A Project Management Strategy for Collection and Reporting of Casemix Profiles and Hospital Clinical Indicators

Abstract

A newly developed strategy and computerised system for collection and reporting of hospital clinical indicators and doctor activity. A project was developed to analyse, plan and implement a data management strategy for Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) clinical indicators. This project incorporated objectives for review of all available clinical indicators, analysis of appropriate medical and surgical clinical indicators, review and redesign of data collection methods, and feed-back processes suitable for hospital staff and visiting medical specialists. In conjunction with a software vendor, the hospital developed a computerised system for collection and reporting of clinical indicators. In addition to this, the system extracts data from the hospital's main database, to provide doctors with information regarding their own patient cases (doctor profiles), overview of activities of their specialty (specialty profiles) and casemix analysis.