AUCDI-R2 supports patient summaries and chronic disease management. It’s all happening.
The CSIRO’s FHIR accelerator program Sparked has published the Australian Clinical Data for Interoperability Release 2, the next big piece of its healthcare system interoperability project.
The AUCDI is a core foundation for health data interoperability in Australia. It aims to standardise the capture, structure, usage, and exchange of health data to counteract the current fragmentation of Australia’s health data systems.
It is set to become a national asset focused on establishing an independent base of reusable, standardised information models and related artefacts.
“This initiative is pivotal in enhancing patient care, promoting clinical safety, improving clinical decision-making, and facilitating seamless health information exchange,” said Sparked lead Kate Ebrill.
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Release 1 was launched on 24 June 2024 and included the representation of the clinical content necessary for adverse reaction risk summaries, problem/diagnosis summaries, procedure completed events, immunisations, vital signs, measurements and other biomarkers for chronic disease and preventative health with an initial scope of cardiovascular risk calculation and diabetes care, medication use statements, sex and gender, and information necessary to provide the clinical context of a clinical encounter.
Release 2, now available on the Sparked website, includes additional content to support patient summaries and chronic condition management, such as interventions, social determinants of health, and health behaviours; structural changes to streamline AUCDI to focus on the data library; and, an updated name from “core” to “clinical” to reflect the clinical purpose and process of development through the Clinical Design Group.
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“We are again extremely grateful for the over 50 individuals and organisations who took the time to provide feedback on the patient summary and chronic condition management component releases as part of AUCDI R2,” said Ms Ebrill.
“We have also published the feedback we received during the community comment period. We have allocated an ID for each responder for this iteration of community feedback, and the ID will be shared with each individual responder soon.”
Next on Sparked’s agenda is AUCDI R3, which will be part of the program for the next in-person Sparked Community Co-Design workshops happening in Sydney in July.
“As part of scoping activities for AUCDI R3 during these workshops, we will also be looking to the Sparked Community to pitch to data groups or data groups and elements that they believe should be prioritised for the next release,” said Ms Ebrill.
To read the full AUCDI R2 documentation, click here.
