29 October Department of Human Services : Upgrading their digital health and aged care channels October 29, 2019 By Announcement, Services Australia 0 In the 2017-18 Budget, DHS received funding to enhance, stabilise and consolidate the existing health and aged care payments channels. The Department of Human Services (DHS) delivers services and payments on behalf of the Department of Health and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) for the Medicare Benefits Scheme, Australian Immunisation Register, the Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme and Aged Care. In the 2017-18 Budget, DHS received funding to enhance, stabilise and consolidate the existing health and aged care payments channels. Their vision is to deliver secure and up-to-date industry standard technology to protect Australia’s health and aged care information, now and into the future. To do this, they will upgrade the following channels: Medicare Online Australian Immunisation Register - via Medicare Online Department of Veterans’ Affairs - via Medicare Online ECLIPSE PBS Online Aged Care And replace existing Client Adaptor, Enterprise Server Adaptor and Server Adaptor technology with web services technology. The above channels will also be moved from Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) security and be replaced with an authentication system called Provider Digital Access (PRODA). This change won’t impact organisations using a NASH PKI certificate for healthcare provider organisations to authenticate to the Healthcare Identifiers Services and the My Health Record system. From late November 2019, DHS will start communicating to all health and aged care professionals by either letter or email, advising them of the upgrades and their next steps. Click on the Attachment to read more about how this will affect you and your practice. Attached Files DHS web services article.pdf 55.29 KB Related Articles Services Australia Fact Sheets on Web Services for digital health and Aged Care Increases to allied health and mental health services for DVA clients in aged care residential facilities My Health Record – Australians to decide on a smarter and safer way to share their important healthcare information By the end of 2018, a My Health Record will be created for every Australian, unless they choose not to have one. If people choose not to have a My Health Record, they will be able to opt out of having one created for them during a three-month period, starting on Monday 16 July and ending on October 15 2018 Department of Human Services: We’d like your insights into how Medicare communication to you can be improved The Department of Human Services is conducting a research project to find out how they can improve their website and Medicare communication to Practice Managers. Department of Human Services: Medicare Communication Survey Medicare is working to enhance its website in 2020, making changes to better meet the needs of Practice Managers. Services Australia _ Health and Aged Care Quarterly Software Developer Update Comments are closed.