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About the PMHC-MDS

Funding by the Australian Government Department of Health has been provided to Primary Health Networks (PHNs) through a Primary Mental Health Care flexible funding pool to support commissioning of mental health and suicide prevention services in six key service delivery areas:

  • low intensity psychological interventions for people with, or at risk of, mild mental illness;
  • psychological therapies delivered by mental health professionals to under serviced groups;
  • early intervention services for children and young people with, or at risk of mental illness;
  • services for people with severe and complex mental illness who are being managed in a primary care setting;
  • enhanced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health services; and
  • a regional approach to suicide prevention activities with a focus on improved follow-up for people who have attempted suicide or are at high risk of suicide.

The Primary Mental Health Care Minimum Data Set (PMHC MDS) will provide the basis for PHNs and the Department of Health to monitor and report on the quantity and quality of service delivery, and to inform future improvements in the planning and funding of primary mental health care services funded by the Australian Government.

The data reported by PHNs through the PMHC MDS will form the basis for production of key performance indicators used to monitor services delivered across the 31 PHN regions covered by PHNs.

Logicly has been contracted by the Department of Health to manage the PMHC MDS on its behalf.

A specification of the data items to be collected in the PMHC MDS is available.

If you would like to be notified about updates to this specification or announcements about the rollout of the PMHC MDS please subscribe to the PMHC MDS mailing list by sending an email to support@pmhc-mds.com with the subject “subscribe news@lists.pmhc-mds.com”. This is not a general discussion list. Only moderated users can send messages to this list.

Information about how to get started on the PMHC MDS is available and will be regularly updated.

Announcements

Latest

PMHC MDS - Change to login workflow - introduction of MFA - 16/10/2024

As per our recent communication, to enhance data security Logicly will be releasing the new Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) login workflow change on Monday 11th November 2024. The details sent originally are included again below.

Please email support@logicly.com.au if you have any questions or issues.

Thank you

The PMHC-MDS team at Logicly

PMHC-MDS - Change to login workflow - introduction of MFA

As part of Logicly’s ongoing commitment to data security and in response to the Australian Signals Directorate’s Information Security Manual guidance, we are rolling out Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to all users that access the PMHC-MDS.

What is changing?

After entering your username and password you will be required to complete a second authentication step. MFA is an additional layer of authentication that works by requiring users to provide verification information (via a device they have) in addition to their email address/password (which they know) when logging in. Taken together these multiple “factors” are used to verify the user.

Logicly’s authentication system supports a variety of additional factors, including:

  • Push notifications sent to an application on the user’s smart mobile device
  • One-time passcodes generated by an application such as Google Authenticator and entered by the user during login
  • USB Security Keys which support WebAuthn with FIDO. These are connected to the users computer and touched during login
  • We have a user guide that will help step users through different options and how to set them up: https://docs.logicly.com.au/en/latest/mfa-user-guide.
When will this happen?

Logicly intends to release this change on 11th November 2024. A reminder email will be sent in the days prior to the change.

Why is this happening?

The change is being made in order to meet security improvements around the authentication and authorisation process for the PMHC-MDS.

Please email support@logicly.com.au if you have any questions or issues.

Thank you

The PMHC-MDS team at Logicly

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Update to the PMHC MDS - 1/11/2024 (v2.14.2) | November 01, 2024

Update to the PMHC MDS - 20/10/2024 (v2.13.7) | October 20, 2024

PMHC MDS - Change to login workflow - introduction of MFA - 16/10/2024 | October 16, 2024

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