Almost 24 months after the go-live of the shared Electronic Medical Record (EMR), the Parkville Precinct Health Services continue to prioritise Digital Health and Transformation.

This year, the precinct engaged the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) to validate their digital maturity after the implementation of their shared Parkville EMR.

The Parkville Precinct health services completed both their Inpatient and Outpatient Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) assessments – an 8-stage model aimed to measure clinical outcomes, patient engagement and clinician use of EMR technology.

All four hospital received a stage 6 validation for both their inpatient and outpatient EMRAM, with RCH also receiving a stage 7 for its outpatient EMRAM.

Please join Laura, Sofie and Matt to discuss the journey to level 6 & 7 for the Parkville Precinct, focusing on the role of Health Information Managers in largescale EMR digital transformation initiatives. If you are working on, planning, or considering a transformation of your hospital’s healthcare records, you won’t want to miss this opportunity!

WHEN: Friday, 5 August 2022, 12.00 – 1.00pm AEST

McKinsey Global Institute’s “The future of work after COVID-19” identifies 3 increasing trends as a direct result of the pandemic. From increasing and sustained remote work for 3+ days per week, to digitisation and automation.

The last 2 years have impacted society and business in profound ways, creating new challenges and opportunities for those responsible for Records and Information Management (RIM).

1.  What a post pandemic world looks like in the context of RIM

2.  How businesses are responding to changing work environments

3.  How technology and AI are transforming records management

4.  Finding better ways to manage information for compliance, productivity, discovery and accuracy

Speaker Bio’s

Matt Griffiths, Director Portfolio & Solutions

Matt is a passionate product leader with over 20 years’ experience in designing, developing and launching new products to market. He takes delight in uncovering and delivering products and solutions through the intersection of technology and customer experience. Matt’s diverse background and industry experience allows him to uniquely understand customer problems and deliver solutions that add value.

Glen McKay, State General Manager

Glen is a highly motivated & driven Innovator & leader; bringing to life proven best practices that improve organisations, grow categories, increase customer relevance and produce a sustainable competitive advantage.

Overview

HIMS have been leaders in the adoption of activity-based funding and their contributions include appropriate classification systems, coding quality and timeliness, design of new classifications, research on case-mix classifications, data collection, clinical costing systems, data management and standards. Operationally, coding and other health record data drives diagnosis-related groups and we have forged significant advances here.

Dr Sheree Lloyd will describe her involvement, share stories from history and reflect on how we might best be able to contribute to leadership in this domain now and into the future.

Overview

Google “quotes on leadership” and you can be sucked down a rabbit hole of memes citing such luminaries as Anonymous, Michael Jordan, Bill Gates and JFK. Everyone loves a good quote and an even better meme but Leadership is such a complex, important and many-headed beast that to summarise it in a sentence or two let alone a one hour webinar is a little short of a fantasy.

However, in this Webinar, Cameron will summarise some of the techniques, tips and tricks he has used during his 32-year career to build and optimise the Teams he has led and give the viewer a grab bag of practical examples to use in their workplace and maybe even have some fun along the road.

About the speaker

Cameron Barnes is the National Manager of Health Information Services for St Vincent’s Health Australia. His career so far has spanned 32 years in a variety of leadership and management roles in both the Public and Private sector as well as consultancy roles nationally and internationally. Cameron has a Bachelor of Applied Science in MRA, a Master of Health Administration and has completed Leadership courses at ACU, La Trobe University and Melbourne Business School.

HIMAA is partnering with Jean Eaton of Information Managers to bring you and/or your clinic staff a custom, online workshop.

We know the most common types of privacy breaches. Do you have a written playbook with step-by-step instructions on how to respond to a privacy breach? Have you rehearsed this with your team?

In this 75-minute interactive workshop, you will participate in a Table-Top Privacy Breach Fire Drill to better prepared to respond to a privacy breach in your practice. Come prepared to take an active role in the following scenarios.

• Physical paper patient reports found in the parking lot
• Snooping employee spotted by clinic staff
• Privacy complaint to the IPC

Jean will discuss real-life scenarios and privacy breach offences that demonstrate what can go wrong – and what you should do instead. There will be time for live Q&A.

Jean helps independent healthcare practices with practice administration, privacy awareness, privacy breach management, and legislated regulation compliance in Canada that are transferable to the Australian Setting

Health information is pivotal at the point-of-care for clinical management and service provision for our consumers, as well as for service monitoring, planning and management.

This Health Information Governance Framework has been developed to articulate the management of health information across NorthWestern Mental Health (NWMH)*. This framework acts as a footprint for the governance of health information across the organisational structures, partnerships, service settings and differing levels of health service digitisation.

With advancements in digital health across Victoria and Australia, appropriate governance of the collection, use and access of patient and consumer health information is more pertinent than ever to meet the growing demands for service delivery and service monitoring in a complex environment.

This is especially important for NWMH as services move to implement significant changes introduced for the mental health space in the very near future.

*NWMH is a public mental health service for people living in northern and western metropolitan Melbourne. Services are delivered through six programs spanning 32 sites across the northern and western suburbs of Melbourne in partnership with Melbourne Health, Northern Health, and Western Health

Join us on 9 February 2022 when Vicki Bennett shares her insights into Australia’s National Health Information System and the work of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Vicki will look at:

• the importance of data analysis to inform health care planning
• the role of data in chronic disease management
• why we need to capture robust data across time and care setting

and the role of health information managers and clinical coder at a health service to ensure data integrity for sustainable healthcare funding and planning.

Vicki is the Head of the Metadata and Classifications Unit at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, where she has held a number of different roles over the past 14 years. She has also lectured at a range of Australian universities and is passionate about ensuring that good health information is used to improve health outcomes for all.

Vicki has a degree in Health Information Management, and a Masters in Health Informatics and has had a diverse career both domestically and internationally. She has worked extensively across the Pacific over the past 20 years and has been appointed as an Advisor to the Pacific Health Information Network Board. She is on the Board of the Health Information Management Association of Australia and is the President Elect for the International Federation of Health Information Management Associations.

Driving Clinical Documentation and Data Integrity (CDI) continues to be a key function of Health Information Managers, Clinical Coders and Clinical Documentation Specialists alike.

As health information professionals we are aware that documentation practices may vary according to:

• the nature and use of the document
• who is interacting with the record and unit or specialty the type of record, and
• who has responsibility for documenting care and episode information.

Overarching documentation requirements are detailed in Actions 1.16, 1.17, 1.18 and Action 6.11 and of the National Safety & Quality Healthcare Standards (NSQHS). In this webinar, we will consider the clinical documentation practices and requirements outlined in NSQHS as well as the Good Medical Practice Guideline and Professional Practice Guidelines for Nurses and Allied Health Staff.

In addition to considering these guidelines, the webinar focuses on supporting engagement and quality documentation across the record and within units through specific standards alignment and appreciation of professional practice guidelines that underpin clinician documentation practices. This information will be discussed in the context of specific documents or forms, and illustrate how we can use awareness of standards and guidelines to support ongoing engagement with CDI programs and embed improvement in clinical practice.

Do not miss out on this webinar on 13 October 2021 that covers the core competence in data, records management, standards and governance as they relate to information management.

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are the key digital health technology in the increasingly diversifying modes of health care delivery.  Accurate, accessible, consistent and contemporaneous health record information is central to the success of telehealth, Zoom consults in primary and tertiary health care. Furthermore, consistent modes of data collection in EHRs has the potential to inform the interoperability with new technologies such as wearables and post discharge care applications.

Health Information professionals have a strong and enduring interaction with health care records and large body of knowledge that can be brought to bear on the ongoing transformation of EHRs and evolving technologies.

Heather Grain notes that EHRs, like their paper based and digitally based forebears need structure.  She shares that the discoveries from the UK and Europe show that where that structure is built upon a consistent understanding of the data in the record the record itself gains power.

Heather brings her expert knowledge to this important area of Health Information Management and provides insights into the tool “openEHR” which is used internationally to:

• define the content of health records
• reduce software development time
• information exchange errors and expenses.

This webinar will also consider the Clinical Knowledge Manager which is an open source tool used by many countries (including Australia) as the underpinning approach innovations such as MyHealthRecord.   Heather will reflect on how this approach has resulted in data that is consistent and comparable but still flexible and displayed in ways which fit the needs of each individual use case; ultimately this enables EHRs which can use data like lego to build what is needed.

Join Heather Grain and HIMAA on 15 September 2021 and learn the future of EHR and health data design, and how to access and use these standards and tools.

Policy work is part of the role of many health information managers. This free webinar will discuss good practices in developing and reviewing policies, procedures, and guidelines. How can we consult stakeholders efficiently to understand the best balance between standards, compliance, and operational practicalities? How can we draft texts so they’re concise, unambiguous, and easy to read? What’s the best mechanism to monitor the implementation of new requirements and monitor the effectiveness of policy texts? The webinar will help HIMAA understand its members’ policy skills needs, to inform the planning of a professional development workshop later this year.

The webinar will be led by Dr. Kai Jensen of PolicyTrain, a consultant, editor and trainer, and editor who specialises in policy improvement. Kai has worked extensively with higher education institutions and other organisations, such as health profession peak bodies, to make organisational policies more effective.

Health Information Managers and Clinical Coders have unique skill sets that are fundamental to accurate funding of health care. Documentation improvement is a core skill we apply to identify data and documentation improvement opportunities. We achieve enhanced documentation integrity through audit, education, coding queries, and clinician engagement.

Our expertise in data management, data quality, and clinical information abstraction contributes to the future of sustainable, efficient health care funding and the viability of the Activity Based Funding (ABF) model. The importance of clinical documentation to funding and safe care has resulted in the emergence of the Clinical Documentation Specialist (CDS) as a key HIS team member.

To enhance our understanding of how to leverage our expertise in documentation improvement programs the HIMAA CDI Webinar Series will run over the next 12 months. We will consider how we can adapt our existing clinician relationships, apply our knowledge of the health care system, data collections, and funding models to respond to the need for sustainable CDI programs.

The first in its CDI Series, Operational CDI will look at the HIM/Coder value proposition, the CDI points of intersection with the wider health system, and aspects of HIS oversight in CDI programs. It will explore how and where CDI is placed and can be leveraged across your workplace.

We hope to see you on 23 July 2021 and find out what else you would like to see in this Series!