Provider Connect Australia – release history

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.

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

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