A trusted health data integration service delivering better health and research outcomes through novel data linkage mechanisms
HDI will lead to benefits for all Australians by enabling:
- policy makers in government to develop forecasts on which to base health policies, plans and budgets, leading to better use of national health resources
- the health research community to conduct more focused and relevant research through access to higher quality, more accurate and up-to-date data and data products
- provision of better health services based on the integrated analysis of national health data
Through HDI, CSIRO is enabling a network-based research infrastructure to develop the equivalent of a major virtual data repository that links individual data repositories. This will:
- help researchers to rapidly locate appropriate data repositories and provide them with better tools to exploit the data
- protect the privacy of individuals
- enable data custodians to maintain ownership and control of their data resources
- restrict access to data to authorised researchers
- help create master patient indexes across institutions and databases
- enable researchers to find answers to real life problems to improve the health and well-being of all Australians
