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During 2010–11, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare saw the culmination of work in the following areas of activity:

Information for policy and related purposes

  • supply of performance indicator data and associated data quality statements, and development of new and improved performance indicators required for Council of Australian Governments (COAG) reporting
  • launch of the MyHospitals website
  • launch of the biennial Indigenous report and web observatory
  • release of What works to overcome Indigenous disadvantage: key learnings and gaps in the evidence, 2009–10, the first Closing the Gap Clearinghouse evaluation report

New developments and renewal

  • development of the new Specialist Homelessness Services collection
  • pilot testing of the draft Mental Health Interventions Classification using a range of data collection methodologies, including iPads
  • production of the first analysis of information on patients with dementia from the new Aged Care Funding Instrument, and on older people leaving hospital assisted by the Transition Care Program
  • completion of a review of the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services National Minimum Data Set
  • revision of the presentation of data in the Cancer in Australia: an overview 2010 publication and its companion Cancer in brief 2010 publication
  • production of user-friendly, accessible online snapshots of information and statistics on asthma and on male health
  • an independent stakeholder review of Australian Hospital Statistics publications to further develop the AIHW's suite of hospitals products

Quality and standards

  • development of an on-line hospitals data validation tool, Validata®, to improve timeliness and quality of national hospital statistics products
  • development of methodologies and infrastructure that allow increasingly large and complex data linkage projects to be undertaken
  • promulgation of data standards throughout the health and community services data communities
  • release of the National Indicator Catalogue containing all COAG performance indicators and their specifications

Further information on these highlights is provided in the 'In brief' section that follows and in Chapter 1 Our performance and Chapter 3 Our operating units.