Lead: University of New South Wales
A partnership between the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), government departments, a consortium of research organisations and the ARDC will establish a new research version of existing national linked data assets held by AIHW. The LINked Data Asset for Australian Health Research (LINDAHR) will enable robust multi-jurisdictional research assessing the safety, quality, equity and value of health care and policies as well as studies of rare diseases and priority populations. It will enable timely and cost-effective research that will reduce harm and improve surveillance and crisis responses including to pandemics. It will include longitudinal person-based records for hospitalisations, emergency department and aged care services, Medicare services, subsidised medicines, disability, notifiable conditions, cancers, cancer screening, deaths, and social determinants of health. The asset will be accessible through a secure platform and is designed to enable the progressive linkage and integration of high-value investigator-initiated health datasets, including registries, cohort studies and clinical trials.