PBS Data Distribution Project

03 Nov 2022

The Department of Health and Aged Care is modernising the consumption and data distribution model for the monthly PBS Schedule data, in order to:

• Make the data easier to understand and use in software;
• Improve data latency and data provision through best practice architecture; and
• Improve accessibility to PBS Schedule data for the public and external stakeholders (e.g. software vendors).

Meetings

Modernising data access Webinar - 30 July 2020

• Presentation (PDF 1.6MB) - (PowerPoint 3MB)

PBS Data Distribution, Software Vendor Working Group - Meeting #1 - 28 September 2020 

• Presentation (PDF 1.3MB) -  (PowerPoint 1.2MB)
• Meeting Notes (PDF 221KB) - (Word 141KB)

PBS Data Distribution, Software Vendor Working Group - Meeting #2 - 10 November 2020

• Presentation (PDF 1.5MB) - (PowerPoint 1.2MB)
• Recording of Meeting
• Draft Legislative Instrument DataMart (PNG 306KB)
• Draft Legislative Instrument DataMart Data Dictionary v0.5 (Excel 38KB)
• Meeting Notes (PDF 223KB) - (Word 142KB)

PBS Data Distribution, Software Vendor Working Group - Meeting #3 - 8 December 2020

• Presentation (PDF 1.5MB) - (PowerPoint 1.5MB)
• Recording of Meeting
• Alpha API v.0.9.0 Documentation
• Meeting Notes (PDF 225KB) - (Word 135KB)

PBS Data Distribution, Software Vendor Working Group - Meeting #4 - 9 February 2021

• Presentation (PDF 1MB) - (PowerPoint 879KB)
• Recording of Meeting
• Meeting Notes (PDF 201KB) - (Word 137KB)

PBS Data Distribution, Software Vendor Working Group - Meeting #5 - 15 June 2021

• Presentation (PDF 350KB) - (PowerPoint 540KB)
• Recording of Meeting
• Meeting Notes (PDF 216KB) - (Word 145KB)

API

The Department continues to work on the PBS Data Distribution project. The team has created a fully operational datamart and API, which are currently undergoing testing. The team is also working on additional features for the datamart, including:

• Optimising the time taken for new data to be made available through the API with each month’s publication
• Improved data publishing business processes
• Improved data quality assurance
• Improved system environment and support processes

A version of the API will be made available for public beta testing when the above activities are complete and of appropriate quality.

Contact

For any questions in relation to the PBS Data Distribution Project and modernising data access, please contact: pbsdataproject@health.gov.au.

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