# Healthdirect Australia

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/healthdirect/  
**Website:** https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

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.

## Kin Score — 39.5 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 39.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 83.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 70.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 42.1 |
| Access Clarity | 42.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 52.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 15.6 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (5)

- **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...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Healthdirect Australia MCP Server**

## Security (3)

- **Healthdirect Authentication** — oauth2/apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Healthdirect Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **Healthdirect Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Healthcare, Australia, FHIR, HL7, Interoperability, Provider Directory, National Health System, Health Services Directory, Telehealth, Digital Health, Appointments

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/healthdirect/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.