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Government Analytics, Healthcare IT

South Australia increases transparency in health

By Adrienne Valdez | 1 July 2011

South Australia’s Health Minister, John Hill, recently announced the use of Business Intelligence Dashboard for Emergency Departments, enabling the public to see the status of emergency departments.

The interactive data - which shows the number of patients waiting to be seen in emergency departments and the average waiting times for admission - will be updated on the Health SA website every 30 minutes.

The dashboards break down the data into seven tables and two graphs for each hospital- Royal Adelaide Hospital, Flinders Medical Centre, Lyell McEwin, Modbury, Noarlunga, the Women’s and Children’s (paediatric and women), Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Repat.

A traffic light system is also used to show the capacity of each hospital’s emergency department.

Those marked green are up to 80 per cent capacity, those marked amber are at 80-95 per cent capacity, red means a hospital is at between 95-125 per cent capacity. The highest ranking is white, which means a hospital is at and above capacity.

“I want to help remove some of the mystique around how our health system is run and inform the public about how patient flow is managed in a busy hospital environment. I don’t know of any other health system in the world - and there are certainly none in Australia - that puts up the same performance data as used by its staff for the public to examine,” Hill said in an official statement.

The data available to the public is kept separate from the data used by individual hospitals, which can further track each patient’s treatment progress.

Elective surgery waiting lists can already be accessed and in-patient data for each hospital is also expected to be available on the Health SA website in the coming weeks.

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