Healthcare Information Provider Service (HIPS)
A patient-centric product that lets healthcare providers seamlessly upload and view patient health information in My Health Record.
Seamlessly integrate your hospital and laboratory systems with My Health Record and the Healthcare Identifiers Service (HI Service).
What is HIPS?
Healthcare Information Provider Service (HIPS) enables healthcare providers to upload and view key health information. HIPS is a middleware product offering seamless integration with systems including:
- patient administration systems
- clinical information systems
- laboratory and radiology information systems.
HIPS is designed primarily to support large-scale digital health environments typically found in organisations such as hospitals and diagnostic service providers.
The types of organisations using HIPS are:
- public hospitals and health services, often as part of a greater Jurisdiction Health Service (state and territory public hospitals and health services)
- private hospitals
- pathology organisations
- diagnostic imaging organisations
- health solution vendors seeking to incorporate HIPS into their solutions.
Benefits to Healthcare Providers
HIPS connects to My Health Record and HI Service, by integrating with the HI service, HIPS enables you to search for and retrieve patient healthcare identifiers, so you can:
- connect to My Health Record and the HI Service
- determine if a patient has a My Health Record
- view key information and their Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) records
- author certain CDA documents
- upload CDA documents to My Health Record
- validate and verify clinical information
- avoid duplication of pathology tests and diagnostic imaging
- improves clinical decision-making.
Clinical Information with HIPS
My Health Record contains medical information such as immunisation, hospital discharge summaries, pathology reports, diagnostics imaging reports and other clinical information. HIPS helps healthcare providers upload and view these consolidated records, providing convenient access to key health information at the point of care.
Clinical document uploads
Healthcare providers can upload a number of clinical documents to My Health Record using HIPS.
These include:
- advance care planning documents
- diagnostic imaging reports
- discharge summaries
- dispense records
- event summaries
- goals-of-care documents
- pathology reports
- pharmacist shared medicines lists
- prescription record and dispense views
- shared health summaries
- specialist letters.
Clinical document views
HIPS allows healthcare providers to view the following types of patient records through My Health Record:
- advance care directive custodian records
- diagnostic imaging reports
- pathology reports
- discharge summaries
- dispense records
- event summaries
- goals-of-care documents
- health overviews
- individual details
- Medicare overviews
- medicines views
- pharmacist shared medicines lists
- prescription and dispense views
- prescription records
- shared health summaries
- specialist letters.
Major features
HIPS HealthViewer
The HealthViewer allows clinicians to view patient information stored in My Health Record.
HealthViewer is the first major release of a new patient view feature of HIPS. It is an optional web application platform that may be added to any existing HIPS v8.3 instances or higher. The platform lets approved users list, download, display, save and print clinical documents. It is designed to be responsive, automatically adjusting the view to suit multiple device display formats.
Features
- One-click access to the My Health Record overview
- Design that reflects input from clinicians
- Emergency access functionality
- MyMedicare, emergency contact details, medical conditions view
- Allergies presented in descending order of criticality
- Supported on desktops, tablets, and smartphones
- Local or remote access – on site and off site
- Ability to download ALL patient data.
My Health Record details displayed via HIPS HealthViewer
- Overview - providing a complete summary of the information available
- Allergies and adverse reactions
- Medicines
- Discharge summaries
- Diagnostic imaging reports
- Pathology reports
- Care plans
- Child development
- e-Referrals
- Emergency contacts
- Event summaries
- Immunisations
- Medicare overview
- Information provided by consumer
- Shared health summaries
- Specialist letters
- Transfer and residential care facility documents.
HIPS HealthViewer patient overview
For full release documentation, refer to the Health Viewer Release Note.
HIPS structured pathology adapter
The HIPS Structured Pathology Adapter (HIPS SPA) is an optional add-on component for sites running HIPS v7.1 or higher. It exposes web services for authoring pathology report CDA documents and uploading these via the existing HIPS installation. The adapter is designed to alleviate the burden of creating CDA documents from information sourced from local clinical information systems. It is released as an add-on component so that future upgrades are not tied to specific releases of the HIPS core product wherever possible.
Key features of the adapter
Creation and upload of Level 3A CDA pathology report documents
Integrators may supply a request to HIPS SPA comprising an HL7 v2 ORU^R01 pathology results message, including or accompanied by a PDF version of the report. HIPS SPA will create a Level 3A pathology report document from these inputs and upload this via the existing HIPS installation.
Support for document revision
New versions of documents may be uploaded as superseding documents.
Support for structured pathology results within the generated CDA document
The pathology report view presents human-readable reports that are primarily unstructured or semi-structured data, while the CDA view offers a system-readable, structured format with a filterable summary.
Provision of SOAP web service
HIPS SPA v1.0 is the first release of the adapter and provides a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) web service that enables the creation and upload of pathology report CDA documents, including support for structured pathology results.
This is done using the same SOAP contract as the V2 pathology web service (PathologyImagingServiceV2.UploadOrRemovePathology) already available in HIPS to simplify integration for existing pathology sites.
Implements security by default, using HTTP-enabled default configuration
By default, the adapter will install with an HTTPS binding. HIPS SPA supports the ability to configure the binding and the authentication scheme in use.
Configuration via the HIPS Core Configuration API with settings held in the database
HIPS SPA retrieves its configuration via the configuration component in the new HIPS core APIs. Moving forward, all HIPS products will make use of these common APIs rather than having their own methods for configuration.
For full release documentation, refer to the Structured Pathology Adapter Release Note.
HIPS document authoring adapter
The HIPS Document Authoring Adapter (HIPS DAA) is an optional add-on component for sites running HIPS v8.3 or higher. It exposes web services for authoring CDA documents and uploading these via the existing HIPS installation. The adapter is designed to alleviate the burden of creating CDA documents from information sourced from local clinical information systems. It is released as an add-on component so that future upgrades are not tied to specific releases of the HIPS core product wherever possible.
Key features of the adapter
Creation and upload of Level 1A CDA specialist letter documents
Integrators may supply a request to HIPS DAA comprising a specialist letter in PDF format along with associated metadata. HIPS DAA will create a Level 1A specialist letter from these inputs and upload this via the existing HIPS installation.
Support for document revision
New versions of documents may be uploaded as superseding documents. HIPS DAA accepts inputs allowing the caller to identify the document set to supersede.
Provision for multiple uploads per episode of care
There is no restriction on how many different letters may be uploaded for each episode of care as HIPS DAA supports the use of an 'originating identifier' for identification of different document sets.
Support for specialist letter subtypes
The adapter accepts valid specialist letter subtypes as input and makes use of the HIPS v8.3 feature to upload documents with subtypes.
For full release documentation, refer to the Document Authoring Adapter Release Note.