AUCDI and Chronic Condition Management
Approximately 6 out of every 10 of Australians have more than one chronic condition at any one time [1]. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) indicate there are 12 main conditions that make up chronic conditions:
- Arthritis,
- Asthma,
- Back problems,
- Cancer,
- Cardiovascular disease,
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
- Dementia,
- Diabetes,
- Chronic kidney disease,
- Endometriosis,
- Mental health and
- Osteoporosis.
Evidence has shown that individuals and their care team members favour the multidisciplinary approach to chronic condition management, due to the overlapping nature of symptoms and the high degree of burden conditions have on quality of life.
With a focus on ‘core clinical data’, AUCDI provides data groups to help support care planning and chronic condition management. AUCDI contains data groups and data elements that were identified by the Sparked CDG as important for inclusion as a first step towards standardising data to support and enable information capture, exchange, and meaningful use across an individual’s health care and care team for chronic condition management. These workshops were held throughout the second half of 2024, where teams of clinicians, informaticians, patient advocate representatives, government representatives and technicians gathered in workshops across the country to help focus on the necessary data group requirements to support chronic care.
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Scope of AUCDI
[1] Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2024) Australia’s health 2024: data insights, catalogue number AUS250, AIHW, Australian Government. Available from: https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-health/chronic-conditions-challenge