A $1million funding boost for the Queensland Centre for Health Data Services will assist development of ‘report cards’ on health service delivery.
The new University of Queensland research centre is part of a national network that is building capacity in health data linkages and analysis to enable public health research.
Centre director, Professor Steve Kisely, said this work would give health providers like Queensland Health the ability to assess how well they were delivering services.
“Improved data services will enable a better understanding of health issues and how health systems are responding to these.
“It will help provide a ‘report card’ on service delivery and whether innovations are producing better outcomes for Queenslanders.
“The ultimate purpose is to improve health and wellbeing and enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of health services.
“This will be of particular value for examining the health of marginalised groups, such as rural and remote, and Indigenous communities.”
Queensland Treasure Andrew Fraser announced the funding in State Parliament recently.
The Centre is an unincorporated joint venture of The University of Queensland, Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology, James Cook University and the University of South Queensland. The Australian e-Health Research Centre will also be involved through an unincorporated joint venture between CSIRO and the State of Queensland.
The joint venture is part of the $20 million federally-funded Population Health Research Network to develop research infrastructure that will have benefits across Australia.
The network will enable researchers in universities, research institutes, government agencies and other organisations to access new and existing research datasets, ad hoc survey datasets and routine administrative datasets.
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