As Director, Information Management & Standards, Mark is responsible for the management of a unit that covers data governance including privacy, confidentiality and security, classification and coding, hospital reporting, performance measurement specification and health data integrity (auditing).
Mark joined VAHI from the Department of Health and Human Services. He has a key role in state and national information standards development and for providing expert technical advice on health information policy and standards, particularly in regard to hospital data collections, performance indicators, patient privacy and data linkage.
Mark is Chair of the National Health Information Standards and Standards Committee, an Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council committee responsible for the specification and endorsement of national data collection metadata.