Focus Areas/Priorities

From EDHIN Wiki

There are four identified thematic areas.

Connecting the health ecosystem and identifying its actors

These are the indispensable requirements for interoperability, enabling trusted parties to connect, identify themselves, securely transact, and access digital health services. There are different levels of connectivity around the country and a digital divide in access to online services for consumers.

Using the same clinical terminologies

The same terminologies, code systems and data standards must be used everywhere for health data to be properly communicated. We will used semantic interoperability to share health information. Patient data must be represented in standard ways so that it can be shared and reused without loss of meaning. The ability of health care providers to use shared information with commonly understood meaning is a precondition for safe, coordinated, team-based care and positive patient experiences. We will implement a common identity, demographic and eligibility code sets in all foundational services and national systems, will accelerate the move to key international standards for terminology and replace legacy approaches, will develop data standards for core personal health information, will build an online data dictionary and terminology service and publish our national code sets online. We will also introduce a national terminology service and value set authority, and supply implementers with a free and open-source terminology server in-a-box solution.

Open data access

We will unblock access to trusted health data wherever it is located and make it available in a safe and controlled way. For communities to have access to their own information and for clinicians to have all relevant information about the patient, the data held at source must be readily accessible.

The FHIR registry will be established for open API development, the data portability specification will be published, and a conformity assessment will be implemented for the integration with the foundational APIs.

Enabling Joined-Up Services

We are aiming for an open and modular approach to interoperability that encourages collaboration, reduces duplication, and maximizes resources to create the best possible experience for consumers and providers. Building on semantic interoperability we will create the conditions for process and service interoperability. The ecosystem will enable providers to work in concert to deliver new and joined-up integrated care services to consumers.

We will establish an interoperability maturity model and regularly assess functionality, standards, adoption level, and governance, collaborate with other agencies on joined-up health and social services, and create the conditions to further develop and integrate clinical decision support tools.

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