Study of the Health Information/ Informatics workforce

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1. Which case study site are you working in?

Metro South Health Service District (QLD)

Far West Local Health District (NSW)

Barwon Health (VIC)

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2. What is the name of the organisation in which you are PRIMARILY employed? If you received your email direct from HWA / HCA you need not answer this question.

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3. What is your job title?

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4. As defined in the covering email, would you consider yourself to be part of the ‘Health Information/Informatics’ workforce?

Yes

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5. If you do not consider yourself to be part of the 'Health Information/informatics' Workforce, how would you classify yourself?

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6. In the last two (2) weeks, how many hours did you spend performing any of the following health information functions? (Please answer to the nearest hour)

SYSTEMS & ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE - Develop, implement and manage information and organisational systems and technologies

HEALTH INFORMATION EDUCATION / TRAINING - Contribute to and influence professional competencies, course development and professional network forums. Direct training of the workforce for purposes such as changing work practices.

REPORTING - Monitor and ensure compliance with ethical, legal, regulatory and best practice standards, and to inform ongoing business requirements.

POLICY & PRACTICE - Develop and promote best practice standards for healthcare information and ensure alignment with Australian Healthcare standards.

INFOSTRUCTURE - Support system interoperability and architecture.

TECHNOLOGIES - Develop hardware and software solutions that facilitate and optimise the capture and use of electronic data and health information

DECISION SUPPORT & KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT - Access to knowledge to inform point of care decision making and streamline clinical workflow.

ANALYSIS & RESEARCH - Retrieve and analyse information to identify trends, benchmark and promote best practice.

CLASSIFICATION & CODING - Capture and classify primary data to inform patient care and public health.

TERMINIOLOGY & KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING - Deliver source of evidence-based knowledge within the context of workflow and help create new evidence through delivery outcomes.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT - Manage the impact of change on the workforce due to Information System implementation.

INFORMATION EXCHANGE & COMMUNICATION - Support information exchange between clinical and non clinical staff, and between clinical and non clinical health systems.

DATA MANAGEMENT & RECORDS - Capture information about a consumer and their interactions with the healthcare system and managing that information.

CLINICAL PRACTICE - Use information science and technology in the provision of patient care.

OTHER TYPE OF HEALTH INFORMATION FUNCTION - Please specify nature of this work in the next question

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7. If you allocated hours to the 'OTHER' option in the above question, please specify what other types of health information / informatics tasks / functions you performed.

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8. How many hours did you work in total in the last two (2) weeks?

Hours

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9. In the last two (2) weeks, in which of the following areas of non health information/informatics work did you work? (Please tick all appropriate boxes)

Clinical services

Public health

Administration

Education / Training (not in health information area)

Research

Personal development

None

Other (please specify)

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10. In which of the following types of services have you worked in the last two (2) weeks? (Please tick all appropriate boxes)

Hospital / acute care services

Outpatient services

Diagnostic services

General medical practice

Community health services

Community pharmacy

Other primary health care

Mental health services (hospital or community)

Aged care (residential or community)

Population health services

Administration/policy areas

Other (please specify)

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11. What qualification(s) (if any) do you hold that are relevant to working in the Health Information / Informatics workforce? (Please provide details)

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12. Where did you obtain your most recent Health Information/Informatics relevant qualification? If in Australia, please specify state or territory. If overseas please specify country.

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13. In what year did you obtain your most recent Health Information/Informatics qualification?

year

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14. What Health Information/Informatics related professional development (education or training) has best prepared you for performing your work?

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15. Looking to the future, what are the three most important skills you must learn to continue to be effective in your job?

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16. What would be the best way to obtain these skills? (Please tick only one, the most appropriate box)

On the job training / planned work rotations

Short in-service courses

External postgraduate courses

Undergraduate course

No new skills required

Other (please specify)

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17. What is your gender?

Female

Male

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18. In what year were you born?

Year

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19. How many years have you been working in the health industry?

Number of years

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20. How many years have you been working in the health information / informatics workforce?

Number of years

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21. We would like to know the knowledge and skills you require to carry out your work. Please identify from the list of competencies below those which you currently use to perform your health information-related work. (Please select all appropriate boxes)

Manage risks to information

Develop models for processing new data and information

Identify and specify data and information requirements

Collect and validate data and information

Manage the technical requirements of data and information storage and retrieval

Analyse data and information and present outputs of analysis

Monitor, evaluate and improve the management of data and information

Comply with an external audit of data and information

Produce coded clinical data

Prepare, conduct and report the results of a clinical coding audit

Capture, organise and disseminate information and knowledge

Appraise information and knowledge resources

Promote and facilitate the use of information and knowledge

Identify the needs of clinicians, patients and the public for communication, information and knowledge systems

Develop a specification for communication, information and knowledge systems to meet the needs of clinicians, patients and the public

Facilitate the development of communication, information and knowledge systems to meet the needs of an agreed specification

Support the healthcare workforce to use/access information and knowledge

Facilitate, and clinically validate, the implementation, evaluation and improvement of communication, information and knowledge systems to meet the needs of clinicians, patients and the public

Facilitate the clinical audit process

Search for clinical information and evidence according to an accepted methodology

Critically appraise clinical information and evidence

Develop evidence-based clinical guidelines

None of the above

Other (please specify)Are there skills and knowledge you think is required that is not in the list above? Please specify below any missing skills / knowledge.

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1. Which case study site are you working in?

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2. What is the name of the organisation in which you are PRIMARILY employed? If you received your email direct from HWA / HCA you need not answer this question.

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3. What is your job title?

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4. As defined in the covering email, would you consider yourself to be part of the ‘Health Information/Informatics’ workforce?

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5. If you do not consider yourself to be part of the 'Health Information/informatics' Workforce, how would you classify yourself?

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6. In the last two (2) weeks, how many hours did you spend performing any of the following health information functions? (Please answer to the nearest hour)

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7. If you allocated hours to the 'OTHER' option in the above question, please specify what other types of health information / informatics tasks / functions you performed.

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8. How many hours did you work in total in the last two (2) weeks?

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9. In the last two (2) weeks, in which of the following areas of non health information/informatics work did you work? (Please tick all appropriate boxes)

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10. In which of the following types of services have you worked in the last two (2) weeks? (Please tick all appropriate boxes)

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11. What qualification(s) (if any) do you hold that are relevant to working in the Health Information / Informatics workforce? (Please provide details)

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12. Where did you obtain your most recent Health Information/Informatics relevant qualification? If in Australia, please specify state or territory. If overseas please specify country.

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13. In what year did you obtain your most recent Health Information/Informatics qualification?

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14. What Health Information/Informatics related professional development (education or training) has best prepared you for performing your work?

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15. Looking to the future, what are the three most important skills you must learn to continue to be effective in your job?

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16. What would be the best way to obtain these skills? (Please tick only one, the most appropriate box)

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17. What is your gender?

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18. In what year were you born?

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19. How many years have you been working in the health industry?

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20. How many years have you been working in the health information / informatics workforce?

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21. We would like to know the knowledge and skills you require to carry out your work. Please identify from the list of competencies below those which you currently use to perform your health information-related work. (Please select all appropriate boxes)

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22. What is your name? (please note names are only collected to allow for confirmation of respondents, data will be de-identified prior to analysis)