Participation Data Specification v3.3

The Participation Data Specification is a foundation document for the suite of data specifications that the Agency is developing for the Australian health informatics community across a range of health topics. These specifications are generally agreed to be of high priority in order to achieve the benefits of semantic interoperability in the Australian healthcare setting.

Participations are a fundamental concept within the Agency's information model and are used extensively in Agency-structured document templates and data specifications. Participations record context-specific information about relationships between participants and healthcare events. As such, participations are only meaningful within the context in which they are used; in other words, participation is not a stand-alone concept.