NZCDI:2024 draft is now available for community comment:
We have information available on the scope, development process and how to read it alongside the specific data groups and elements included in the draft.
We welcome your feedback and participation in the development of NZCDI. We are looking for feedback from all interested stakeholders. This includes consumers and whānau, clinicians, researchers, professional bodies, industry partners, implementers, administrators and iwi-Māori organisations.
Please join us here on the eHealth Forum or email standards@tewhatuora.govt.nz to put forth your feedback on NZCDI:2024. Primarily we would like feedback on the makeup of the data groups, elements and their definitions. We encourage this feedback to be published publicly on the eHealth Forum to allow for discussions with other interested parties.
Thank you for your contribution in the development of this essential data standard.
From a primary care perspective, specific clinical correspondence data could also be considered core for interoperability. For example, a letter from an outpatient clinic appointment could have standard data on the type of clinic (like a medical specialty), date, responsible clinician and their contact details, location. Standardising this information could enable it to be coded and automatically organised by a PMS, which would have a big impact on GP workload. Is this something that’s being considered?
Great comment Melanie and thanks for engaging on this. Totally agree that this would be a good area to standardise so the data could then populate a PMS in a sensible manner.
We would definitely be keen to explore this area further in future iterations of NZCDI. We have a submission form for new data groups/elements that I’ll fill out referring to your points here. I’ll send it through to you for comment once completed in case you would like to add anything.
We do in fact have a HISO standard which covers some of the metadata in these documents but never used in primary care. There is certainly scope to have a look at refreshing this standard and exploring its extension.