Provider Connect Australia – release history
Release 2.3, 9 May 2023
Enhancements and improvements
- A new setup wizard to guide healthcare provider organisations through setting up and sharing information.
- Improved signing workflow for participation agreements:
- the legal entity type of the registering organisation will be automatically populated from the Australian Business Register, removing the need for registering organisations to collect this information beforehand
- participation agreements can be signed electronically
- a second signatory isn’t needed on applicable participation agreements.
- Ability for healthcare provider organisations to use PCA to update their organisation details in the HI Service.
Release 2.2, 16 February 2023
Enhancements and improvements
- Migration of Vaccine Clinic Finder Connect (VCFC) clinics to PCA
- Allow healthcare provider organisations to migrate their vaccine clinics from VCFC to PCA
- Allow healthcare provider organisations to update their vaccine clinics from PCA
- Online forms integration for business partners
- Allow integrated business partners to use PCA to pre-fill online forms
- Allow integrated business partners to provide access to their online forms from the PCA portal
- Enhancements to PCA registration process for healthcare provider organisations
- Improve workflow involved with signing participation agreements and uploading documents to streamline registration process
- Streamline the process for healthcare provider organisations to publish their details to the National Health Services Directory (NHSD)
- Healthcare provider organisations can immediately publish to the NHSD when creating healthcare services in PCA – unless they choose not to
- Public holiday support
- Allow healthcare provider organisations to set special public holiday opening hours in PCA
- Data export to allow bulk processing of information received by non-integrated business partners
- Allow business partners to export information published to them as a delimited text file
- Improve usability of the PCA portal
- Update the user interface of the PCA portal to improve usability
Release 2.1, 9 December 2022
Enhancements and improvements
- Enhanced practitioner search function
- Allow healthcare provider organisations to search for practitioners by name, profession, or Ahpra number
- Improved accessibility of PCA portal
- Update user interface including menus, buttons, and links to improve accessibility
- Email alert for PCA notifications
- Enable an email notification when a new notification or task is available in the PCA portal
- Improvements for non-integrated business partners
- Allow business partners to select the types of data changes that will email notification
- Allow business partners to enable the display of FHIR IDs in email notifications
- Creation of additional email frequency options for business partners