AMA submission to the AIHW consultation – Exploring future data and information needs for aged care

The AMA submission highlighted the importance of capturing the data across the entire patient journey, as many older people with frequently move between aged care and healthcare settings.  The AMA believes that improving data collection and data linkages will lead to improvements in how healthcare and aged care are provided to older people, and to improvements in aged care and healthcare planning, especially planning of primary care and tertiary care provision. 

The AMA also called for any future regulation that will enable data collection and data matching to ensure that privacy and security measures are put in place. This should be to the same standard that was applied to the implementation of My Health Record.