Future developments
The COVID-19 Register has been built to ensure interoperability with existing national data assets, such as the AIHW’s National Health Data Hub (NHDH) (formerly referred to as the National Integrated Health Services Information (NIHSI)) and the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Person Level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA). During 2024, the COVID-19 case data from the COVID-19 Register will be integrated with the NHDH. Integration will re-use current data infrastructure to support and streamline broader data integration, bring AIHW data holdings together using a modular approach as needed and as approved per project, and most importantly reduce duplication of effort.
The COVID-19 case data will be included as a separate module in the NHDH and include data from January 2020 to December 2022. There will be no further updates to the COVID-19 case data due to relaxation in testing and reporting requirements, which limit the completeness of data after this time.
The AIHW and Australian Bureau of Statistics are also working on the Australian National Data Integration Infrastructure (ANDII). This is a national linkage and integration infrastructure built to streamline and reduce the time required to build integrated datasets. More information can be found at: National Disability Data Asset, Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Such national platforms can help facilitate the sharing of data between government agencies as well as facilitate the integration of data from various sources and streamline efforts in data linkage.