The Health Information Workforce Census (New Zealand) project is a collaborative project between the University of Auckland and University of Otago.
AIM
The aim of the census project is to quantify and qualify the New Zealand Health information Workforce (HIW), specifically to delineate and count the workforce, consider the future configuration of workforce, identify health information workforce shortfalls, and identify current health information training and career pathways.
2019 Summary Report
The much anticipated New Zealand Health Information Workforce Summary report for the 2018 Census is available. This Census represents the beginning of our ability to identify our emerging Health Information Workforce and plan for its development in the digital health...
WHO SHOULD COMPLETE THE CENSUS?
Anyone who self-identifies as part of the health information workforce working for/with an organisation that operates in New Zealand. You are part of the workforce if you work (including volunteer or actively seeking) in a role where the primary function is related to developing, maintaining, or governing the systems for the management of health data, health information, or health knowledge (Gray & Butler-Henderson 2018). And you work (including volunteer or actively seeking) for/with an organisation that operates in New Zealand, your role relates to the New Zealand operations, and relates to the health sector. As a guide, and not exclusively, this includes anyone who works or provides education and training within the following areas:
- Clinical coding
- Clinical costings
- Clinical Documentation Improvement
- eHealth systems
- Health data analytics
- Health informatics
- Health information management
- Health information technology
- Health librarianship
- Health Information governance
- Digital health infrastructure
- Health information systems or services
Read more about eligibility here
WHEN IS THE CENSUS?
The first census was held in Australia during May 2018. The first New Zealand census will be in November and December 2018. The next census will be in 2020 and every 3 years thereafter.
Please read the information sheet for the census project, available here.
Participation in the census is voluntary and anonymous. You will not be identifiable in the reporting of census findings.
RECEIVE UPDATES
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I HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CENSUS
Please read the information sheet about the census. If you have further questions, please contact a member of the project team, below.
HELP US PROMOTE THE CENSUS
For the census results to be meaningful, we need to reach as many people as possible. Your help to promote the census to your networks would be appreciated. Please forward the link to this website to your colleagues so that they can complete the census too. Here is a project overview for those who want to know more.
LONGITUDINAL STUDY INFORMATION
The longitudinal study is a sub-study of the census project. The census does not collect identifying information about participants, making it difficult to measure an individual’s career progression over time. As such, the census project is seeking individuals to participate in a longitudinal study of the workforce. If you decide to be part of this longitudinal study, you will be asked to answer a small number of questions at the beginning of each census to enable the project team to link the census response to past census responses. The census questions will follow these questions. Once the census is complete, an individual’s census responses will be re-identified with a unique identifier to enable individual responses to be linked to past census responses, and then data entered for linkage questions will be removed.
Participation in the longitudinal sub-study is voluntary. You can elect to complete the census without being part of this longitudinal study. A participant who participates in the longitudinal study can elect not to participate in the future.
HOW THE CENSUS WAS DEVELOPED
The question in the census were developed in an Australian study using a Delphi study design throughout 2017. Experts from a number of different stakeholder organisations provided input into the data elements and questions that should be included in the census. This was to ensure that the census would answer the stakeholder group’s questions, and that the questions would not change over time. The census was then pilot tested by the experts and the executive of the partner organisations listed at the top of this page.
PRIVACY STATEMENT
The collection of data and all associated data access projects must comply with the Privacy Act 1993 and the Health Information Privacy Code of 1994. All data will be treated with confidentiality.
The HIWC data will be stored in a safe and secure location that can only be accessed by authorised personnel. Only the HIWC investigators listed under the section ‘Contacts’ and research staff employed specifically for the HIWC project can access the HIWC database.
All data will be stored in a deidentified manner. Data collected for the longitudinal study will be stored separate from the linkage log.
An individual should not be identifiable in the publication or presentation of data from the HIWC.
Access to data by external organisations will comply with this privacy statement.
ETHICS APPROVAL
The New Zealand census ethics was approved by the University Of Auckland Human Participants Ethics Committee on 19 November 2018 for three years. Reference Number 022223.
CONTACT US
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For further information about the New Zealand census, please contact one of the researchers:
| Dr Karen Day University of Auckland k.day@auckland.ac.nz |
Associate Professor Rebecca Grainger University of Otago rebecca.grainger@otago.ac.nz |