December 3, 2020

ICF Australia Interest Group Meeting

This afternoon I attended the ICF Australia Interest Group Meeting. Topics discussed included: 

  • Updates from annual WHO-FIC meeting October 2020 (Richard Madden and Catherine Sykes). They discussed the moves to bring together ICD-11, ICF and ICHI onto a common platform (ICAT) and provided a 
  • National Disability Data Asset and disability definition (Louise York, AIHW). 
    • NSW is running a pilot on early childhood education (one of five national case studies)
  • ICF and outcome measures in rehabilitation trials (Prof Cathie Sherrington) 
  • Updates from ICF Australia Interest Group Members (including NDIS Independent Assessment Framework and its use of ICF by Ros Madden)
Here is a new paper about the bringing together of the WHO classifications: 
  • Tu SW, Nyulas CI, Tudorache T, Musen MA, Martinuzzi A, van Gool C, della Mea V, Chute, CG, Frattura L, Hardiker N, ten Napel H, Madden RC, Almborg A-H, Ginige JA, Sykes CR, Celik C, Jakob R. (2020) Toward a Harmonized WHO Family of International Classifications Content Model. In L.B. Pape-Haugaard et al. (Eds.) Digital Personalized Health and Medicine. European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and IOS Press. p1409-1410. doi:10.3233/SHTI200466. http://ebooks.iospress.nl/publication/54468