Data references
This section contains technical documentation for the national collections.
Health information standards developed by the former Health Information Standards Organisation (now reconstituted in the form of the Health Information Standards Governance Group and Health Information Standards Office) can be found on the IT Health Board website.
In this section
- Clinical code tables for use in classifying data for the national collections. Read more
- Compliance test scripts for confirming that health agencies can meet data reporting requirements as documented in the National Collection File Specifications. Read more
- Data dictionaries describe the information available within the national collections and promote consistency across the collections, supporting the use of nationally agreed protocols and standards. Read more
- Data guides describe the classes and objects that make up the Business Objects Universes for the national collections. Read more
- Information about Australia Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (AR-DRG), the grouper used for the national collections. Read more
- Information about the processing phases before records are loaded into the databases, and the error messages that may arise during loading. Read more
- File specifications describe the file formats used to send information to the Ministry for inclusion in the national collections. Read more
- Files to help with mapping between ICD versions. Read more
- The WIES methodologies and cost weight tables for each financial year. Read more
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Page last updated: 04 January 2011
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