Before you begin to use Secure Messaging

Before you begin

Procedure

  1. Ensure you have completed the guide Practice Incentives Program (PIP) eHealth Incentive Requirement 1 - Integrating Healthcare Identifiers into Electronic Practice Records, available from http://www.hcn.com.au/eHealth
  2. Obtain a NASH PKI certificate for eHealth and secure messaging within two weeks of receiving your HPI-O (Requirement 1) or by 1 February 2013, whichever is later.
    PKI Certificate Where to obtain PKI Certificate Supported inMD/PS Version PIP Incentive Requirement
    HI Service PKI Certificate

    HI Signing Certificate

    HI Encryption Certificate

    If you already have a PKI certificate for Online Claiming in Pracsoft, you can update by applying to include access to the HI Service.

    		 http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/provider/health-identifier/index.jsp#N10271 MedicalDirector Clinical/PS 3.12.1b

    or later.

    		 Requirement 1
    National Authentication Service for Health (NASH) PKI certificate

    Secure Messaging Delivery (SMD)

    My Health Record

    		 http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/provider/vendors/pki/index.jsp#N1007A MedicalDirector Clinical 3.14d Requirement 2 (SMD) Requirement 5 (My Health Record)
  3. By 1 February 2013, or within four weeks of having received your NASH PKI certificate, whichever is later:
    • Practices must have a standards-compliant product with secure messaging capability that is listed on the PIP eHealth Product Register for Secure Messaging (https://epipregister.NEHTA.gov.au/registers/ securemessage delivery), or
    • Have written advice from a vendor listed on the PIP eHealth Product Register for Secure Messaging that their listed product will be available to the practice in order to meet the time frame outlined in Point 5 below.
  4. Create a written policy for the Practice which encourages the use secure clinical document exchange.
  5. Software product must be installed and configured in accordance with the Commissioning Requirements for Secure Message Delivery. For details of the Commissioning Requirements for Secure Message Delivery view the NEHTA PIP SMD Commission Requirements document. This step must be completed by 1st August 2013.

Results