not mandatory, and patients and prescribers will be able to choose an electronic or a paper version of their prescription.
The following Electronic Prescribing Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) are categorised into the following topics: General, Dispensing and Technical Questions along with a Glossary and links to more information.
eHealth prescription record documents can be used to share information about prescribed medications via the individual’s digital health record.
Electronic Transfer of Prescription (ETP) involves the creation of an electronic message (alongside a legal paper prescription) which is transmitted to a prescription exchange service (PES).
eHealth Prescription and Dispense View documents represent an electronic summary of information about medication prescriptions and dispensations contained in an individual’s My Health Record.
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Make sure your work plan includes: Transition from SHA-1 to SHA-2 NASH PKI certificates and using a NASH PKI Certificate to access the HI Service. More....
This release of the end product formalises the transition of HI Service CCA testing to the Australian Digital Health Agency and introduces one new conformance requirement.
The following frequently asked questions relate to the use of Healthcare Identifiers in Health Software Systems.
In this guide, you will; Understand high level concepts regarding the HI Service, Register as a developer for the HI Service, Request Test Certificates and Test Environment Data, Install the Test Certificates locally and Import Certificates in CIS Software
From the 1st of November 2020, the Australian Digital Health Agency (the Agency) will be conducting Healthcare Identifier (HI) Conformance testing.
All products developed, or updated, to connect with the HI Service are required to undergo testing before production access is granted.
There are two mandatory testing processes that you will need to complete:
The National Authentication Service for Health (NASH) makes it possible for healthcare providers and supporting organisations to securely access and exchange health information.
The Healthcare Identifiers Service (HI) is a national system for uniquely identifying individuals and healthcare providers. HIs help to ensure individuals and providers can have confidence that the correct information is associated with the correct individual at the point of care.
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.
Electronic prescribing provides an option for prescribers and their patients to have a digital prescription as an alternative to a paper prescription. Electronic prescribing is not mandatory, and patients and prescribers will be able to choose an electronic or a paper version of their prescription.
The Pharmacist Shared Medicines List (PSML) is a new clinical document type supported by the My Health Record system.
The PSML contains detailed information about medicines the consumer is known to be taking when the list was created.
Electronic Transfer of Prescription (ETP) involves the creation of an electronic message (alongside a legal paper prescription) which is transmitted to a prescription exchange service (PES).
Dispense Records are used to transfer details of a dispense record, in a format suitable for sharing within My Health Record.
Dispense Records in the Australian context
The Australian Digital Health Agency is presenting a one hour introduction to integrating mobile applications with the My Health Record system.
The following Developer Guides will help you understand high level concepts regarding the HI Service and My Health Record system, register as a developer for the HI Service and My Health Record system, request Test Certificates and Test Environment Data, install the Test Certificates locally and importing certificates in CIS Software.
The Australian Digital Health Agency is presenting a one hour introduction to integrating software with the My Health Record system.
The high level system architecture describes the fundamental organisation of the My Health Record system, embodied in its components, their relationships to each other and the environment, and the principles governing its design and evolution.
Overviews, guides and conformance material relating to the My Health Record system.
The Australian Digital Health Agency aims to increase adoption of the My Health Record by connecting the My Health Record platform to mobile applications through industry standard APIs.
Included below is key information about getting started and key forms required to connect to My Health Record Mobile Gateway. Learn more....
Technical specifications to enable developers to connect applications to the My Health Record system via the FHIR® Gateway.
The Business-to-Business (B2B) Gateway services allow a range of systems to access the My Health Record system, such as clinical systems, systems integrated via a gateway, and contracted service providers acting on behalf of healthcare organisations.
Audience
To better meet the expectations and requirements of developers, the Agency now provides sample code libraries directly from GitHub and NuGet.
The National Consumer Portal (NCP) is the front-end for participating individuals to access My Health Record via desktop or mobile devices.
Consumer functions
Access to:
Consumer provided information is a way for consumers to capture information about their health which they believe will assist when dealing with health care.
Context in digital health
The Health Identifier and PCEHR System (HIPS) is an interface service designed originally for health systems, particularly within hospitals. Different healthcare systems can be connected to share data using HIPS to pass information back and forth.
The National Authentication Service for Health (NASH) makes it possible for healthcare providers and supporting organisations to securely access and exchange health information.
The My Health Record integration toolkit contains libraries for business-to-business (B2B) connectivity to the My Health Record system. The toolkit provides sample code for all operations, schemas used and sample SOAP request and response messages.
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.
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 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.
As part of the Australian National Digital Health Strategy, the Agency aims to end dependence on paper based correspondence and the fax machine or postal services by 2022.
The Agency’s Secure Messaging provides software developers with information and tools to assist in the implementation of Secure Message Delivery (SMD) and Endpoint Location Service (ELS).
Specialist letters are used in replying to a referral or reporting on a health event. They contain information related to the event or the requested diagnosis or treatment by a specialist.
The aim of an event summary is to add significant health care information to an individual’s electronic health record, at the discretion of the clinician and with the consent of the individual.
Dispense Records are used to transfer details of a dispense record, in a format suitable for sharing within My Health Record.
Dispense Records in the Australian context
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).
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