Operating Room Management Information System (ORMIS) Data Standardisation

The Sur­gi­cal and Peri­op­er­a­tive Care Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work (SPC­SCN) has iden­ti­fied an oppor­tu­ni­ty to improve the valid­i­ty of surgery can­cel­la­tion data across Local Health Net­works (LHNs) in South Aus­tralia (SA). Cur­rent­ly, there is an absence of a con­sis­tent, statewide approach to the inter­pre­ta­tion and util­i­sa­tion of Oper­at­ing Room Man­age­ment Infor­ma­tion Sys­tem (ORMIS) surgery can­cel­la­tion codes. This affects the valid­i­ty of surgery can­cel­la­tion data report­ing. Improv­ing data valid­i­ty is piv­otal to enable deci­sion mak­ers to obtain reli­able insights into the­atre util­i­sa­tion effi­cien­cy and iden­ti­fy oppor­tu­ni­ties for strate­gic invest­ment to improve surgery wait­list man­age­ment and hos­pi­tal flow. 

The Net­work will be engag­ing nom­i­nat­ed stake­hold­ers across all LHNs to bet­ter under­stand the extent of the prob­lem and, togeth­er, co-design a solu­tion which can be imple­ment­ed across the state. 

If you are inter­est­ed to find out more about this project, con­tact us at: CEIH.​SurgicalPerioperative@​sa.​gov.​au.