Want to Improve Information Sharing Across Health and Social Services?

The University of Melbourne’s Information Continuum Project is exploring how to improve information sharing across health and social services for people with multiple needs, including mental illness. The projects seeks to understand:

• What type of information is collected and shared.
• Who it is shared with.
• Tools used to facilitate information sharing.
• Enablers and barriers to information sharing.

The project researchers are looking to chat with clinicians, caseworkers and housing support workers in primary health care, mental health care, and housing and homelessness services. Interviews will include questions about information sharing between your service and other services in the care of people with multiple needs (including mental illness). A mapping activity will look at the different potential services in someone’s network of care, and what types of information travel between them. The whole interview session, including the mapping activity, should take approximately 60 minutes.

The findings from interviews will contribute to health service research to design strategies to improve information sharing between sectors in the care of people with multiple needs, including mental illness.

Further study details and a consent form are available at: http://go.unimelb.edu.au/oyw6

For enquiries about the project, please contact the researchers:

Timothy Kariotis [PhD Candidate]: [email protected]
Dr Victoria Palmer: [email protected]