Information Utility Strategy
This strategy supports the shift of services in the mental health sector from being data collectors to information users. This is a key objective of the Government's National Mental Health Information Strategy, 2005.
The Te Pou Information Utility Strategy outlines a framework and education programme to help services understand how to read, analyse and interpret mental health information, and apply it in everyday practice. It is targeted at all professional groups providing mental health services, as well as service users and tangata whaiora accessing services. Service users will have access to the education programme through network meetings and forums.
This strategy also links into several other key pieces of Te Pou's work. For example we are developing a framework for using Maori mental health data, that links into and informs this strategy to ensure that guidelines for using Maori data will form part of any generic training about information use. The Test Project also offers the opportunity for services to begin interrogating their own data through MHOsys (Mental Health Outcomes System).
Version 1.1 April 2008
Contents
Introduction/background
Definitions
Part i: The principles underpinning the Information Utility Strategy
Part ii: Types of information
Part iii: The six key components of the Information Utility Strategy
Part iv: Actioning the Information Utility Strategy
Part v: Communicating the Information Utility Strategy
Download in PDF format
Te Pou Information Utility Strategy 2008 (PDF)
For more information
Contact Mark Smith, clinical lead specialist.
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