The Australian Digital Health Authority and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization’s Australian Electronic Health Research Center have embarked on a new partnership to deliver a center of excellence in healthcare. Australia’s healthcare connection.
Their partnership will create what they say is a “world-leading” terminology service and capacity in Australia through the National Clinical Terminology Service (NCTS). NCTS provides terminology tools and services, including online browsing, mapping and authoring platforms, and CSIRO’s Ontoserver national distribution server.
According to a media release, ADHA will remain responsible for end-to-end management and administration, licensing of SNOMED CT, and the relationship with SNOMED International while CSIRO will now provide the services and functionality necessary for management. NCTS, as well as content and tool authors.
Over the next five years, they will develop new glossary content and refresh the tool through NCTS.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
Their partnership intends to enable connectivity between healthcare facilities by fostering future discussions on interoperability governance and standards.
“The services we provide enable the different parts of the system to ‘talk’ to each other, allowing for a smoother delivery of medical services, less burden on patients and less costs. “, said AEHRC CEO Dr David Hansen.
Dr. Hansen also expressed hope that their partnership will lead to continued adoption of Ontoserver, which can now be accessed through the NCTS sublicense.
TREND TO BIGGER
ADHA recently partner with Health Level Seven Australia to promote consistent application of FHIR standards in healthcare settings. It is part of the agency’s draft National Health Care Interoperability Plan, which projects a more connected Australian health system by 2027.
In other news, CSIRO recently recommended the government develop national pandemic data standards to improve data collection and sharing as part of the country’s future pandemic response. It proposes to expand ADHA’s work across the digital standards portfolio to include data standards to aid in the pandemic response.
