Design of the AUCDI

The AUCDI has been developed in collaboration with the community, throught the CDG community process and is informed by the key data drivers such as clinical recording and documentation, clinical decision support, data reuse and reporting requirements.

In order to support maximum reuse and leveraging previous investment, the data model has been informed by other key local and international initiatives and programs such as previous Australian specifications and international standards. This includes:

  • My Health Record Specifications,
  • CSIRO Primary Care Data Quality Foundations (PCDQF),
  • AIHW Minimum Data Sets,
  • International Patient Summary (IPS),
  • The pan-Canadian Health Data Content Framework,
  • United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI),
  • UK Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB),
  • HL7 FHIR, and
  • openEHR International.

Relationship between AUCDI and FHIR AU Core

Design of AUCDI and relationship to AU Core

The initial design of the AUCDI commenced in 2018 during the PCDQF project with an analysis of existing data in primary care clinical systems and national standards. The AUCDI has built upon this foundation, referencing a broader range of national and international standards and initiatives described above.

The AUCDI is deliberately designed with a focus on clinicians and stakeholders, ensuring that the conceptual data models represent common, well-defined requirements identified from agreed use cases. The AUCDI direction and scope were established through in-person workshops involving clinicians, informaticians, software engineers, and other stakeholders, conducted over a period of months across 2023 and 2024. The structured representation of the AUCDI concepts in R1 has been informed by established clinical information model standards, particularly openEHR archetypes, which have been purposely developed by clinicians and informaticians focused on ensuring high-quality structured clinical data that is clinically safe and fit for purpose.

Design principles were developed to assist the development of AUCDI and to allow prioritisation by the Sparked team and the community.

AUCDI Design principles