Aged care

The Aged Care Clinical Information System (ACCIS) Standards comprise a list of technical standards, developed through consultations which included webinars with the aged care sector and targeted focus groups with software developers. The Standards are expressed as recommended minimum software requirements, for every Residential Aged Care Home’s…

The Aged care Support Plan (ACSP) document is a clinical document type in the My Health Record system. It is introduced as a new document type for My Health Record in 2024 for healthcare individuals who have undergone a Support at Home assessment operated by the Department of Health and Aged Care (DoHAC). An ACSP might contain care and support plan…

The ACTS is a digital solution using My Health Record that facilitates access to crucial health information relating to an aged care resident to support clinical hand-over when an individual is transferred from an aged care setting to acute hospital care. The ACTS implements a number of new record types into the My Health Record system for the sharing of…

The Aged Care Clinical Information System (ACCIS) standards project was initiated with co-operation from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing to help address recommendations 68 and 109 of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. Following the development of the ACCIS Standards published in August 2024, the General Practitioner…