Electronic health records are siloed within jurisdictions, separated from social science data, and contain verbatim clinical notes that limit their research potential. This creates unrealised research potential limiting the jurisdictional and substantive scope of studies jointly investigating health and social outcomes in the context of an aging society with expanding health sectors.

This project component develops governance and technical data linkage models for integrating electronic health records from the National Centre for Healthy Aging with social science administrative data, and for expanding their geographical/jurisdictional scope.  

It will also develop an AI prototype for extracting structured patient information from clinical notes.

New integrated data assets combining health records with social science data are created and geographically expanded that facilitate innovative analyses that can provide new insights into population wellbeing and service effectiveness.

This component is jointly undertaken by The National Centre for Healthy Aging (NCHA) and the University of Queensland (UQ).

The team is led by:

Prof Nadine Andrew (NCHA)

Dr Matthew Curry (UQ)