AU Provider Directory Implementation Guide
2.1.0 - Draft Australia flag

AU Provider Directory Implementation Guide, published by HL7 Australia. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 2.1.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/hl7au/au-fhir-pd/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

Capability Statements

Page standards status: Informative

Scope of Resource Profiles

A subset of FHIR resource types are used in this specification. These are profiled to ensure minimal elements needed for secure messaging are supported by the directory service.

  • Location is physical location, where service delivery occurs.
  • Organization is an entity providing practitioner roles and/or healthcare service.
  • PractitionerRole (provider) is a practitioner acting roles at one location for one organisation.
  • Practitioner details of an individual that maybe acting in a practitioner role.
  • HealthcareService describes the services delivered at one location for one organisation.

Service Interactions Overview

A subset of FHIR possible interactions are required for this specification. This applies to core directory services offered by a directory provider and also federated services combining results from multiple directory service sources.


Instance Level Interactions

  • read PractitionerRole, Practitioner, HealthcareService, Location, Organization, Endpoint
  • vread Not Required
  • update Not Required
  • patch Not Required
  • delete Not Required
  • history Not Required

Type Level Interactions

  • create Not Required
  • search PractitionerRole, Practitioner, HealthcareService, Location, Organization, Endpoint
  • history Not Required

Whole System Interactions

  • capabilities Required
  • batch/transaction Not Required
  • history Not Required
  • search Not required

Expected scope of search/include support:

Resource Type Profile MUST Support Search Parameters SHOULD Support Search Parameters Includes
Organization Australian Organisation Directory Entry active, name identifier  
Practitioner Australian Practitioner Directory Entry active identifier, family, given, name  
PractitionerRole Australian PractitionerRole Directory Entry active, role, specialty, identifier, healthcareService, location.address-city, location.address-postalcode, location.address-state, organization.identifier, practitioner.family, practitioner.given, practitioner.name, practitioner.identifier, endpoint.connection-type, endpoint.payload-type location.near, location.near-distance location, organization, endpoint, practitioner, healthcareService
HealthcareService Australian HealthcareService Directory Entry active, identifier, name, service-type, specialty, location.address-city, location.address-postalcode, location.address-state, organization.name, organization.identifier, endpoint.connection-type, endpoint.payload-type location.near, location.near-distance location, organization, endpoint
Location Australian Location Directory Entry status address-city, address-postalcode, address-state, near, near-distance  
Endpoint Australian Endpoint Directory Entry status, identifier, connection-type, payload-type, au-receivingfacility-namespace-id, au-receivingfacility-universal-id, au-receivingfacility-universal-id-type    

Expected adherence to search parameters:

  • FHIR search _include parameter MUST be supported to the extent described in above table.
  • FHIR search _count parameter MUST be honoured by directory service provider to limit the result count as requested by client consumers.

Expected Bundle result support and behaviour:

  • Bundle.link (paging) MUST be supported by directory service provider for a client to be sure it is obtaining a complete result set.
  • Bundle.link (paging) with IANA link relation ‘next’[1] MUST be supported by client consuming system to allow next page retrieval when available.