Healthdirect Australia

Healthdirect Australia is a national, government-owned, not-for-profit organisation that operates core Australian digital-health infrastructure and consumer health services on behalf of the Commonwealth, states, and territories. It runs the free healthdirect symptom checker and health advice service and, most relevant to developers, delivers the National Health Services Directory (NHSD) — the authoritative national directory of health services and practitioners, covering more than 400,000 service and practitioner records. Healthdirect exposes the NHSD to government, commercial, and clinical software developers through standards-based HL7 FHIR APIs (aligned to the HL7 AU Provider Directory / AU-PD implementation guide, using SNOMED CT-AU terminology and G-NAF geocoded addresses), a FHIR bulk data export, a FHIR ingestion/data-acquisition hub for contributing sources, an embeddable NHSD search widget, and a Provider Appointments API that surfaces real-time appointment availability from certified booking platforms. Integration is gated behind a formal onboarding and test-environment registration process, and APIs are secured with OAuth 2.0 client-credentials plus an API key. Home market is Australia.

Healthdirect Australia publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: NHSD FHIR API. Tagged areas include Healthcare, Australia, FHIR, HL7, and Interoperability.

Healthdirect Australia’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, signup flow, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 23 more developer resources.

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38.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 6/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessSelf serve

5 APIs

Healthcare Australia FHIR HL7 Interoperability Provider Directory National Health SystemHealth Services DirectoryTelehealth Digital Health Appointments

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 38.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 12.0 / 17

Access Clarity 7.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 7.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 6/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Health regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

NHSD FHIR API

Real-time, read-only HL7 FHIR API over the National Health Services Directory, aligned to the HL7 AU Provider Directory (AU-PD) implementation guide. Supports querying Organizat...

NHSD FHIR Bulk Data Export

Read-only HL7 FHIR bulk data export for retrieving large NHSD datasets at a specified frequency, for integrators that need the full directory rather than real-time single-record...

NHSD FHIR Ingestion & Data Acquisition Hub

HL7 FHIR write/inbound interface for approved data-contributing sources to submit and maintain health service and practitioner records in the National Health Services Directory.

NHSD Provider Appointments API

API that surfaces real-time appointment availability and booking integration from certified provider booking platforms (AutoMed, HealthEngine, HotDoc, MedAdvisor, Medi2Apps) wit...

NHSD Search Widget

Embeddable, responsive NHSD search component that third parties can deploy on websites and mobile apps to let consumers find health services and practitioners, backed by the Nat...

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Healthdirect Authentication

oauth2/apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Healthdirect Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Healthdirect Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

SignUp

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Components

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanCollection

PostmanCollection

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

Security

SecurityTxt

Authentication

Compliance

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

ConsumerWebsite

ConsumerWebsite

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

aid: healthdirect
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/healthdirect/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Healthdirect Australia
kind: company
description: Healthdirect Australia is a national, government-owned, not-for-profit organisation that operates core Australian
  digital-health infrastructure and consumer health services on behalf of the Commonwealth, states, and territories. It runs
  the free healthdirect symptom checker and health advice service and, most relevant to developers, delivers the National
  Health Services Directory (NHSD) — the authoritative national directory of health services and practitioners, covering more
  than 400,000 service and practitioner records. Healthdirect exposes the NHSD to government, commercial, and clinical software
  developers through standards-based HL7 FHIR APIs (aligned to the HL7 AU Provider Directory / AU-PD implementation guide,
  using SNOMED CT-AU terminology and G-NAF geocoded addresses), a FHIR bulk data export, a FHIR ingestion/data-acquisition
  hub for contributing sources, an embeddable NHSD search widget, and a Provider Appointments API that surfaces real-time
  appointment availability from certified booking platforms. Integration is gated behind a formal onboarding and test-environment
  registration process, and APIs are secured with OAuth 2.0 client-credentials plus an API key. Home market is Australia.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Healthcare
- Australia
- FHIR
- HL7
- Interoperability
- Provider Directory
- National Health System
- Health Services Directory
- Telehealth
- Digital Health
- Appointments
created: '2026-07-24'
modified: '2026-07-24T18:00:00Z'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: healthdirect:nhsd-fhir-api
  name: NHSD FHIR API
  description: Real-time, read-only HL7 FHIR API over the National Health Services Directory, aligned to the HL7 AU Provider
    Directory (AU-PD) implementation guide. Supports querying Organization, HealthcareService, PractitionerRole, and Practitioner
    resources — including geospatial (location.near), open-now/open-at, service-type (SNOMED CT-AU), and identifier searches
    — for over 400,000 service and practitioner records. Secured with OAuth 2.0 client-credentials plus an x-api-key header.
  humanURL: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/documentation
  baseURL: https://api.fhir.nhsd.healthdirect.org.au/v4
  tags:
  - FHIR
  - Provider Directory
  - Healthcare
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/documentation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://build.fhir.nhsd.healthdirect.org.au/v4/index.html
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/nhsd-developers-portal.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://media.healthdirect.org.au/publications/NHSD_Developer-Guide.pdf
- aid: healthdirect:nhsd-fhir-bulk-data-export
  name: NHSD FHIR Bulk Data Export
  description: Read-only HL7 FHIR bulk data export for retrieving large NHSD datasets at a specified frequency, for integrators
    that need the full directory rather than real-time single-record lookups.
  humanURL: https://build.fhir.nhsd.healthdirect.org.au/v4/bulkexports.html
  tags:
  - FHIR
  - Bulk Data
  - Provider Directory
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/documentation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://build.fhir.nhsd.healthdirect.org.au/v4/bulkexports.html
- aid: healthdirect:nhsd-ingestion-hub
  name: NHSD FHIR Ingestion & Data Acquisition Hub
  description: HL7 FHIR write/inbound interface for approved data-contributing sources to submit and maintain health service
    and practitioner records in the National Health Services Directory.
  humanURL: https://build.fhir.nhsd.healthdirect.org.au/ingestion/index.html
  tags:
  - FHIR
  - Ingestion
  - Provider Directory
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/documentation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://build.fhir.nhsd.healthdirect.org.au/ingestion/index.html
- aid: healthdirect:nhsd-provider-appointments-api
  name: NHSD Provider Appointments API
  description: API that surfaces real-time appointment availability and booking integration from certified provider booking
    platforms (AutoMed, HealthEngine, HotDoc, MedAdvisor, Medi2Apps) within the National Health Services Directory.
  humanURL: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/documentation
  tags:
  - Appointments
  - Healthcare
  - Provider Directory
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/documentation
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://media.healthdirect.org.au/publications/NHSD_onboarding-pack_provider-appointments-api.zip
- aid: healthdirect:nhsd-widget
  name: NHSD Search Widget
  description: Embeddable, responsive NHSD search component that third parties can deploy on websites and mobile apps to let
    consumers find health services and practitioners, backed by the National Health Services Directory.
  humanURL: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/documentation
  baseURL: https://widget.nhsd.healthdirect.org.au/v1/widget/search
  tags:
  - Widget
  - Provider Directory
  - Healthcare
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://media.healthdirect.org.au/publications/NHSD_widget-implementation-guide.pdf
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/healthdirect-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/healthdirect-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/
- type: ConsumerWebsite
  url: https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub
- type: Documentation
  url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/documentation
- type: APIReference
  url: https://build.fhir.nhsd.healthdirect.org.au/v4/index.html
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/getting-started
- type: SignUp
  url: https://healthdirect-serviceline.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/3/group/12/create/44
- type: Support
  url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/technical-support
- type: Blog
  url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/news
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/healthdirect-australia
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/privacy-policy
- type: PostmanCollection
  url: collections/nhsd-developers-portal.postman_collection.json
- type: Security
  url: https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/.well-known/security.txt
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/healthdirect-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/healthdirect-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/healthdirect-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/healthdirect-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/healthdirect-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/healthdirect-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/healthdirect-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/standards
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/healthdirect-data-model.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/healthdirect-sandbox.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/healthdirect-components.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/healthdirect-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/healthdirect-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml

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