The Australian Digital Health Agency (the Agency) initiated the Aged Care Clinical Information System (ACCIS) Standards project in connection with the Department of Health and Aged Care (DoHAC) to address recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. The Royal Commission final report was released in March 2021 included 148 recommendations.
The ACCIS Standards have addressed two recommendations. Recommendation 68 requires ‘… every approved provider … uses a digital care management system (including an electronic medication management system) meeting a standard set by the Australian Digital Health Agency and interoperable with My Health Record’.
The project also supports part of recommendation 109 that highlights the need for “interoperability of information and communications systems to enable the sharing of data and information about people receiving care between aged care providers and relevant government agencies”.
The ACCIS Standards will support residential aged care homes and software developers to achieve better connections between CIS, EMM and national infrastructure.