Provider Connect Australia™

Provider Connect Australia™ is a cost free Australian Digital Health Agency initiative to help healthcare providers update their business information in a single place.  

Murray PHN have partnered with Provider Connect Australia™ (PCA™) to help transform data accuracy and increase digital health interoperability across the Australian healthcare ecosystem.  

Registering with PCA™ offers several benefits for healthcare practices: 

  • Centralised information Management – PCA™ allows health providers to update their information in one place. Updated information is automatically shared with connected business partners, including hospitals, pathology and radiology services, public service directories and secure messaging providers. 
  • Improved accuracy and efficiency – By maintaining a single master copy of your organisation’s details, PCA™ reduces the risk of errors and the need to fill out multiple forms. This streamlines the process and saves time. 
  • Enhanced connectivity – PCA™ helps healthcare providers stay connected with key partners in the healthcare ecosystem, ensuring that accurate and up-to-date information is available to those that need it. 
  • Reduced administrative burden – The service minimises administrative workload by automating the distribution of updated information and maintain effective communication with partners. It automatically updates National Health Service Directory listings and sends information to registered business partners of choice, such as funders (e.g. PHNs and Medicare), nominated private and public hospitals, pathology and radiology services, public service directories and secure messaging providers.

How it works

Provider Connect Australia™ creates unique identifiers for healthcare services, service delivery locations and practitioners’ service delivery roles, allowing these to be reliably identified and linked securely across the healthcare system. These unique identifiers complement existing national identifiers for healthcare provider organisations and individuals.

You can register as a healthcare provider (a PRODA account is required) so your business partners and patients receive and have access to up-to-date business information, or as a business partner if your organisation relies on up-to-date information from health providers and would like to receive automatic updates. 

Learn more

Register

Visit the Provider Connect Australia™ website to read the pre-registration checklist, register and set up your organisation, link your organisation to business partners and maintain details as appropriate. 

Healthcare Providers can also get support to register for PCA™ by calling the Agency’s Digital Adoption Support team on (02) 6223 0741 option 3.  

You can also contact Murray PHN’s Digital Health team e: digitalhealth@murrayphn.org.au 

Last Update: January 22nd, 2025

Murray PHN acknowledges its catchment crosses over many unceded First Nations Countries, following the Dhelkunya Yaluk (Healing River).

We pay our respects and give thanks to the Ancestors, Elders and Young people for their nurturing, protection and caregiving of these sacred lands and waterways, acknowledging their continuing cultural, spiritual and educational practices.

We are grateful for the sharing of Country and the renewal that Country gives us. We acknowledge and express our sorrow that this sharing has come at a personal, spiritual and cultural cost to the wellbeing of First Nations peoples. We commit to addressing the injustices of colonisation across our catchment, and to listening to the wisdom of First Nations communities who hold the knowledge to enable healing. We extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.