The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) is upgrading the National Authentication Service for Health (NASH) to strengthen security when accessing digital health services.
These upgrades will provide enhanced security protection of healthcare information and ensure Australians can continue accessing digital health services safely and securely.
Organisations should upgrade their software to a NASH SHA-2 ready product by 13 March 2022 to continue to connect to the following digital health services:
- My Health Record
- Healthcare Identifiers (HI) Service
- electronic prescribing
- secure messaging
ADHA has been working with software providers since 2018 to establish their software readiness for NASH SHA-2 certificates. Some software providers will be ready in September 2021, others will need more time. Your software provider will communicate with you shortly about their software readiness for NASH SHA-2.
NASH certificates can now be viewed and renewed online through HPOS.
Visit our NASH renewal page for next steps.
As the NASH certificates are hosted in HPOS via PRODA, you may find that you or your organisation need support to gain or update access into PRODA.
Visit our PRODA access page for information on registering, setting up and maintaining PRODA for individuals and organisations.