Key achievements

supported Victoria’s COVID-19 response as an agency priority, providing current, relevant and meaningful data and deploying staff to support the state pandemic response team
moved closer to a single source of truth for health quality and safety data with the launch of the VAHI Portal, accommodating COVID-19 information needs and releasing a new public-facing Victorian Health Services Performance website
conducted the first remote data integrity audits of the Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

launched the VAHI Data Request Hub to simplify and streamline our data request process, enabling us to deliver on 18% more requests compared to the year prior
invested in collecting data about patient-rated quality of life after medical treatment through our patient-reported outcomes (PROs) program
brokered access to four new registries for VAHI’s Australian-first clinical quality registry (CQR) linkage project.

released the first Victorian Health Incident Management System statewide report in the program’s 12-year history
co-designed improvements to the Board safety and quality report with health service board members, delivering more relevant and actionable insights
released two issues of the Inspire: Mental health report with 11 new measures to provide a more comprehensive picture of Victoria’s mental health system
released results of Victoria’s first in-depth investigation into food insecurity and its determinants through population health surveillance
provided public health services with access to more timely patient experience data through more frequent reporting of the Victorian Health Experience Survey.