SA Health in collaboration with the Country SA Primary Health Network and Adelaide Primary Health Network have commenced a project to implement Secure Messaging (SM) across the state. The aim of the project is to replace fax and hard copy correspondence with secure, digitised options such as electronic referrals and discharge summaries.

As the project progresses, SA Health will request their provider partners cease using fax and hard copy options and transition to Secure Messaging.

The future Electronic Prescribing and Real Time Prescription Monitoring projects will also require similar Healthcare Identifier and NASH PKI Certificate configuration. Undertaking this this survey now will gather the supporting information required for these projects and allow us to provide site specific assistance if required.

Your responses to the following survey will help us assess your Practice and Provider readiness and better prepare you for interacting with SA Health when the time comes. If you have any further questions, please contact the Country SA PHN Digital Health team at support@countrysaphn.com.au or visit our project page at community.healthconnections.com.au/secure-messaging.

To start your practice's self-assessment, click 'Next' below

We are aware that businesses change over time, so please take a moment to review and update the below details. We will use these details to contact you with any advice in relation to your answers of this survey and future updates of the Secure Messaging project.

Please list any ownership-affiliated practices below. Depending on your current setup, we may need to provide assistance with appropriately configuring the practices so that each location has its own NASH PKI certificate and registration in the HI Service.

If you own or manage several practices, please complete a survey for each site.

Yes, we may have asked this before, but to ensure that you receive the relevant guides and resources relevant to your Clinical Management System, we would like to corroborate this information.

To use Secure Messaging with SA Health, you will need to use a NASH certificate, issued by the Department of Health, Health Identifier Service. This question will help us to identify what changes need to be made.

The recommendation from the Aged Care Royal Commission is to improve health information communication between Aged Care and other healthcare providers. In later stages of this project, we will support the uptake of Secure Messaging by Aged Care providers.

Using PRODA, please review the Healthcare Identifiers details that are recorded for your organisation and answer the below questions accordingly. It is common for these details to change. The information recorded by the HI Service will need to be correct for successful transmission of secure messages.