Posted on May 5th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
A NATIONAL document verification service intended to clamp down on fake IDs and rising identity theft has been slammed as a failure by the Auditor-General.
More than 18 months past its four-year project deadline, the $25 million IT hub intended to allow authorities to authenticate a vast range of commonly used ID documents issued by legions [...]
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Filed under: Data reporting, Documentation, Government, Information Technology, Privacy, Quality, Records Management
Posted on May 5th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
The number of patients who die during a hospital stay is an easy measure of a hospital’s quality–perhaps too easy, according to a new report in The British Medical Journal.
The shortcoming of hospital mortality ratios–used in the United States and United Kingdom to identify hospitals where more patients die than would be expected–is that they [...]
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Filed under: Data reporting, Health
Posted on April 30th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
Patient data maintained by hospitals represents a potential playground for anyone with an inclination toward fraud and theft. There are names, birth dates, Social Security numbers, insurance policy information, and banking and credit card information floating through every hospital’s cyber-halls. Because most of this data is stored in some type of electronic format, many CFOs [...]
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Posted on April 23rd, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
HUMAN Services Minister Chris Bowen was not informed of a serious glitch in Medicare’s systems involving the potential incorrect updating of up to 30,000 patient records – and nor were affected doctors – until 10 weeks after the error occurred.
Medicare is writing to 2700 medical practices to warn that 22,000 patient records will need to [...]
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Posted on April 23rd, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
A GLITCH in Medicare’s online verification system affected nearly 30,000 patient records – not 1300 – over a three-day period in February, seriously risking the health of thousands of people, Queensland Liberal Senator Sue Boyce claims.
“I understand the fault meant that some pathology test results would not have made it back to the patient’s GP, [...]
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Posted on April 23rd, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
A SOFTWARE glitch in Medicare’s systems in February has caused a major safety alert, with the agency set to notify thousands of doctors that some patient records may have been incorrectly updated during a three-day period.
Medicare told The Australian yesterday that changes to its online patient verification system after maintenance on February 6 could have [...]
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Posted on April 15th, 2010 by Catherine Obuch
All Australians should soon become accustomed to being asked ‘Are you of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin?’ when they visit a health service, following today’s release of new Australian Institute of Health and Welfare data collection guidelines.
The National best practice guidelines for collecting Indigenous status in health data sets stress that the question, ‘Are [...]
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Filed under: Data reporting, Government, Health
Posted on October 28th, 2009 by Catherine Obuch
The Data Reform project has developed draft Concept and Derived Element Definitions and Data Definitions for the new Victorian Health Integrated Minimum Dataset (VHI MDS). The VHI MDS integrates the Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset (VAED), Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset (VEMD), and Elective Surgery Information System (ESIS). While allowing for data to
be submitted in separate streams, [...]
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Posted on September 1st, 2009 by Catherine Obuch
Experts say the new, community-acquired methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) — which produces infections ranging from minor skin eruptions to loss of limbs and even death within days — needs urgent attention from health authorities.
The Health Department has told a senate committee that poor data and a lack of connected technology meant information on the spread [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2009 by Catherine Obuch
The State Government’s Your hospitals report has outlined that the Victorian hospital system failed to met five of it’s nine performance goals for the second half of 2008.
To read more http://www.theage.com.au/national/hospital-system-fails-to-meet-targets-20090717-dnqe.html
Or to read the report
http://www.health.vic.gov.au/yourhospitals/download.htm
(Picture courtesy www.abc.net.au)
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