Secure Messaging
E-health combines the basic technologies of unique identification, authorisation and message security to provide the safest and optimally secure method of exchanging healthcare information. These technologies, known collectively as secure messaging, ensure that the health information exchanged by healthcare providers is protected against malicious interference.
NEHTA is working with the medical software industry to develop specifications and standards for secure messaging for healthcare providers. This work is associated with the Australian government’s Practice Incentives Program.
Health messaging software systems need to conform to NEHTA’s technical specifications for secure messaging. Compliance requirements apply to suppliers of health messaging products and services. NEHTA has published a list of eligible suppliers that meet the compliance requirements.
NEHTA is publishing a Compliance and Conformance Assessment Scheme and conformance test specifications, together with the business and technical specifications for secure messaging. Any organisation that is assessing an e health secure messaging software system or service should refer to these documents. They may also be referenced by any healthcare provider requiring products that conform to NEHTA’s specifications.
Test specifications – the foundations of e-health
Conformance test specifications define the tests used in verifying that software systems conform to NEHTA’s specifications. Conformance test specifications have been developed for the e-health foundations that NEHTA has defined and will be made available through this website as they are completed.
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Towards a Secure Messaging Environment v2.0
Endpoint Location Service XML Schema and WSDL Files v1.2