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Canberra Analytics Group

Using observational data to monitor health outcomes
Dr Chris Kelman, Department of Health and Ageing

11:30-12:30 Friday 29 October 2004
Room G35 Ground Floor John Dedman Building 27 ANU. It is located between the Union Building and the Drill Hall. G35 is on the western side near Sullivans Creek

There is a paid parking area corner of Childers St and Hutton St. This is located near the John Dedman Building on the eastern side

ABSTRACT

As a by-product of managing and funding Australia's health system, comprehensive data are routinely collected. These data, when linked, provide a powerful resource supporting the evaluation of treatment outcomes and the detection of adverse events. This resource is now becoming available under agreements between the states and the federal government. A protocol has been developed to ensure optimal privacy protection is maintained.

A number of projects have been conducted by the Department of Health and Ageing to investigate the potential uses of these data for health care monitoring, cost-effectiveness studies and epidemiology. A major study was conducted to investigate the possible relationship between long-haul air travel and DVT. Another study examined the potential to detect adverse drug reactions.

The results of this work will be discussed and the potential for future work as more complete data become available.

BIO

Dr Chris Kelman has a background in Medicine, Engineering and Public Health. He is currently a medical advisor in public health research and informatics for the Federal Department of Health and Aged Care. His principal responsibility is to advise on the development of a national infrastructure to support the integration of health data. This will generate a resource to support research in epidemiology, health service outcomes and health economics in order to provide the evidence for public health management and policy development.

He is also actively involved in a number of research projects using large health data sets and is a visiting research fellow at the Australian National University and the University of Western Australia.

Last modified: Tue Jan 3 15:41:10 EST 2006