Hi William, I'll see you at 3pm, just me from RCH today. Cheers Tracy Tracy Horsburgh Business Analyst Decision Support The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne 50 Flemington Road Parkville Victoria 3052 T: 9345 4728 Email: tracy.horsburgh@xxxxxxxxxx Tracy Horsburgh Direct Extension: 54728 | Decision Support General Enquiries: 54111 From: chai-t-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:chai-t-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rose William Sent: Friday, 17 August 2012 8:11 AM To: chai-t@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [chai-t] Re: August meeting plans! Hi all, A reminder that we're meeting again today at 3pm at Peter Mac, in Research Meeting Room 2. As a reminder the map is below: [cid:image001.jpg@01CD7C59.3DCDBF40] Kind regards, William Rose Business Intelligence Manager Information Management +61 3 9656 5231 | Level 8, St Andrews Place, East Melbourne VIC 3002 ________________________________ From: chai-t-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto: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<mailto: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 +61 3 9656 5231 | Level 8, St Andrews Place, East Melbourne VIC 3002 This email (including any attachments or links) may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information and is intended only to be read or used by the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any use, distribution, disclosure or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. Confidentiality and legal privilege attached to this email (including any attachments) are not waived or lost by reason of its mistaken delivery to you. If you have received this email in error, please delete it and notify us immediately by telephone or email. 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