Data linkage and the Australian Health Thesaurus - 2017-11-08 - Health & Medical Data Short Bites #5
Channel: Australian Research Data Commons - ARDC
Date: 2017-11-13

This short 30 minute webinar is the fifth in the Health and Medical Short Bites webinar series which aims to support better management and publication of Health and Medical data. 


Speakers 

1) Data linkage: processes, how it’s done, and data availability statements 
Dr Trisha Johnston, Director, Statistical Analysis Linkage Team, Queensland Department of Health 
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/hsu/link/datalink: Data linkage is an efficient way to enhance existing data to increase its usefulness for informing population health and clinical research, policy development and health service planning, management, monitoring and evaluation. 


2) Australian Health Thesaurus 
James Humffray, Manager of the Australian Health Thesaurus, HealthDirect Australia 
https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/australian-health-thesaurus 
HealthDirect uses the Thesaurus to improve the user’s search experience by: 
-- auto-suggestions of search terms 
-- alternative terms or synonyms to find content 
-- ranking in search results of the most relevant content 
-- facets or filters to narrow down a user’s search results 
-- lists of related keywords 


This webinar would be of interest to: 
-- Health and Medical librarians, data/repository managers 
-- Editors: medical &health journals 
-- Researchers: Medical Research Institutes, Universities 
-- Clinician researchers at hospitals 
-- Medical & PhD students 

Recordings, slides, transcripts, links for all health and medical webinars are at: http://www.ands.org.au/working-with-data/sensitive-data/medical-and-health/webinars-health-and-medical