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Government Analytics, Healthcare IT

Analytics consolidates hospital data in Australia

By Adrienne Valdez | 23 May 2011

The Queensland Government’s health department upgraded the Queensland Health Hospital Performance site to simplify hospital performance data and make it more easily accessible for users.

The site will collate existing information into specific, easy-to-find areas for the state’s 27 reporting hospitals as opposed to having information both online as well as in quarterly reports.

The Queensland Health Hospital Performance site, designed and built in-house to minimise costs, brings together 40 data fields in nine categories which were previously available on a range of information websites into a single destination.

It contains comparisons to national indicators, reports on emergency department data, how hospitals are performing in elective surgery, in emergency departments, the number of people that are waiting, and the number of people that came to hospital over a certain period of time.

This provides easier and timelier access to hospital-level data across the most significant service delivery indicators, presenting a complete and up-to-date picture of a local hospital’s activity and performance.

Now it’s easier for users to find their page relating to their particular hospital and view the information in one place rather than looking in multiple sources as they had to in the past. The response was astounding as the new site had more than 1500 hits within approximately 18 hours of going live.

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