[chai-t] Re: August meeting plans!
- From: "Bain, Christopher Ashley (Dir Health Informatics)" <Christopher.Bain-Informatics@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <chai-t@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 08:27:13 +1000
How is Rajesh from St V’s going by the way ?
Enjoying himself ?
I’m starting to feel like one of those old footy coaches whose players start
coaching “against” them ? J
CB
From: chai-t-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:chai-t-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Mac Manus, Christopher
Sent: Thursday, 9 August 2012 08:19
To: chai-t@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [chai-t] Re: August meeting plans!
Thanks William. Yes, you are correct in that I am indeed neck-deep in DW
development. These things take time!
Unfortunately I cannot attend the next catch-up, but Lucy will be able to.
Cheers,
Chris
From: chai-t-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:chai-t-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Rose William
Sent: Tuesday, 7 August 2012 8:28 AM
To: chai-t@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [chai-t] August meeting plans!
Hi all,
My belated thanks to those who made the trek in July: I think the sunny room
was an advantage. We spent a fair bit of time on the costing & revenue
dashboard Simon has been working on at Peter Mac, and then switched to data
mining & analytics, then ABF.
I think the consensus is that there is a lot of potential in the data mining &
analytics area, but it is hard to find ways to get to that in the constant
stream of pressing requirements. So I was very interested to hear that the
elusive Ray from Austin has built a better mousetrap WIES estimator, as this is
one of those things that frustrates me with our reporting.
It was also interesting to hear about people's experience so far with ABF and
NWAU calculation, particularly the idea that under certain circumstances
particularly with private patients the initial calculation of NWAU could lead
to negative NWAU for the episode (!!!). If anyone has a worked example of this,
I'm keen to see how this can come up.
Last week I was at HIC in Sydney, and while I focussed on talks about NLP and
data analysis, there was quite a lot of stuff presented. Some of the topics I
think might be interesting to the group are:
* NSW Bureau of Health Information - at HIC and earlier this year at
DG2012 I saw quite a few examples of the kind of work they do at BHI, and it
made me think a more detailed review of what they produce might yield some
interesting ideas on what were sensible things to report and ways to present it
for Victoria.
* iDASH - another lavishly funded NCBC initiative that is providing a
platform for cross-organisational de-identified data sharing and analysis,
somewhat similar to BioGrid who live locally. One tidbit from the iDASH talk
was the idea of patients whose records were aggregated for clinical research
being able to view, PCEHR-style, a list of the projects to which their "data
altruism" had contributed.
* Semantic search - I've been tinkering with ordinary web search engines
for a bit, and plan to try to run one over our typed letters, path reports and
DI reports, plus coding data. The idea is to have a Google-like front-end to
locating encounters, patients or tests by keywords, which I think might be an
alternative way of opening up access to clinicians / HIMs. The semantic search
work (e.g. CSIRO, NICTA locally) extends this by mixing in SNOMED-CT and NLP to
improve precision and recall over simple keywords.
* NLP for content extraction - not presented, but mentioned in
conversation with Hanna from NICTA, was that someone at Peter Mac has been
working on a dashboard for aspergillus surveillance, by automatically
classifying microbiology reports. I am slightly miffed that I find out about
this from someone based in Canberra at a conference in Sydney, but mostly
excited to go chase up some more. The possibilities for meaningful clinical
reporting increase significantly if these techniques can be rolled out more
widely.
Apart from stuff I'm chasing, though, I'd like to hear about a few of the
things happening around the traps too! Last I heard:
* Chris MacManus was neck-deep in a single-handed SQL2012 data warehouse
rollout -- Chris, are you still alive? Want to tell us what's going on?
Commiserate?
* Felicity and Sweta were similarly getting to work on their own
reporting strategy - any progress?
* Ray "Mr Elusive" Robinson from Austin gets regularly mentioned in
connection with skunkworks development at Austin, but doesn't get to come along
- Peter: can we come to you?
* Anthony Gust has a secret stash of SAS code he uses to do reporting
things that SQL nerds can only dream of - Anthony/Chris: are these things that
you can demo?
* David Stephens thought he might be able to demo meercats in addition to
the technological wonders of the new RCH.
* Jenny has already done a demo, but has so many ideas I'm sure there is
more to see.
* Rajesh and Steve from St Vincents have been very quiet so far, which
means they are working on something big. Very BIG.
So with that in mind, the next meeting date is August 17th, at 3pm, at Peter
Mac Research Meeting Room 2, unless someone else wants to have it at their
place.
Suggestions welcome for the agenda!
Kind regards,
William Rose
Business Intelligence Manager
Information Management
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