Provider Connect Australia™ (PCA) maintains the accuracy of healthcare business information and practitioner contact details.
Healthcare provider organisations can use PCA to provide consistent, up-to-date information about healthcare services to funders, health service directories, communications services and other key partners in your healthcare service delivery.
Provider Connect Australia™ (PCA) will be upgraded on 17 October 2023 between 7am and 9am AEST.
This upgrade provides continuous improvements to the PCA portal registration process, making it easier for healthcare provider organisations to register and manage their registrations. The key changes are:
- Allow practitioners who are not currently registered with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) to be linked to a healthcare service.
- Leverage information stored in the Australian Business Register (ABR) to determine if a signatory has authority to sign a participation agreement.
- This will remove the need to provide evidence of authority documentation and will streamline the registration and signing process.
- Decrease the need for data re-entry by importing the existing information stored in the National Health Services Directory (NHSD).
- Deliver new functionality that will support the change of ownership (e.g. business sales, mergers or demergers) of sub-organisations, HI organisations or locations in PCA. The update will also allow PCA to handle updates to organisation information automatically from the Australian Business Register and Healthcare Identifiers Service.
- Allow healthcare provider organisations to save and publish additional information to business partners, including:
- Bank details for healthcare services and practitioner roles
- FTE information for practitioner roles
- PBS prescriber number for practitioners
Full release note details are available from Provider Connect Australia – release history.
If you have any difficulty logging in during the upgrade, please try again after 9am, 17 October 2023.
If you need assistance at any time, email [email protected] or call 1300 901 001 8am – 5pm (AEST/AEDT) Monday – Friday.