CHeReL Past Events, Presentations & Downloads
CHeReL past Events, Presentations & Podcasts
For information on past events please refer to the table below and click on event titles to locate relevant information.
| Making the most of the CHeReL: a burgeoning resource for research | 21 August | 2008 |
| Measuring the safety and quality of health services: a key application for record linkage | 22 May | 2008 |
| Making the most of the CHeReL: a burgeoning resource for research | 13 December | 2007 |
| Record Linkage Forum | 6 December | 2006 |
| Link and Multiply: the Benefits of Data Linkage | 27 July | 2006 |
"Making the most of the CHeReL: a burgeoning resource for research"
The Sax Institute has over the last two years provided support to the CHeReL to coordinate and run forums and training workshops to promote greater understanding of, and use of, record linkage research in NSW and ACT. This forum focused on the safety and quality agenda in NSW and nationally.
Speakers and their presentations are listed below.
| Prof Louisa Jorm | Professor of Population Health University of Western Sydney & Research Director at the Sax Institute |
"Using linked data for policy-relevant research" |
| Prof Chris Kelman | Adjunct Associate Professor, Australian National University Population Health and Health Informatics |
"Utilising record linkage for better health in the ACT" |
| Dr Melina Gattellari | Senior Research Fellow, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales and the Centre for Research, Evidence Management & Surveillance, Sydney South West Area Health Service. |
"Safety and quality research using record linkage" |
| A/Prof Dianne O'Connell | Cancer Epidemiology Research Unit, Cancer Research Division, The Cancer Council NSW |
"Using the linked data to look at patterns of cancer care" |
| Dr Lee Taylor | Manager, Surveillance Methods, Centre for Epidemiology and Research, NSW Health |
"Perinatal research using record linkage" Presentation One - Coming |
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What is CHEREL? What data does it have? How can it be used? What are some shining examples? What is possible? Presentation Two - Coming |
"Measuring the safety and quality of health services: a key application for record linkage"
The Sax Institute, the NSW Clinical Excellence Commission and the Centre for Health Record Linkage are pleased to invite you to a half day forum that will explore researcher, clinician and policymaker perspectives on successes, opportunities and challenges in using linked data to measure the safety and quality of health care.
Speakers included:
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Professor David Fletcher, Foundation University of West Australia Professor of Surgery at Fremantle Hospital, Head of General Surgery and Clinical Director of Surgical Services Fremantle Hospital and Chairman of the West Australian Quality of Surgical Care Project - "What can and have clinicians and researchers achieved through the use of linked data?"
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Associate Professor Terri Jackson Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health , The University of Queensland - investing in "innovative analytical work to investigate safety and quality using routinely collected data sets"
Presentations available for downloading are as follows:
| Professor Clifford Hughes | CEO, NSW Clinical Excellence Commission |
"Priorities for CEC re: safety and quality and linked data research" |
| Professor David Fletcher | Foundation University of West Australia Professor of Surgery at Fremantle Hospital, Head of General Surgery and Clinical Director of Surgical Services Fremantle Hospital and Chairman of the West Australian Quality of Surgical Care Project |
"What can and have clinicians and researchers achieved through the use of linked data?" |
| Associate Professor Terri Jackson | Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health , The University of Queensland |
investing in "innovative analytical work to investigate safety and quality using routinely collected data sets" |
| Dr Glenda Lawrence and Dr Lee Taylor |
Manager, Centre for Health Record Linkage Medical Epidemiologist Centre for Epidemiology and Research, NSW Department of Health |
"The Centre for Health Record Linkage - a resource for conducting research in safety and quality of health care" |
| Dr Mary Haines | Health Services Research Director, The Sax Institute |
"How can linked routinely collected data be used to improve safety and quality?" |
| Andre Jenkins | Director, Information Management Clinical Excellence Commission |
"The newly published CHARTS - what does this mean for clinicians and researchers?" and "Opportunities for partnerships with the CEC for safety and quality research using record linkage" |
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"Making the most of the CHeReL: a burgeoning resource for research"
On the 13th December 2007, the Sax Institute and the Centre for Health Record Linkage held a half day forum to discuss the opportunities presented by the CHeReL for new research using linked health data and to hear case studies of success and innovation in record linkage from NSW and nationally.
Staff of the CHeReL provided updates on the availability of linked data sets, data quality issues, and services they can provide to assist in research proposal development.
Speakers included:
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Dr. David Preen, Director, Centre for Health Services Research, School of Public Health, University of Western Australia - "Using linked data to answer big questions for health policy”
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Associate Professor Annette Braunackmayer, School of Public Health, University of South Australia - “Partnerships and Privacy: tackling difficult issues in record linkage”
There were a range of presentations by leading NSW data linkage researchers who have been successful in securing grants for their work.
Presentations
Presentations available for downloading are as follows:
| Professor Annette Braunack-Mayer | Associate Professor in Ethics, School of Population Health and Clinical Practice, The University of Adelaide |
"Partnerships and privacy: tackling difficult issues in record linkage" |
| Dr Jane Ford | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney |
"Identifying risk for second and subsequent pregnancies: a longitudinal record linkage study" |
| Professor Louisa Jorm | Professor of Population Health University of Western Sydney and Research Director at the Sax Institute |
"Age, acculturation and use of health services for mental health problems" |
| Dr Glenda Lawrence | Acting Manager, Centre for Health Record Linkage |
"Update from the CHeReL: availability of datasets, policies and procedures, services for researchers" |
| Dr Mary Haines | Health Services Research Director, The Sax Institute |
"2007 NHMRC Project Grant Applications using CHeReL: analysis of assessor comments and GRP reports" |
| Dr Claire Vajdic | Senior Lecturer, National Centre in HIV and Clinical Research |
"Defining immune disregulation cohorts at risk of cancer" |
| Dr Lee Taylor | Medical Epidemiologist Centre for Epidemiology and Research, NSW Department of Health |
"Quality assurance in record linkage at the CHeReL" |
Record Linkage forum - Using CHeReL for research
On 6th December 2006, the Centre for Health Record Linkage (CHeReL) ran an information forum - Using CheReL for Research - to coincide with opening its doors for business. This forum provided over 100 researchers and health record users with comprehensive information on how to access CHeReL services for research projects and programs. Following this session, concurrent 'theme' based workshops were held to explores ideas for new research using record linkage.
Presentations
Session 1: How to Use CHeReL
- Dr Louisa Jorm, The Sax Institute: Introduction to CHeReL
- Dr Lee Taylor, NSW Health and the Centre for Health Record Linkage: A guided tour of health record linkage services provided by CHeReL
- Mr Rodney Ecclestone, The Cancer Institute, NSW: Managing the Ethics process for CHeReL
- Dr Louisa Jorm, The Sax Institute: Accessing the data - knowing what's available (MS Access application required to view this file)
Session 2: Concurrent Workshops
Workshop A: Cancer and linked record research
Workshop B: Maternal and Perinatal linked record research
Workshop C: Longitudinal/cohort studies and linked record research
Link & Multiply: the Benefits of Data Linkage
On 27th July 2006, the Sax Insititute and the Centre for Health Record Linkage Management Committee hosted the Data Symposium- Link and Multiply: the Benefits of Data Linkage in Sydney.
Over 100 senior researchers, policy makers and practitioners attended the Symposium to share information on how data linkage is being used nationally and internationally and, to promote discussion on how we can use the Centre for Health Record Linkage to provide evidence for better health planning.
We were very pleased to be joined by one of the international leaders in using linked data for research Professor Michael Goldacre, Director of the Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology at the University of Oxford.