Work done by particular States and Territories can be standardised across States to ensure national compatibility. See Q. 10 above. Authorised components i.e. minimum data set components needed for population data, being transmitted automatically to a central online data bank and the patient.consumer s complete and updated medical record being transmitted automatically to decentralised databanks. This seamless process is a good argument for the participation of all health sectors both private and public if population, research and policy making data is to be complete and comprehensive. A section could be isolated within their medical record for their own use.
Online storage has the potential to improve data access.
A National Framework must resolve this challenge. Online storage should be distributed so as to protect patients and consumers from data warehousing, but developed within a national framework. Standards developed under a national framework would ensure the vehicle is in place for transmission of minimum data for aggregation for government policy making. In each State and Territory. Storage should not be the responsibility of consumers.