Health Data, Funding and Statistics
UndergraduateLTU-HIM20062025
Course information for 2025 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 23 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Mar 2025
- Price from
- $2,124
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Health Data, Funding and Statistics
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Demonstrate well-developed skills in applying the principles and standards related to health data to the processes of collection, reporting and verification for administrative health data.
- Work collaboratively to analyse and evaluate the uses of administrative health data collections by state, territory and national health authorities, health service planners, health service managers and researchers.
- Compute and present hospital and health service utilisation statistics and analyse published health activity and service-related data.
- Analyse and report health data underpinned by broad and coherent knowledge of models of health service and care funding, including Activity Based Funding and casemix-based approaches.
- Regulatory Frameworks for Health Data and Funding
- Vital events and vital statistics
- Key National and state data collections
- Introduction to Activity Based Funding
- Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (AR-DRGs)
- National Funding Models and National Weighted Activity Unit (NWAU)
- Health service utilisation statistics and benchmarking
In this subject you will develop a specialist working knowledge of health data standards; health data collections; government, insurance and other sectoral health data reporting requirements, and the relationship between these and health service measurement and financing. Models of Activity-Based Funding, including case mix-based systems, and their underpinning reporting and analysis requirements are studied. The pivotal role of the Health Information Manager within all of these arrangements is addressed. You will develop an understanding of the policy and funding frameworks for public and private health services and supporting clinical costing and modelling methods. You will develop competency in health data analytics, and analysis and reporting of hospital and health service utilisation statistics and published health data. Case studies inform your learning of these concepts and your analyses of morbidity, mortality, clinical, productivity and health service data.
This subject includes synchronous sessions held during business hours. This means that you will attend sessions each week simultaneously with your facilitator and classmates. This subject is recommended for second-year undergraduate students, and for students who have completed all first-year subjects in the Bachelor of Health Information Management.
- Online quiz (250 words equivalent) (5%)
- One 1,500 word individual assignment (30%)
- 15 -minute team presentation plus notes pages (equivalent 500 words per person) (20%)
- One 90 minute online test (1,500 words equivalent) (45%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- LAT-HIM-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Health Information Management
Prior study
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:
Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s).
Others
Prerequisites: Students must be admitted in the following course: HB001O
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Health Information Management
UndergraduateLAT-HIM-DEG