About the Health Data Portal Project
The Data Portal is a key stepping stone towards enhanced information capability. The Data Portal provides capability that simplifies the exchange of data and reporting products with external stakeholders. Phase 1 of the Data Portal was released on 28 June 2016, providing a stand-alone file-sharing web site.
The Data Portal allows Health and Aged Care staff to exchange data and other files with authenticated individuals in external organisations. It allows the publication and sharing of a range of file types (with the exception of executable files (.exe files) for security reasons).
In simple terms, the Data Portal can be described using a post office analogy: post office boxes are secure and only individuals with specific keys can place and access documents within those boxes.
What a user can see and do within the Data Portal depends on the user’s access rights as determined by the Health and Aged Care data owners. To gain access to the secure area, non-Health and Aged Care users are required to go through a log-in process using standard Australian Government authentications such as MyID. Health users with access to the Data Portal are admitted based on their Health and Aged Care network credentials. Non-Health and Aged Care users can apply for access through a registration process and are given credentials once approved by Health and Aged Care.