Overview
Healthcare provider organisations use Provider Connect Australia™ (also known as PCA™) to keep their business partners up to date with details about their organisation, locations, healthcare services, and the practitioners that provide these services.
Healthcare provider organisations can maintain their details using the PCA™ web application or a conformant publishing system. Publishing systems could include practice management software, clinical information systems or other administrative systems.
Publishing systems that integrate with the PCA™ FHIR API will be able to synchronise saved details that are already stored in the publishing system with PCA™.
Business partners can use PCA™ to receive information that has been published to them from healthcare provider organisations. Business partners can receive notifications when information has changed or new data is available, to ensure that their customer details are always kept up to date.
Business partners that integrate with the PCA™ FHIR API will be able to:
- Receive real time notifications when new changes are available
- Query the API for all changes since the last query
- Automate the matching and processing of data that has been published to them
- Prefill online forms using PCA™ to streamline the registration process for their customers
- Query the API for all changes since the last query
- Receive real time notifications when new changes are available
To become a business partner with PCA™, please email [email protected].
In the resources listed below:
- The Business Partner Welcome Pack contains guides to help business partners register their organisation with PCA™ to receive information that has been published to them from healthcare provider organisations.
- The Conformance product contains documentation and other resources related to software conformance requirements for software vendors to integrate their software with PCA™.
Developer guides
PCA - Getting started
The developer guide is intended to get you up-and-running with using the PCA API. It covers everything you need to know from registration, authorisation, participation to publication and subscription.
PCA - Access controls
The PCA Identity and Access Manager supports two patterns when it applies the access control.
PCA - Client registration
Register our system as a client with the PCA Identity and Access Manager as per OAuth 2.0 Dynamic Client Registration Protocol – RFC 7591.
PCA - Participation configuration
Before using Provider Connect Australia (PCA) as a publisher or subscriber, an organisation must, register, submit a participation agreement by an individual representative of the organisation, authorise a client for that organisation.
PCA - Publisher operations
This section explains how to configure Provider Connect Australia (PCA) for publisher operations.
PCA - Subscriber operations
This section explains how to configure Provider Connect Australia for subscriber operations.
PCA - Implementation patterns
This section outlines a common implementation pattern for writing (creating / updating) information with the PCA.
PCA - API Reference
Outlines the client registration operations available through the API.
PCA - Code Samples
The following code samples are written in Python and provided as samples only.
PCA - FHIR Implementation Guide
The Provider Connect Australia (PCA) FHIR Implementation Guide is an HL7™ FHIR® specification for the APIs offered by the Provider Connect Australia service.
