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HOSdata - Victorian hospital data reports
This website provides information to help you access a selected range of data from collections of hospital data.
Data may be requested from these collections:
- Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset (VAED) – collects morbidity data on all admitted patients from Victorian public and private acute hospitals including rehabilitation centres, extended care facilities and day procedure centres.
- Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset (VEMD) – collects information on emergency presentations at Victorian public hospitals that receive the non-admitted emergency services grant, and other hospitals as designated by the Department of Health
- Elective Surgery Information System (ESIS) - collects electronic episode-level elective surgery waiting list information from the major Victorian metropolitan and rural public hospitals.
About the data collections
These data collections support Victoria’s obligations under the National Health Information Agreement (NHIA) and the National Healthcare Agreement (NHA), and Section 17 of the Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008.
The Department of Health uses information from these collections to:
- fund public hospitals equitably
- support health service planning
- inform policy
- support epidemiological research, and
- track performance and its reporting.
For the activity and performance information for individual hospitals, health services and statewide data see Victorian Health Services Performance.
As statistical data, the collections do not form part of, and are not suitable for use in, the treatment of patients. Hospitals maintain comprehensive patient records for this purpose.
For more detailed information about these collections refer to the Health Data Standards & Systems (HDSS) website for the relevant Data Manual.
Related information
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) publications
- National Health Information Agreement (NHIA)
- National Healthcare Agreement (NHA)
- Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 - see Legislation Victoria.
