Just reaching out to the collective knowledge of the network. At MidCentral, we would like to develop a data & analytics strategy in the New Year and would like an external facilitator or consultant to help us in its development.
The aim is to consider the next five years for Data and Analytics across the DHB and beyond the narrow bounds of the Hospital and, with the local PHO, stretch into the wider community. The third part will be to link with NGO and join the wider inter-sectorial cooperation that is occurring locally.
This is all consistent with the DHB strategy to focus on health and not illness and as well it fits with the first version of the overall DHB digital strategy Te Awa, named after the river that runs through the DHB. Will Reedy was a great help for the development of the main digital strategy. Following from this really positive experience, we are wondering if there is someone similar to help with developing a data and analytics strategy that anyone on the network knows of or has had experience of working with?
Many thanks
Greig
Dr Greig Russell
Principal Medical Information Officer
MidCentral DHB
Glen Willoughby has been working on something similar for us at Counties Manukau – I have copied him into this email however I believe you do already know him.
Kind regards,
Jenny
Jenny Pooley
IS Clinical Change Manager
Healthy Together 2020
Technology I Hospital Services
Auckland DHB is certainly hiring people with this sort of direction in their job titles, Greig.
@eras, @greg, @mdotchin, @wstanbrook, could you shed some light on this? Their CIO (Shayne Tong) I’m sure would love to talk to you about it, but he is a busy chap and challenging to pin down.
Hey Greig.
We have done a huge analytics projecy in our DHB (Taranaki), wth a few facilitators helping us with our Data Warehouse, and Microsoft’s partners to set up the analytics layer.
Would you like to come for a visit one day ? I can arrange it if youwould like.
I am at Yariv.Doron@tdhb.org.nz
I would be very grateful for the opportunity to visit. I have just come back to work after a wonderful summer break. When I get myself organized, I will be in touch.
sorry just realised I’ve been tagged in here. At ADHB we’ve started looking at streamlining our data needs too. New group is being set up under the direction of Ali Khan (formerly of Waitemata DHB) as I write this. So it’s a bit of “watch this space” for us.
My particular pet topic is that fact that we’ve had this continued “divorce” of admin data (under the purview of Business Intelligence) from clinical data (multiple Access databases all over the DHB with no single oversight and in variable state of (non-) maintenance) … and really the two should be thought of together as you can’t have reliable admin data unless you get your clinical data needs in order. But that’s my personal soap box. I am not sure my DHB is THAT supportive to unite the two. Again, watch this space…
That is an oh too familiar space. Our situation is virtually identical, with the gap to the incomplete PHO data set as well.
There does not seem to be an easy solution to the multiple Access database issue. One option I saw was to move to an SQL and teach all clinicians C#, which did not go well. My pet concept is a data lake, with clinicians having individual access tools as in one of BI tools or something like R.
I like what Waitemata guys have done with QLIK and would have dearly loved to go down that path on our side of the bridge (of course we would have had to do our own mapping, but at least there would have been someone else up the road who did it before)… but no, our CIO decided to go with Power BI … because we are a “Microsoft hospital” - whatever that means!
So now we are all wondering what that will look like in practice, so we wait… and wait… and wait … and still produce Excel reports from often dubious data sources.
hi,
Taranaki has had some success with PowerBI, using HR data though. I was impressed when I went to visit.
I’m working on a very light-weight data architecture capability extension for the (Midland) region here and have drafted the attached document, if anyone wants to feedback that would be great. It’s high level thinking to guide a business case to do some of the first pieces. Data architecture thinking_v02.docx (766.6 KB)
Hope you are well. We are working on something similar at the Ministry - here is our framework (feedback welcome). It is a simplified DAMA plus some bigger picture fundamentals. We have some of the pieces this identifies but not all by any means. Great example is consent - while people are consented to collect information, we can’t re-consent, they can’t remove their consent and consents differ markedly (eg. Breast Screening).
Thank-you very much indeed. That is really helpful and I getting more aware of the value of these high “level” almost simplistic frameworks to make sure we get the balance right before a deep dive into any one.
