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Submissions received on draft operating standards and technical design for Australian Clinical Quality Registries

The Commission’s Information Strategy incorporates a number of projects. One of these is the Australian Clinical Quality Registries project.

Draft operating standards and technical design have been drafted in collaboration with the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Patient Safety at Monash University and the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA).

The draft operating standards (PDF 919 KB) focus on ensuring that such registries add value over and above the routine collection of data and have clearly specified and timely mechanisms to provide feedback into clinical practice, including reporting and benchmarking. The standards shall lead to improvements in the quality, consistency, and efficiency of registries, and in the use of clinical registry information so that registries are better able to improve the safety and quality of Australian health care.

The technical design consists of an Architecture Overview (PDF 1150 KB) and a Standards Map (PDF 689 KB) and are intended to help enhance the efficiency, timeliness and inter-operability of registries.

Written submissions were invited from any individual, group or organisation that may wish to comment on the draft operating standards and technical design.

The information obtained through written submissions will be used to further develop the operating standards prior to pilot projects. Pilot projects shall be selected by open tender and are scheduled to commence in September 2008. Following these pilot projects the validated operating standards and technical design will be put to all Health Ministers in late 2009.

The submissions received are listed below in the order received. This list of submissions indicates:
  • Name of individual or organisation responsible for the submission.
  • The date that the Commission received the submission.
  • The number of pages in the submission. This figure excludes material which is not published on the website, e.g. confidential content, attachments.

Please note:
  • Submissions will remain on the Commission's website indefinitely;
  • Copyright in submissions resides with the author(s), not with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.

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Submissions

  1. Research Australia 13-Jun-08 (1 page) (PDF 32 KB)
  2. Queensland Health 20-Jun-08 (2 pages) (PDF 126 KB)
  3. Australian Corneal Graft Registry 25-Jun-08 (3 pages) (PDF 287 KB)
  4. Dr Wayne Clapton 27-Jun-08 (2 pages) (PDF 38 KB)
  5. Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry 27-Jun-08 (4 pages) (PDF 39 KB)
  6. Department of Human Services, Victoria 27-Jun-08 (1 page) (PDF 33 KB)
  7. National Trauma Registry Consortium, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons 30-Jun-08 (7 pages) (PDF 112 KB)
  8. SA Health 30-Jun-08 (1 page) (PDF 37 KB)
  9. National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre 30-Jun-08 (3 pages) (PDF 21 KB)
  10. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 30-Jun-08 (2 pages) (PDF 90 KB)
  11. Consumers' Health Forum 30-Jun-08 (8 pages) (PDF 69 KB)
  12. Heart Foundation 30-Jun-08 (1 page) (PDF 55 KB)
  13. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 30-Jun-08 (1 page) (PDF 400 KB)
  14. Department of Health and Ageing 2-Jul-08 (5 pages) (PDF 60 KB)
  15. National Health & Medical Research Council 3-Jul-08 (5 pages) (PDF 609 KB)
  16. Royal Australasian College of Surgeons 3-Jul-08 (1 page) (PDF 53 KB)
  17. Australian Blood Cancer Registry 1-Aug-08 (3 pages) (PDF 117 KB)

Information Strategy

The full and "pocket" versions of the Information Strategy are available on the Commission Publications web page.

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Updated: 04 August, 2008

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