Join the LUMOS Project
By participating in Lumos, your practice’s data contributes valuable information about patient journeys across the healthcare system in NSW.
LUMOS sheds light on the patient journey to create actionable insights about our health system.
The LUMOS project securely links encoded data from general practices to other health data in NSW, for example hospital and emergency department data. This is done under strict data governance processes in a partnership between Primary Health Networks and the NSW Ministry of Health. When aggregated, LUMOS data demonstrates the patient journey through primary and secondary care.
LUMOS aims to:
- Generate information and insights around the patient journey across health care services.
- Provide GPs with meaningful information about their patients that can help to improve care.
- Support data-driven quality improvement in general practice.
- Provide an evidence base to support areas of future investment in primary care.
- Support greater collaboration in health to ensure the right care in the right place at the right time.
Goal
To share deidentified and encoded data to the LUMOS project to provide the health system with insights on your practices patients journey.
Measure of success
- Share data your practice to LUMOS
Actions
- Download LUMOS GP information, FAQS and consent form. The data custodian for your practice consents to the collection of de-identified data.
- The data is linked twice yearly and the aggregated data is returned to the practice in a dashboard report. This is an automated process that occurs without practice time or intervention.
Tools and resources
- Information for General Practioners – NSW Health
- General practice benefits-one pager
- General practice information pack 2020
- Sample report for general practice
- Video – GP spotlight – Benefits to general practice
- Watch Healthy North Coast’s LUMOS Information Session presented by Adrian Power, Senior Collaboration and Technical Lead for LUMOS, NSW Health (recorded 7 December 2021).
Further information
- You can use the data to plan evidence-based improvements.
- There are opportunities to become a GP Clinical Champion and to participate on statewide committees over the life of the project.