Australian Core Data for Interoperability (AUCDI)
What is AUCDI?
The AUCDI is changing the approach to health data and is set to become a national asset focused on creating an independent foundation of reusable, standardised information models and related artefacts.
It is intentionally agnostic of:
- Any single clinical use case while being constructed as a foundation for many clinical use cases,
- Any single clinical system vendor while being strongly informed by functionality and data available in current clinical systems, and
- Any single technical implementation or exchange approach while providing the clinical data requirements for developing the FHIR AU Core specifications and subsequent Implementation Guides (IG).
The AUCDI:
- Will provide the initial foundation for an evolving ecosystem of agreed data groups, purpose-built to reflect clinical requirements for the data required to support the provision of care, exchange, aggregation for analysis, and to support clinical decision support.
- Describes and defines a set of data groups comprising one or more data elements, forming the foundation of a common language to allow systems to exchange semantically accurate data more efficiently.
- Will act as an agent for change by bridging fragmented silos of data and providing a foundation of building blocks of standardised data applicable to multiple use cases across a variety of clinical specialties, geographical locations, and professional contexts and problems.
- Incorporates and builds upon existing standards and prior work from national and international programs and initiatives. It has not been developed in isolation.
- Is a living artefact that will evolve and grow in future iterations to support additional use cases – adding breadth by including new clinical data groups and depth by expanding with further granular detail.
AUCDI Release 1 (R1) focused on an agreement of “the core of the core” common data elements, meaning the absolute minimum data required to support standardised clinical information capture at the point of care as well as enable the safe and meaningful exchange of information to other care providers.
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