November 2021
Health Data Portal e-newsletter
Contents include:
Item 1: nKPI updates/modifications
Item 2: Interactive reports
Item 3: Published reports
Item 4: Health Data Portal User Support
Artwork: One’s Journey to Health by Luke Penrith, 2020 (detail)
Item 1: nKPI updates/modifications
The third group of minor nKPI updates will be in place in clinical information system reports and in the Health Data Portal (HDP) in time for the 1 January 2022 to 15 February 2022 reporting round.
The following indicators will show a time series break and the changes include:
- PI12 - additional BMI categories, indicator name change, additional age categories
- PI15 - this indicator will be retired
- PI18 - additional age categories, change eGRF and ACR reporting to 'both test', 'one test', or 'neither test'
- PI19 - discontinue reporting in two parts, additional age category (0-14 years), indicator name change
The updated nKPI specifications/definitions can be found at the User Support Link below. As always, there is a 'What's new/Different in IHD Reporting for January 2022' document with all the changes for your reference through the HDP User Support link
Item 2: Interactive reports
The Qlik interactive reports have been updated to reflect the changes to indicators PI01, PI02, PI11, PI13 and PI24 made for the June 2021 collection. Where what is being measured has changed sufficiently to cause a break in the time series, the graphs in Qlik showing your data over time have been split into 'before' and 'after' views.
Note that where a break in time series occurs, the Summary and Executive Summary will (temporarily) not show previous period data, as it is no longer comparable. In the Summary sheets, this means that - for updated indicators - the light blue circle representing the previous period value will not show until the updated version has been reported more than once.
Indicator updated in June 2021: no previous period value shown
Indicator updated in December 2020: previous period value now shown again.
The interactive reports also have two new features: a dynamic Executive Summary and a report showing progress against the Closing the Gap Target #2 (Healthy Birthweight).
The dynamic Executive Summary has replaced the Introduction sheet in the reports. It shows a snapshot overview of your organisation's nKPI results over the last three collections, along with comparisons at national, state/territory, service size and remoteness levels, plus a custom comparison field. The Executive Summary is very similar to the Excel published report also available to you but can be accessed without needing to download anything.
The new Closing the Gap sheet shows your health service's Normal Birthweight results (PI02) against the yearly targets to December 2031 established for the Closing the Gap Target #2 (Healthy Birthweight). You can also view results for any comparison group such as national, state/territory, service size and remoteness etc against the targets.
Item 3: Published reports
The Qlik published reports are available throughout the year, and are updated each time you submit nKPI data. You can access and download your most up-to-date nKPI Summary Report (PowerPoint) and nKPI Executive Summary Report (Excel) as they are regenerated each week.
Please note that when the templates for these reports need to be changed to reflect nKPI updates, weekly publishing is briefly paused until the new version is available.
A step by step guide to accessing your published reports is available through the User Support link.
If you are not able to access these reports, please make sure you have the Published Report Viewer role. Please reach out to your organisation's HDP User Administrator to request, or send an email request to indigenousreporting@health.gov.au.
Item 4: Health Data Portal User Support
If you would like training on how to:
- prepare for reporting in January 2022
- access your data through Qlik
- download your summary reports
please send an email to indigenousreporting@health.gov.au to request a Webex session anytime.
A large suite of HDP User Support resources is available at the bottom of each of the HDP pages.
You can contact the HDP Support team (Stuart Dunn or Eileen Aguirre) by emailing indigenousreporting@health.gov.au.