Australian Health ThesaurusAustralian Health ThesaurusData linkages and research presentation James Humffray – Information Manager

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Who we are

Healthdirect Australia – A national, government-owned, not-for-profit organisation

About us

What we do

We develop and deliver a range of digital health and telehealth services

Objective

To provide every Australian with 24/7 access to the trusted information and advice they need to manage their own health and wellbeing

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Australian Health Thesaurus (AHT)• Medical, health and human services related concepts

• Reflects the current Australian health and human services environments

• Originally developed by Dept. of Health and Ageing (DOHA)

• Based on Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

• Updated regularly to reflect;• user analytics, eg Google Analytics search terms• current news developments, eg. Zika virus• environmental research/analysis eg. Aged care

• Consumer focused

How do we use the AHT?

Classification purposes

Relevance in search results

Auto-suggestion

Displaying contextual

elements on sites

Manage medicines data

Data sources

• Australian Health Thesaurus (AHT)

• Australian Medicines Terminology (AMT)

• Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)

• Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG)

• Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)

• GuildLink

• Pill images

• Consumer Medicine Information leaflets

• DrugBank

Data linkages -The Australian

Health Thesaurus

(AHT)

Healthdirect MedicinesData sources

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HealthdirectTerminology

Service

Australian Health

Thesaurus

TGA

Drugbank

AMT

GuildLink

PBS

Mappings in Terminology Service

TGA

Medicinal Product

Medicinal Product

Unit of Use

Medicinal Product

Pack

Trade Product

Trade Product Unit

of Use

Trade Product Pack

ContaineredTrade

Product Pack

AHT

AMT

GuildLink

DrugBank

PBS

AHT use for research

• Consumer language

• Aligned to medical, clinical and government

• Forms a bridge between them

• Can be used for;

• Surveys

• Interviews

• Transcripts

Links

Healthdirect

https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/

Healthdirect medicines

https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/medicines

AHT - general

https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/australian-health-thesaurus

Australian Health Thesaurus

http://thesaurus.healthdirect.org.au/aht.html

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Questions?

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• Contact: james.humffray@healthdirect.org.au

• Website:

https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/