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This Implementation Guide describes how healthcare provider organisations and business partners share provider, organisation, and healthcare service information using FHIR as part of Provider Connect Australia (PCA). PCA assists healthcare provider organisations to maintain accurate information about their various service offerings, and to make that information available to their business partners who are also registered with PCA.
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Official URL: http://pca.digitalhealth.gov.au/fhir/4.0/ImplementationGuide/pca.digitalhealth.gov.au
This implementation guide is an HL7TM FHIR® specification for the APIs offered by the Provider Connect Australia service. It can be used to develop publishing systems and subscribing systems that integrate with the PCA service.
The primary aim of this implementation guide is to support implementers of publishing and subscribing systems integrating with the PCA service using FHIR, Release 4 (v4.0.1) [HL7FHIR4].
This implementation guide does not describe presentation of the information, user experience, or expected behaviour of publishing and subscribing systems. Systems cannot connect to the PCA APIs until they have been assessed for conformance to system behaviour requirements. These conformance requirements are available from https://implementer.digitalhealth.gov.au/resources/provider-connect-australia-conformance-v2-1.
Reference has been made to International and Australian Standards, and to Standards from Health Level Seven. The following standards are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of its content constitutes requirements for the purposes of this specification:
Wherever possible, material in this specification is based on existing standards. All efforts have been made to minimise divergence from the HL7 Australia profiles of HL7 International standards (Australian Core Profiles Implementation Guide [HL7AUCIG] and Australian Base Profiles Implementation Guide [HL7AUBIG]) to provide for system interoperability and compatibility with other profiles. Issues of an editorial nature in the source material (such as spelling or punctuation errors) are intentionally reproduced.
capability statements and operation definitions for the PCA FHIR interfaces
structure definitions and terminologies for content exchanged through the PCA FHIR interfaces
specifications of the PCA non-FHIR interfaces
a list of known issues (below)
Intended audience
This implementation guide is aimed at software development teams, architects, and designers of publishing and subscribing systems that integrate with the PCA service.
This implementation guide and related artefacts are technical in nature and the audience is expected to be familiar with the language of health data specifications and to have some familiarity with health information standards and specifications, such as FHIR.
This table lists known issues with this specification at the time of publishing. We are working on solutions to these issues and encourage comments to help us develop these solutions.
