Impact of data sources and ascertainment methods on reporting paediatric genetic condition prevalence: A scoping review.

Genetic conditions significantly impact health and contribute to paediatric morbidity and mortality. Despite advancements, accurate estimation of the burden of genetic conditions remains complex. To determine how different data sources and ascertainment methods influence the prevalence of paediatric monogenic and chromosomal conditions in Australia and internationally.

Health information management professionals' investigator involvement in research: barriers and facilitators.

Background: Research underpins and informs a profession's growth. Research and practice have a fundamental relationship involving knowledge production and its applications to a profession's work.

Objectives: To investigate health information management professionals': interest in investigator involvement in research; exposure to, or opportunity for, research investigator involvement; areas of research interest; barriers to research investigator involvement.

Health information management students' work-integrated learning (professional practice placements): Where do they go and what do they do?

Work-integrated learning (WIL) is integral to most health disciplines' profession-qualifying degree programs. To analyse the categories, locales and foci of final-year (capstone), health information management professional practice (WIL) placements, 2012-2021, at La Trobe University, Australia. A documentary analysis of 614 placement agency proposals, 2012-2021, interrogated multiple characteristics: agency type, placement (sub-) category (WIL model), project type, agency-required student capabilities, intended learning outcomes.

Researchers' perceptions of the trustworthiness, for reuse purposes, of government health data in Victoria, Australia: Implications for policy and practice.

In 2022 the Australian Data Availability and Transparency Act (DATA) commenced, enabling accredited "data users" to access data from "accredited data service providers." However, the DATA Scheme lacks guidance on "trustworthiness" of the data to be utilised for reuse purposes. : To determine: (i) Do researchers using government health datasets trust the data? (ii) What factors influence their perceptions of data trustworthiness? and (iii) What are the implications for government and data custodians? Authors of published studies (2008-2020) that utilised Victorian government health datasets were surveyed via a case study approach.

The knowledge and reuse practices of researchers utilising government health information assets, Victoria, Australia, 2008-2020.

Background: Using government health datasets for secondary purposes is widespread; however, little is known on researchers' knowledge and reuse practices within Australia.

Objectives: To explore researchers' knowledge and experience of governance processes, and their data reuse practices, when using Victorian government health datasets for research between 2008-2020.

Method: A cross-sectional quantitative survey was conducted with authors who utilised selected Victorian, Australia, government health datasets for peer-reviewed research published between 2008-2020.

Workforce survey of Australian health information management graduates, 2017-2021: A 5-year follow-on study.

Employment outcomes of La Trobe University's 2012-2016 health information manager (HIM) graduate cohort were reported previously. To identify the 2017-2021 Australia-based, graduate HIMs' early career employment experiences; identify employment roles and destinations; investigate knowledge and skill sets utilised in professional performance; and compare outcomes with the previous study. A cross-sectional design was utilised.

The applications of Australian-coded ICD-10 and ICD-10-AM data in research: A scoping review of the literature.

Australia uses the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) for mortality coding and its Australian Modification, ICD-10-AM, for morbidity coding. The ICD underpins surveillance (population health, mortality), health planning and research (clinical, epidemiological and others). ICD-10-AM also supports activity-based funding, thereby propelling realignment of the foci of clinical coding and, potentially, coded data's research utility.

A documentary analysis of Victorian Government health information assets' websites to identify availability of documentation for data sharing and reuse in Australia.

Background: Health data sharing is important for monitoring diseases, policy and practice, and planning health services. If health data are used for secondary purposes, information needs to be provided to assist in reuse.

Objectives: To review government health information asset websites to ascertain the extent of readily available, explanatory documentation for researcher sharing and reuse of these data.

Defining career success: A cross-sectional analysis of health information managers' perceptions.

Background: Career success can be defined as the accomplishment of desirable outcomes in an individual's work experiences. It can be divided into objective and subjective career success. Objective success refers to tangible and measurable outcomes such as promotions and position titles.

Professional identity and workplace motivation: A case study of health information managers.

Background: The professional identity and motivation of qualified health information managers (HIMs) is largely unexplored.

Objectives: A larger study has investigated the motivators of HIMs in the construction of their professional identity and associated relationships to job satisfaction and engagement with their profession. The aims of this component of the study were to: (i) identify and analyse the characteristics of members of the profession who have different motivation profiles; (ii) obtain HIMs' perspectives on their professional identity; and (iii) measure correlation between HIMs' professional identity and different motivating factors.

The suitability of government health information assets for secondary use in research: A fit-for-purpose analysis.

Background: Governments have responsibility for ensuring the quality and fitness-for-purpose of personal health data provided to them. While these health information assets are used widely for research, this secondary usage has received minimal research attention.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the secondary uses, in research, of population health and administrative datasets (information assets) of the Department of Health (DoH), Victoria, Australia.

The historiography of a profession: The societal and political drivers of the health information management profession in Australia.

Health information permeates healthcare delivery from point-of-care, across the continuum of care and throughout the healthcare system's policy, population health, research, planning and funding arenas. Health information managers (HIMs) expertly manage that information. This commentary theorises the health information management profession for the first time.

A false promise of COVID-19 'big' health data? Health data integrity and the ethics and realities of Australia's health information management practice.

: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has precipitated an unprecedented volume of medical research. Articles reporting two studies were recently retracted from prestigious journals for reasons including the (thus far) unverifiable provenance of data. This commentary adopts a health information management lens to focus on aspects of data in one of the studies (investigating the use of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19).

An investigation of the status and maturity of hospitals' health information governance in Victoria, Australia.

Background: Health information governance (IG) in Australian hospitals was hitherto unexplored.

Objectives: To determine hospitals' health IG status and maturity in Victoria, Australia, identify drivers and barriers affecting IG adoption, examine electronic health data breach response plan usage and assess employees' electronic data breach awareness.

Method: Mixed-methods descriptive study utilising an online survey of directors - clinical/health information services and chief health information managers (HIMs) in Victorian hospitals, ≥50 beds.

Workforce survey of Australian graduate health information managers: Employability, employment, and knowledge and skills used in the workplace.

Background: Employability, employment destinations and utilisation of knowledge-skill domains of new graduate health information managers (HIMs) have not been explored.

Objectives: To capture the timing from course completion to employment and employment locations of a 5-year cohort of health information management graduates of La Trobe University, Australia, in 2017-2018; identify professional knowledge and skills used by the graduates in executing their roles; and map these to four domains of the health information management curriculum.

Method: A mixed-methods descriptive study utilising a survey investigated early career pathways of new graduates of health information management courses from 2012 to 2016.

The quality of medical record documentation and External cause of fall injury coding in a tertiary teaching hospital.

This paper reviews the documentation and coding of External causes of admitted fall cases in a major hospital. Intensive analysis of a random selection of 100 medical records included blind re-coding in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Fifth Edition for External causes to ascertain whether: (i) the medical records contained sufficient information for assignment of specific External cause codes; and (ii) the most appropriate External cause codes were assigned per available documentation. Comparison of the hospital data with the state-wide Victorian Admitted Episodes Database (VAED) data on frequency of use of External cause codes revealed that the index hospital, a major trauma centre, treated comparatively more falls involving steps, stairs and ladders.

A comparison of state and national Australian data on external cause of injury due to falls.

Falls are the leading cause of hospital-treated injuries in Australia. Injury surveillance data are analysed to identify common causes and types of fall injuries, risk factors for particular activities, location of injury occurrence, and age groups at risk of injury. External cause of injury data include cause of injury, place of occurrence, and activity when injured.

Capture and documentation of coded data on adverse drug reactions: an overview.

Allergic responses to prescription drugs are largely preventable, and incur significant cost to the community both financially and in terms of healthcare outcomes. The capacity to minimise the effects of repeated events rests predominantly with the reliability of allergy documentation in medical records and computerised physician order entry systems (CPOES) with decision support such as allergy alerts. This paper presents an overview of the nature and extent of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in Australia and other developed countries, a discussion and evaluation of strategies which have been devised to address this issue, and a commentary on the role of coded data in informing this patient safety issue.

The coding masterpiece: a framework for the formal processes and pathways of health classification.

This article empirically defines the formal pathways and processes that enable and frame hospital clinical classification in an activity-based funding environment. These structured actions include: learning and training; abstracting; clinical knowledge locating and confirming; coder-doctor communication; coder-coder communication; the complicated sub-set of code searching and decision-making processes that constitute practical clinical 'coding'; allocation to diagnosis-related groups; confirmation of financial reimbursement; auditing; and quality management practices to ensure the integrity of the multiple outputs and outcomes of clinical coding. An analogy of these complex, exacting, and knowledge-dense work practices is made with the 20th century avant-garde art movement of Cubism: the creation of Pablo Picasso's The three musicians is used as a metaphor for clinical/health classification work.

Professional Practice and Innovation: The Coding Masterpiece: A Framework for the Formal Pathways and Processes of Health Classification.

This article empirically defines the formal pathways and processes that enable and frame hospital clinical classification in an activity-based funding environment. These structured actions include: learning and training; abstracting; clinical knowledge locating and confirming; coder-doctor communication; coder-coder communication; the complicated sub-set of code searching and decision-making processes that constitute practical clinical 'coding'; allocation to diagnosis-related groups; confirmation of financial reimbursement; auditing; and quality management practices to ensure the integrity of the multiple outputs and outcomes of clinical coding. An analogy of these complex, exacting, and knowledge-dense work practices is made with the 20th century avant-garde art movement of Cubism: the creation of Pablo Picasso's The three musicians is used as a metaphor for clinical/health classification work.

The preparedness of hospital Health Information Services for system failures due to internal disasters.

The unimpeded functioning of hospital Health Information Services (HIS) is essential for patient care, clinical governance, organisational performance measurement, funding and research. In an investigation of hospital Health Information Services' preparedness for internal disasters, all hospitals in the state of Victoria with the following characteristics were surveyed: they have a Health Information Service/ Department; there is a Manager of the Health Information Service/Department; and their inpatient capacity is greater than 80 beds. Fifty percent of the respondents have experienced an internal disaster within the past decade, the majority affecting the Health Information Service.