Bridging the Connected Care Gap in Australia: Leveraging FHIR Standards
Why bridging the connected care gap is mission-critical to the
SecurityBrief Australia highlighted the use of FHIR technology to bridge gaps in connected care within Australia.
Summary
Telstra Health is advancing efforts to integrate and share data across Australian legacy systems using standards like FHIR for connected care. This aims to make a patient's complete history accessible in real-time across multiple healthcare settings, ensuring high-quality continuous care.
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Connected care is positioned as the cornerstone of Australia’s future healthcare, driven by seamless information flow. However, data currently suffers from technological and organizational silos, which severely impede true interoperability—the primary barrier to improvement. To address this, organizations like Telstra Health are adopting standards such as FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). By building a FHIR-based interoperability layer, clinicians can access a patient's complete health history regardless of where the data is stored. This approach is crucial in the context of policy changes, such as the proposed 'Share [Health Information] by Default' amendment to My Health Records. A key example is Telstra Health’s collaboration with Smile Digital Health. Their Clinical Data Repository facilitates data harmonization and real-time information sharing. By leveraging FHIR and CQL (Clinical Quality Language), this platform enables seamless data aggregation, care gap analysis, and clinical data analytics across various Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). These efforts represent a comprehensive digital transformation, moving beyond mere system upgrades. Achieving fully connected care requires not only modernizing legacy systems but also navigating complex compliance frameworks and ensuring broad stakeholder engagement from clinicians and patients.
Technology Note
FHIR（Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources）は医療データ交換の国際標準。このエントリの関連技術: FHIR
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