# Health Connect Australia Provider Directory FHIR Implementation Guide

26.0.0 - Snapshot HL7 AU Connectathon Aug 25 & 26, 2026

Health Connect Australia Provider Directory FHIR Implementation Guide, published by Australian Digital Health Agency. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 26.0.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/AuDigitalHealth/HCPD-Snapshot-26.0.0-HL7AU-Connectathon-Aug-25-26/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

## : Health Connect Provider Directory Responder Actor - XML Representation

Active as of 2026-08-14

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    <ActorDefinition xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
      <id value="responder-actor-health-connect"/>
      <text>
        <status value="generated"/>
        <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p class="res-header-id"><b>Generated Narrative: ActorDefinition responder-actor-health-connect</b></p><a name="responder-actor-health-connect"> </a><a name="hcresponder-actor-health-connect"> </a><table class="grid"><tr><td><b>Actor: ResponderActorHealthConnect </b></td><td>Health Connect Provider Directory Responder Actor</td><td>Type: system </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><div><ul>
    <li><strong>SHALL</strong> implement the <a href="conformance.html">mandatory</a> requirements for the elements defined as such in this implementation guide.</li>
    <li><strong>SHALL</strong> implement the required REST API interactions and search parameters as defined in the Health Connect Provider Directory Responder Capability Statement.</li>
    </ul>
    </div></td></tr><tr><td>Capabilities:</td><td colspan="2"><a href="CapabilityStatement-health-connect-provider-directory-responder.html">Health Connect Provider Directory Responder</a> version: 26.0.0</td></tr></table></div>
      </text>
      <url
           value="http://digitalhealth.gov.au/fhir/hcpd/ActorDefinition/responder-actor-health-connect"/>
      <version value="26.0.0"/>
      <name value="ResponderActorHealthConnect"/>
      <title value="Health Connect Provider Directory Responder Actor"/>
      <status value="active"/>
      <experimental value="false"/>
      <date value="2026-08-14T02:36:58+00:00"/>
      <publisher value="Australian Digital Health Agency"/>
      <contact>
        <name value="Australian Digital Health Agency"/>
        <telecom>
          <system value="url"/>
          <value value="https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/"/>
        </telecom>
        <telecom>
          <system value="email"/>
          <value value="help@digitalhealth.gov.au"/>
        </telecom>
      </contact>
      <contact>
        <name value="Australian Digital Health Agency"/>
        <telecom>
          <system value="url"/>
          <value value="https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au"/>
          <use value="work"/>
        </telecom>
        <telecom>
          <system value="email"/>
          <value value="mailto:help@digitalhealth.gov.au"/>
          <use value="work"/>
        </telecom>
      </contact>
      <description
                   value="The Health Connect Provider Directory Responder actor represents the system that provides **Health Connect Provider Directory details**. It accepts requests for Directory information about practitioners or services and returns the requested information, or an error message if the request cannot be fulfilled."/>
      <jurisdiction>
        <coding>
          <system value="urn:iso:std:iso:3166"/>
          <code value="AU"/>
          <display value="Australia"/>
        </coding>
      </jurisdiction>
      <copyright
                 value="This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. See [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"/>
      <type value="system"/>
      <documentation
                     value="- **SHALL** implement the [mandatory](conformance.html) requirements for the elements defined as such in this implementation guide.
    - **SHALL** implement the required REST API interactions and search parameters as defined in the Health Connect Provider Directory Responder Capability Statement."/>
      <capabilities
                    value="http://digitalhealth.gov.au/fhir/hcpd/CapabilityStatement/health-connect-provider-directory-responder|26.0.0"/>
    </ActorDefinition>