Directories

 

Standards and specifications

General requirements

Cyber security

The software must demonstrate ability to effectively achieve mitigation strategies in line with ‘Essential 8’.  

Privacy

Data collected about an individual by medical software is likely to constitute health information. Due to the sensitive nature of this information, it generally has a higher degree of privacy protection than other personal information, under relevant federal, state and territory legislations.

The software must demonstrate adherence to relevant federal, state or territory privacy legislation for example, the Privacy Act 1988 (Federal) or Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 (NSW).

The applicable federal legislation is the Privacy Act 1988.

Details of the relevant state and territory legislations are contained under the State and territory requirements section below.

Core requirements

Standards for identification

The system should:

• be able to discover and validate Healthcare Provider Identifiers – Individual (HPI-Is) and Healthcare Provider Identifiers – Organisation (HPI-Os) via the Healthcare Identifier (HI) Service Business-2-Business web services.

Standards for terminology, code sets and classifications

The system should:

• support provider identification in healthcare National Best Practice Data Set.

National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards

Implementation of NSQHS is mandated in all hospitals, day procedure services and public dental services across Australia.

The system must:  

• support adherence to all relevant National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards in accordance with the intended scope of the system being procured. These may include, but not limited to the following standards:
  • Partnering with Consumers Standard
  • Communicating for Safety Standard
  • Comprehensive Care Standard
  • Blood Management Standard
  • Medication Safety Standard
  • Clinical Governance Standard.
• support adherence to all relevant Clinical Care Standards.

Other Standards

International

The system should comply with:

• ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection – information security management systems – requirements. Annex A.9: access control

National

The system must comply with:  

• AS ISO 27799:2023 Health informatics - Information security management in health using ISO/IEC 27002

Connections to National Systems

HI Service

The software should:

• be able to discover and validate Healthcare Provider Identifiers – Individual (HPI-Is) and Healthcare Provider Identifiers – Organisation (HPI-Os) via the Healthcare Identifier (HI) Service.

Conformance

The software should:

• have production access to the Health Identifiers Service.

State and territory requirements

The following state and territory requirements must be upheld based on location.