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HIC 2018: States agree to harmonise child health data to build rainbow baby book

31 July 2018
By Kate McDonald

The states and territories have agreed to harmonise the content of the jurisdictional baby books given to parents to record their baby's growth milestones, part of an initiative to develop a national digital solution that will in future be connected to the My Health Record.

Representatives from the National Children's Digital Health Collaborative told the Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2018) in Sydney yesterday that the agreement was a breakthrough in a long-standing problem in which each state and territory has its own paper book – in NSW it is the blue book, in Queensland the red book, in the NT it is yellow and so on – with different content.

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