# Health Connect Australia Provider Directory FHIR Implementation Guide

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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 0.2.0-preview built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/steveswinsburg/HealthConnect/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

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  - Australian States and Territories: HCServiceCoverageArea
- Copyright © 2025 Australian Digital Health Agency - All rights reserved. Except for the material identified below, this content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.National Health Services Directory© 2018+; Licensed Under Creative Commons No Rights Reserved.All copies of this resource must include this copyright statement and all information contained in this statement.
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  - Facility Amenity: HCAmenity, Mobile Healthcare Unit - Sydney CBD and Sydney Central Medical Centre
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  - HC Australian Endpoint Payload Types: AustralianEndpointPayloadTypesValueSet, HCEndpoint and Sydney General Hospital SMD Endpoint
  - HC Organization Classification CodeSystem: Caring Hands Home Support, Example Aged Care Facility, HCHSPOIdentifier, HcOrgClassVS and HcOrgClassification
  - HC Australian Service Interfaces: HCEndpoint and HCServiceInterfacesValueSet
  - IAR Levels of Care CodeSystem: Healthcare service with Residential Aged Care service type, IARLevelsOfCareExtension and IARLevelsOfCareVs
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  - HC Service Provision Code: HCHealthcareService and HCServiceProvisionCodeValueSet
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  - Location Type AU: HCLocation, Sydney CBD Mobile Unit Service Area and Virtual Telehealth Service
  - Service Provision Conditions Australian Concepts: HCHealthcareService, HCServiceProvisionCodeValueSet and Healthcare service with Residential Aged Care service type
  - IdentifierType AU: Caring Hands Home Support, Example Aged Care Facility... Show 8 more, HCHPIOIdentifier, HCHSPOIdentifier, Mobile Healthcare Unit - Sydney CBD, Practitioner/example-healthconnect-practitioner-1, PractitionerRole/example-healthconnect-practitionerrole-1, Sydney CBD Mobile Unit Service Area, Sydney Central Medical Centre and Virtual Telehealth Service
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  - ISO 3166-1 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions — Part 1: Country code: AustralianEndpointPayloadTypesCodeSystem, AustralianEndpointPayloadTypesValueSet... Show 53 more, HCAcceptNewPatient, HCAmenity, HCEndpoint, HCEndpointIdentifier, HCGenderIdentityVs, HCHPIOIdentifier, HCHSPOIdentifier, HCHealthcareService, HCLocation, HCOrganization, HCPeakBodyRegistrationNumber, HCPractitioner, HCPractitionerRole, HCPreferredPostalAddress, HCProvenance, HCSMDTargetIdentifier, HCServiceCoverageArea, HCServiceInterfaceCodeSystem, HCServiceInterfacesValueSet, HCServiceProvisionCodeCodeSystem, HCServiceProvisionCodeValueSet, HcActivePeriod, HcIarLevelsOfCareCs, HcOrgClassCS, HcOrgClassVS, HcOrgClassification, HcPractitionerRoleCommunication, HcPreferredName, HcReferralInformationForReferrer, HealthConnectAustraliaProviderDirectoryFHIRImplementationGuide, HealthConnectProviderDirectoryRequester, HealthConnectProviderDirectoryResponder, IARLevelsOfCareExtension, IARLevelsOfCareVs, PCAHealthcareServiceIdentifier, RequesterActorHealthConnect, ResponderActorHealthConnect, SearchParameterAllDay, SearchParameterDaysOfWeek, SearchParameterEndTime, SearchParameterEndpointIdentifierHC, SearchParameterEndpointPayloadMimeType, SearchParameterEndpointUrl, SearchParameterHealthcareServiceBilling, SearchParameterLanguages, SearchParameterLocationAmenities, SearchParameterLocationPhysicalType, SearchParameterLocationPostalAddress, SearchParameterPractitionerIdentifierR5, SearchParameterPractitionerRSG, SearchParameterPractitionerRegProf, SearchParameterPractitionerRoleType and SearchParameterStartTime
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  - SNOMED Clinical Terms&reg; (SNOMED CT&reg;): HCHealthcareService, Healthcare service with Residential Aged Care service type, Practitioner/example-healthconnect-practitioner-1, Practitioner/external-hc-practitioner-record and PractitionerRole/example-healthconnect-practitionerrole-1
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  - Location type: Sydney Central Medical Centre
  - UsageContextType: AustralianEndpointPayloadTypesCodeSystem, AustralianEndpointPayloadTypesValueSet... Show 53 more, HCAcceptNewPatient, HCAmenity, HCEndpoint, HCEndpointIdentifier, HCGenderIdentityVs, HCHPIOIdentifier, HCHSPOIdentifier, HCHealthcareService, HCLocation, HCOrganization, HCPeakBodyRegistrationNumber, HCPractitioner, HCPractitionerRole, HCPreferredPostalAddress, HCProvenance, HCSMDTargetIdentifier, HCServiceCoverageArea, HCServiceInterfaceCodeSystem, HCServiceInterfacesValueSet, HCServiceProvisionCodeCodeSystem, HCServiceProvisionCodeValueSet, HcActivePeriod, HcIarLevelsOfCareCs, HcOrgClassCS, HcOrgClassVS, HcOrgClassification, HcPractitionerRoleCommunication, HcPreferredName, HcReferralInformationForReferrer, HealthConnectAustraliaProviderDirectoryFHIRImplementationGuide, HealthConnectProviderDirectoryRequester, HealthConnectProviderDirectoryResponder, IARLevelsOfCareExtension, IARLevelsOfCareVs, PCAHealthcareServiceIdentifier, RequesterActorHealthConnect, ResponderActorHealthConnect, SearchParameterAllDay, SearchParameterDaysOfWeek, SearchParameterEndTime, SearchParameterEndpointIdentifierHC, SearchParameterEndpointPayloadMimeType, SearchParameterEndpointUrl, SearchParameterHealthcareServiceBilling, SearchParameterLanguages, SearchParameterLocationAmenities, SearchParameterLocationPhysicalType, SearchParameterLocationPostalAddress, SearchParameterPractitionerIdentifierR5, SearchParameterPractitionerRSG, SearchParameterPractitionerRegProf, SearchParameterPractitionerRoleType and SearchParameterStartTime
  - identifierType: HCEndpointIdentifier, HCPeakBodyRegistrationNumber, Practitioner/example-healthconnect-practitioner-1, Practitioner/external-hc-practitioner-record and Sydney General Hospital SMD Endpoint
  - ActCode: HCProvenance
  - DataOperation: HCProvenance, Provenance/provenance-practitioner-name-update and Provenance/provenance-practitioner-phone-update
  - DocumentCompletion: HCProvenance
  - NullFlavor: HCGenderIdentityVs and HCPractitioner
  - ParticipationType: HCProvenance
  - RoleCode: HCLocation and Mobile Healthcare Unit - Sydney CBD

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