Interoperability needs consistent standards across the healthcare system. The catalogue helps make it happen.
The Australian Digital Health Agency has released its Digital Health Standards Catalogue which consolidates all the relevant national and international standards and provides “a single source of truth” for developers, implementers, and users of digital health solutions.
The ADHA leads the curation of the standards in collaboration with the standards community, which is encouraged to provide suggestions for additional standards as well as feedback on existing standards.
The Standards Catalogue:
- facilitates and strengthens awareness and knowledge of national digital health specifications and standards;
- enables healthcare provider organisations to incorporate relevant specifications in their digital health solution procurements;
- helps software creators developing or enhancing digital health solutions to easily find technical specifications and standards relevant to national digital health priorities; and
- ensures consistent, accurate, and reusable health-related data can be easily shared across a connected healthcare system by patients, consumers, families, and clinicians.
Consistent standards across the healthcare system allows different networks and applications to communicate and exchange data securely and reliably.
