Shaping the future of Australian healthcare
What is Sparked?
We’re a community accelerating the creation and development of national FHIR standards in health care information exchange.
Our community consists of:
Government
Domain experts
Technology vendors
Practitioners
Provider organisations
& Peak bodies

Design groups
Develops the Australian Data Sets:
AU Core Data for Interoperability and AU eRequesting Data for Interoperability.
Develop and maintain the AU Core Implementation Guide and the AU eRequesting Implementation Guide.
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Discover Sparked products & resources
Sparked is delivering a range of products and services to enhance healthcare information exchange.

Upcoming events
Quick links
Community Co-Design Workshops 19 & 20 February 2025 (In-person Adelaide)
AUCDI Release 2 Chronic Condition Management – Draft for Community Comment OPEN UNTIL 28 MARCH 2025
AUCDI Release 2 Patient Summary – Draft for Community Comment
CDG: Interventions and follow-up definitions
AU Patient Summary Consumer Journey Jan 2025
CDG Online Meeting #9 – 23 January 2025
CDG Online Meeting #8 – 09 December 2024
AU Patient Summary Clinical Focus Group
AUCDI & AUeReqDI
Australian Core Data for Interoperability
Technical Design Group & Testing
AU Core Technical Design Group Confluence
Partnerships
Sparked is led by CSIRO’s Australian eHealth Research Centre, in partnership with the Department of Health and Aged Care (DOHAC), the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA), and HL7 Australia (HL7AU).

Community coordinator leading the development of the FHIR standards, national data for interoperability & terminology value sets.

Strategic leadership for national healthcare agenda.

Governance of digital health standards focusing on prioritisation to enable increased use, implementation, and development of digital health standards.

Facilitate the adoption of e-health in Australia by promoting effective use of standards and products developed by HL7 International and supporting their enhancement to meet local needs. increased use, implementation and development of digital health standards.
Sparked Founding Members
These organisations are recognised as Sparked Founding Members, as they actively supported and participated in the program during it’s first 12-months.
We truly appreciate each of the individuals and organisations that continue to support and participate in Sparked, contributing to developing national health data standards.
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