As pressure on hospital systems builds, health services are increasingly turning to more advanced data analytics to inform system evaluation and redesign, improve patient flow and deliver better patient outcomes.
... Read more...VAHI is partnering with the Australian Orthopaedic Association, the Florey Institute, Monash University, Safer Care Victoria and the Department of Health and Human Services to pilot four innovative and scalable initiatives aimed at better understanding how patient-reported outcomes (PROs) can be... Read more...
How should Victoria be assessing if quality and safety has improved in health services? That was the question VAHI asked its Strategic Advisory Committee at their meeting in August.
... Read more...The first public report on voluntary assisted dying tabled in Parliament today details a smooth transition to the new law.
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Ahead of GIANT STEPS 2019 we caught up with one of our speakers, Dr Zoe Wainer, Head of Public Health and Medical Director at Bupa, to learn about how sex differences are critical to all aspects of healthcare and to find out what’s in store for her session.
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- Safety cultures
Two Safer Care Victoria fellows have been marked as researchers to watch, after receiving national recognition for research that will improve outcomes for mothers and babies.
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- Maternity and newborn
When patients are unexpectedly harmed or die in a health service, a team of staff come together to find out what happened, why, and how to prevent it from happening again.
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- Incident response/review
Last month, VAHI was pleased to resume provision of monthly Performance Indicators for Coding Quality (PICQ®) numerator reports to public hospitals.
... Read more...Victorian public health services that are not using the Victorian Health Incident Management System (VHIMS) Central Solution for incident reporting are now considering their options for procuring a new incident and feedback management system.
... Read more...VAHI has begun looking for a provider to administer the Victorian Healthcare Experience Survey (VHES) program from 2020 onwards. The end of the current contract in June 2020 presents an opportunity to put in place new arrangements with a focus on improving the program.
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