The department supports the development, collection and use of Victoria’s health datasets, including data relating to hospital admissions, emergency department attendances, elective surgery waiting lists, births, alcohol and other drugs services, mental health services, financial data and more. 

The department works to ensure high quality and accurate data is available to inform planning and policy development, and enable monitoring of safe, high-quality care in Victoria’s health services, while also allowing state and national reporting  obligations to be met. 

The department also supports data collection and management for several specific programs and purposes, including the Victorian Healthcare Experience Survey, the statewide patient experience monitoring and reporting program. 

Data management, standards and privacy
Information on VAHI’s responsibilities in relation to data management, standards and privacy
Health data integrity
VAHI is responsible for ensuring the integrity of performance and activity data in key public health service datasets
Clinical coding and classifications
Clinical coding and classifications, sometimes called health classifications, group aspects of patient information and characteristics into categories...
Patient experience and outcomes
The VHES records the healthcare experiences of patients across Victoria’s public health services, covering everything from patient/service communicati...
Health data standards and systems
The Department of Health provides standards, specifications and data quality processes for the following health data collections
VHIMS
The Victorian Health Incident Management System Minimum Dataset (VHIMS MDS) is a standardised dataset designed to collect clinical and occupational he...