Health Information Services
Health Information Services manages patient information relating to patient care. Services provided included:
Medical record management
- Management of the medical record - scanned medical record & historic paper records
- Management of paper and electronic forms
- Management of health information policies, eg. patient privacy, patient registration, record access
Transcription
- Typing of Specialist Clinic letters and operation reports
Information release
- Release of information to external health care providers for ongoing patient care
- Access to records under the Freedom of Information Act
- Provide subpoenaed medical records to court
Clinical coding and patient data
- Coding of inpatient records using ICD-10-AM
- Provide casemix and DRG data to management and clinical units
- Auditing of Casemix data
- Data maintenance and reporting of patient information to the Department of Health
- Reporting of cancers to the Victorian Cancer Registry
Corporate records
- Management of Austin Health corporate records
Data & Submissions
- Maintain and support the entry and integrity of patient related data on the hospitals’ in-house applications, including the Victorian Admitted Episode Dataset (VAED), the Elective Services Information System (ESIS), the Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset (VEMD) and Non-admitted Services (VINAH).