IT Projects

NADA IT Projects - what are they?

Originally funded by NSW Health as a result of the 1999 NSW Drug Summit the NADA IT projects include:

• The maintenance and development of the NADA website
• Maintenance and development of other websites
• Maintenance and development of the NADA on line database.
• IT Training and support
• Assisting NADA member agencies with a range of data collection issues.

IT Project Latest News

As with the preceding years, the last 12 months has seen a significant growth in the number of services using the nada on-line database. As the Area Health Services move toward implementing enterprise versions of information management and processing applications in their services; NADA has picked up more of NSW AOD treatment data collection in the non government services.

The increase in the number of users equates to an increase in associated activity related to the maintenance of the database used for this collection. More reports, more error checking and so on.

The NADA data collection stands as one of the largest single methods of collecting this increasingly important data. As we expect this trend to continue, some time and energy has been put this year; into planning a redevelopment of this system to a more comprehensive, dynamic and versatile means of data collection.

Also initiated in the preceding twelve months are a number of systems designed to assist the various NADA projects to communicate more effectively and smarter by consolidating key business information and facilitating access to it, enabling efficient communication of business activities between nada staff via enhanced use of business application software. The ongoing development of NADA's website as a communication tool has seen a review in the presentation format and enhanced functionality for NADA staff.

As communication via the internet and the development of improved web based applications continue to be part of the ongoing strategies for NADA into the future we have created a development environment where future changes and enhancements of web applications can be fully tested in a live environment prior to being incorporated into the World Wide Web.