This month we spoke to Racha Dabliz. Racha is currently working as a Mental Health Pharmacist. Her research focuses on the evaluation of an Electronic Medication Management system implemented in the Intensive Care Unit in a NSW tertiary hospital. Racha won the Health Informatics Researcher Scholarship award at the Sydney Innovation and Research Symposium 2018. Please [...]
This month we spent five minutes with Associate Professor Simon Poon. Simon is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and IT; Program Director, Master of Health Technology Innovation, Master of Data Science (Acting); Co-Chair, Health & Wellbeing Research Cluster, China Studies Centre. Can you please tell us about a day in your life? [...]
How do we drive the future of clinical analytics embedded in practice? This interactive workshop will focus on the collaboration required between The University, Sydney Health Partners, and our service partners, in developing world-class shared clinical analytic capability. We will have examples from within Sydney Health Partners and input from our key stakeholders including eHealth NSW. Dr [...]
This month we profile Edward Johnson. Ed is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Director, Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health, and finalist in the Australian Allied Health Awards in the category of Speech Pathologist of the Year Please tell us a little about yourself? I’m an accidental speech pathologist. I fell into the job [...]
SPEED-EXTRACT (STEMI Patient ElEctronic Data EXTRACTion) SPEED-EXTRACT is a proof-of-concept project demonstrating that better use of data can improve patient health outcomes and reduce clinical variation. The project brings together a multidisciplinary team to bring to bear valuable insights from ever increasing amounts of heterogeneous clinical data and information stored in Electronic Medical Records. The overarching [...]
This month we talk to Dr Charmaine Tam, Senior Research Fellow and Project Manager for the SPEED-EXTRACT project. Can you please tell us about a day in your life? A typical day starts with getting my kids and I ready to go to daycare. I then head to the Centre for Translational Data Science or one [...]
We hope that you will be able to join us for a very special breakfast event Innovation in digital health: International perspectives on Tuesday 20th November, 2018 as we are joined by Dr Calum MacRae (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School) and Dr Ziad Obermeyer (University of California, Berkeley). How can technology drive personalised models [...]
Webinar invitation: Low back pain and knee osteoarthritis are the highest contributors to disability worldwide, impacting every aspect of a person’s life. Most treatment approaches to the management of low back pain and knee osteoarthritis offer small to moderate treatment effects at best. Conservative management is the cornerstone, however, it requires access to services and adherence [...]
The Australian Arthritis and Autoimmune Biobank Collaborative A3BC is a national network of state-of-the-art biobanking, longitudinal data collection/linkage, big-data analytics and decision support for enabling and translating innovative research discovery. The A3BC presents a comprehensive approach to evidence-based medicine by integrating broad multi-omic, patient-reported (partnered with the Australian Rheumatology Association Database - ARAD), medical and administrative health [...]
This month the Practice Analytics Node profiles Wilson Yeung. Wilson is currently the Implementation Manager for Health Analytics at eHealth NSW where he is part of the Data and Analytics Portfolio which was formed in March 2018. One of his primary responsibilities is managing the implementation of the NSW Health Analytics Framework which outlines the vision [...]
