Health information management students' work-integrated learning (professional practice placements): Where do they go and what do they do?

Work-integrated learning (WIL) is integral to most health disciplines' profession-qualifying degree programs. To analyse the categories, locales and foci of final-year (capstone), health information management professional practice (WIL) placements, 2012-2021, at La Trobe University, Australia. A documentary analysis of 614 placement agency proposals, 2012-2021, interrogated multiple characteristics: agency type, placement (sub-) category (WIL model), project type, agency-required student capabilities, intended learning outcomes.

Researchers' perceptions of the trustworthiness, for reuse purposes, of government health data in Victoria, Australia: Implications for policy and practice.

In 2022 the Australian Data Availability and Transparency Act (DATA) commenced, enabling accredited "data users" to access data from "accredited data service providers." However, the DATA Scheme lacks guidance on "trustworthiness" of the data to be utilised for reuse purposes. : To determine: (i) Do researchers using government health datasets trust the data? (ii) What factors influence their perceptions of data trustworthiness? and (iii) What are the implications for government and data custodians? Authors of published studies (2008-2020) that utilised Victorian government health datasets were surveyed via a case study approach.

The knowledge and reuse practices of researchers utilising government health information assets, Victoria, Australia, 2008-2020.

Background: Using government health datasets for secondary purposes is widespread; however, little is known on researchers' knowledge and reuse practices within Australia.

Objectives: To explore researchers' knowledge and experience of governance processes, and their data reuse practices, when using Victorian government health datasets for research between 2008-2020.

Method: A cross-sectional quantitative survey was conducted with authors who utilised selected Victorian, Australia, government health datasets for peer-reviewed research published between 2008-2020.

Work-integrated learning for health information management students: Lessons learned from literature, and experiences of supervisors and students on virtual or remote placements.

Background: Traditionally, health placements have required practical in-person learning, including placements completed by health information management (HIM) students. COVID-19 made in-person healthcare placements largely unviable. Alternative virtual/remote placements were required.

Workforce survey of Australian health information management graduates, 2017-2021: A 5-year follow-on study.

Employment outcomes of La Trobe University's 2012-2016 health information manager (HIM) graduate cohort were reported previously. To identify the 2017-2021 Australia-based, graduate HIMs' early career employment experiences; identify employment roles and destinations; investigate knowledge and skill sets utilised in professional performance; and compare outcomes with the previous study. A cross-sectional design was utilised.

The applications of Australian-coded ICD-10 and ICD-10-AM data in research: A scoping review of the literature.

Australia uses the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) for mortality coding and its Australian Modification, ICD-10-AM, for morbidity coding. The ICD underpins surveillance (population health, mortality), health planning and research (clinical, epidemiological and others). ICD-10-AM also supports activity-based funding, thereby propelling realignment of the foci of clinical coding and, potentially, coded data's research utility.

A documentary analysis of Victorian Government health information assets' websites to identify availability of documentation for data sharing and reuse in Australia.

Background: Health data sharing is important for monitoring diseases, policy and practice, and planning health services. If health data are used for secondary purposes, information needs to be provided to assist in reuse.

Objectives: To review government health information asset websites to ascertain the extent of readily available, explanatory documentation for researcher sharing and reuse of these data.

Defining career success: A cross-sectional analysis of health information managers' perceptions.

Background: Career success can be defined as the accomplishment of desirable outcomes in an individual's work experiences. It can be divided into objective and subjective career success. Objective success refers to tangible and measurable outcomes such as promotions and position titles.

Professional identity and workplace motivation: A case study of health information managers.

Background: The professional identity and motivation of qualified health information managers (HIMs) is largely unexplored.

Objectives: A larger study has investigated the motivators of HIMs in the construction of their professional identity and associated relationships to job satisfaction and engagement with their profession. The aims of this component of the study were to: (i) identify and analyse the characteristics of members of the profession who have different motivation profiles; (ii) obtain HIMs' perspectives on their professional identity; and (iii) measure correlation between HIMs' professional identity and different motivating factors.

The suitability of government health information assets for secondary use in research: A fit-for-purpose analysis.

Background: Governments have responsibility for ensuring the quality and fitness-for-purpose of personal health data provided to them. While these health information assets are used widely for research, this secondary usage has received minimal research attention.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the secondary uses, in research, of population health and administrative datasets (information assets) of the Department of Health (DoH), Victoria, Australia.

Factors Associated with Stroke Coding Quality: A Comparison of Registry and Administrative Data.

Background: The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM) codes are commonly used to identify patients with diseases or clinical conditions for epidemiological research. We aimed to determine the diagnostic agreement and factors associated with a clinician-assigned stroke diagnosis in a national registry and the ICD-10-AM codes recorded in government-held administrative data.

Materials And Methods: Data from 39 hospitals (2009-2013) participating in the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry (AuSCR) were linked and merged with person-level administrative data.

An investigation of the status and maturity of hospitals' health information governance in Victoria, Australia.

Background: Health information governance (IG) in Australian hospitals was hitherto unexplored.

Objectives: To determine hospitals' health IG status and maturity in Victoria, Australia, identify drivers and barriers affecting IG adoption, examine electronic health data breach response plan usage and assess employees' electronic data breach awareness.

Method: Mixed-methods descriptive study utilising an online survey of directors - clinical/health information services and chief health information managers (HIMs) in Victorian hospitals, ≥50 beds.

Genetics and pediatric hospital admissions, 1985 to 2017.

Purpose: To determine the prevalence and sociodemographic and hospitalization history of genetic conditions in a sample of inpatients in a pediatric hospital in 2017, and to compare results with unpublished studies from 1985, 1995, and 2007.

Methods: Two weeks of admissions were classified according to a pre-existing categorization, based on genetic etiology, encompassing chromosomal and monogenic conditions, multifactorial (MF) conditions, and no known genetic cause.

Results: In 2017, 299 (16%) patients had chromosomal or monogenic conditions, 6-7% more than 2007 and 1995, but similar to 1985.

Workforce survey of Australian graduate health information managers: Employability, employment, and knowledge and skills used in the workplace.

Background: Employability, employment destinations and utilisation of knowledge-skill domains of new graduate health information managers (HIMs) have not been explored.

Objectives: To capture the timing from course completion to employment and employment locations of a 5-year cohort of health information management graduates of La Trobe University, Australia, in 2017-2018; identify professional knowledge and skills used by the graduates in executing their roles; and map these to four domains of the health information management curriculum.

Method: A mixed-methods descriptive study utilising a survey investigated early career pathways of new graduates of health information management courses from 2012 to 2016.

Methodological processes in validating and analysing the quality of population-based data: a case study using the Victorian Perinatal Data Collection.

This paper describes methods used and results obtained from a study that measured the accuracy of a routinely collected population-based data set. Data on a random sample of births were extracted from the 2003 Victorian Perinatal Data Collection (VPDC) and compared with information in the original medical record. Accuracy was calculated for 111 items related to diverse aspects of maternity and neonatal health and care.

Registry- and clinic-based analyses of birth defects and syndromes associated with cleft lip/palate in Victoria, Australia.

Objective: To study the birth defects and syndromes associated with cleft lip and/or cleft palate in children born from 2000 through 2002 in Victoria, Australia, comparing data from the birth defects registry and detailed clinical assessment.

Design, Setting, And Participants: Data recorded in the Victorian Birth Defects Register were retrieved for all children with cleft lip and/or palate born from 2000 through 2002. In parallel, a cohort of children with clefts was recruited from the two cleft centers in Victoria.

Has prenatal screening influenced the prevalence of comorbidities associated with Down syndrome and subsequent survival rates?

Objectives: With this study we aimed to compare survival rates for children with Down syndrome in 2 time periods, 1 before prenatal screening (1988-1990) and 1 contemporaneous with screening (1998-2000), and to examine the frequency of comorbidities and their influence on survival rates.

Methods: Record-linkage was performed between the population-based Victorian Birth Defects Register and records of deaths in children up to 15 years of age collected under the auspice of the Consultative Council on Obstetric and Pediatric Mortality and Morbidity. Cases of Down syndrome were coded according to the presence or absence of comorbidities by using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision classification of birth defects.

What has happened with neural tube defects and womens' understanding of folate in Victoria since 1998?

Objective: To describe the prevalence of neural tube defects (NTDs) in Victoria, and to evaluate women's knowledge and awareness of the importance of folate after the introduction of voluntary food fortification.

Design And Setting: Descriptive study, set in Victoria, Australia, based on routinely collected data from the Victorian Birth Defects Register (VBDR) for 1998-2006, and responses by women aged 18-50 years to five questions relating to folate on the 2005 and 2006 Victorian Population Health Surveys (2314 and 2488 women, respectively).

Main Outcome Measures: Prevalence of NTDs, and extent of women's knowledge of the importance of folate in NTD prevention, comparing the period before and since voluntary food fortification and a folate awareness campaign.

Frequency of holoprosencephaly in the International Clearinghouse Birth Defects Surveillance Systems: searching for population variations.

Background: Holoprosencephaly (HPE) is a developmental field defect of the brain that results in incomplete separation of the cerebral hemispheres that includes less severe phenotypes, such as arhinencephaly and single median maxillary central incisor. Information on the epidemiology of HPE is limited, both because few population-based studies have been reported, and because small studies must observe a greater number of years in order to accumulate sufficient numbers of births for a reliable estimate.

Methods: We collected data from 2000 through 2004 from 24 of the 46 Birth Defects Registry Members of the International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research.

Population prevalence rates of birth defects: a data management and epidemiological perspective.

The Victorian Birth Defects Register (VBDR) is a population-based surveillance system with a primary function of monitoring trends in birth defects. This paper outlines the processes undertaken in Victoria, Australia, to obtain population prevalence rates of birth defects and investigates the effect on the prevalence rates of variations in collection and processing tasks. It includes all birth defects that were notified to the VBDR by 31 December 2004.

Is Down syndrome a disappearing birth defect?

Objective: To assess trends in the prevalence of Down syndrome (DS) from 1986 to 2004 in Victoria, Australia (population approximately 5 million).

Study Design: The Victorian Birth Defects Register and the Prenatal Diagnosis Database were linked to ascertain all cases of DS. Total and birth prevalence estimates were calculated per year and presented as 3-year moving averages.

Estimating the prevalence of fetal alcohol syndrome in Victoria using routinely collected administrative data.

Objective: To establish the prevalence of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) in Victoria through the Victorian Birth Defects Register (VBDR).

Methods: A sample of live births from 1995-2002 was selected from the Victorian Perinatal Data Collection and VBDR based on reported microcephaly, FAS or maternal use of alcohol during pregnancy. Following ethics approval, medical records of mother and child were requested for 117 births.

An epidemiologic study of orofacial clefts with other birth defects in Victoria, Australia.

Objective: To describe the epidemiological characteristics of oral clefts occurring with other birth defects in Victoria, Australia.

Methods: Information on infants and fetuses reported to the Victorian Birth Defects Register from 1983 to 2000 was collected. Birth defects were classified as Pierre Robin Sequence, chromosomal anomaly, nonchromosomal syndrome, single-system defect, or multiple-system defect.

Influence of prenatal diagnosis and pregnancy termination of fetuses with birth defects on the perinatal mortality rate in Victoria, Australia.

Historical data show that in Victoria birth defects have accounted for approximately 25% of all perinatal deaths. Terminations of pregnancies (TOPs) for birth defects occurring at > or =20 weeks gestation are included in the population-based perinatal data collection. These are classified as stillbirths or neonatal deaths.