Little Oak

Client List

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics

  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

  • Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing

  • Adelaide University's Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU)

  • Monash University's Centre for Rural Health

  • National Health Performance Authority

  • Queensland Health

  • The University of Queensland's Collaborative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism

  • Workplace Gender Equality Agency

Specialist skills and experience

Little Oak's Director, Nigel Mercer, has over 30 years experience with information and data systems, including:

  • Work for the Workplace Gender Equality Agency on data management

  • Work for the National Health Performance Authority on data governance, policies and procedures

  • Senior technical advisor for the National Health Reform Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) project

  • Analysis of user needs and development of a functional specification for the development of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's ISO/IEC 11179-based metadata registry project, named METeOR. To view METeOR click here. To view an acknowledgement of the Little Oak contribution click here.

  • Contributor to the development of the Ageing Research Online website. To view the ARO click here.

  • Development of a proposed National Minimum Data Set for Emergency Department care (ED NMDS) for the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.

  • Reviews of the Private Hospitals' Data Bureau and the National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) for the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.

  • A strategic review of the HealthWiz data product (Australia's National Social Health Database), conducted in conjunction with PHIDU for the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.

  • Development of a management information system and business data warehouse for the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care's Population Health Division.

  • Initial creator and designer of 'The Knowledgebase' (Australia's health, community services and housing metadata registry) as an employee of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

  • Leading development role and specification of National Minimum Data Sets (NMDS) for health and welfare data collections as an employee of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

  • Project Manager of the National Health Information Model (NHIM).

  • Past editor of the National Health Data Dictionary (NHDD).

  • Designer and developer of a database application for the Australian Honours System, including the Order of Australia and the Australian Bravery Decorations. For more information on the honours system click here.