InnoWell is a joint venture between The University of Sydney and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) working on co-designing, building and implementing technology-enabled solutions for Australian mental health services reform. The technology solution is known as the Synergy Online System (Synergy). More specifically, Synergy is a customisable digital toolkit to assist assessment, monitoring and management of mental health issues [...]
Congratulations to all of the DHIN members involved in the successful bid for funding from the Australian Digital Health Agency, with the Western Sydney Cardiology Care Test Bed. The Cardiology Test Bed project is one of 15 new projects that uses information gathered from consenting individuals to examine how My Health Record can be a system that [...]
By Anna Janssen This month the Practice Analytics Node profiles Associate Professor Rodrigo Cavalcanti. Rodrigo is Associate Professor in General Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto. His research interests include trainee competence assessment, clinical reasoning and applications of cognitive load theory in medical education. Rodrigo was asked five quick questions about Practice Analytics: What does [...]
This month we profile PhD student Stephen McCloskey. Stephen's research is a data-driven multidisciplinary project analysing sleep disorders using machine learning techniques to identify quantitative characteristics. Please tell us a little about yourself I am a current PhD student at University of Sydney that was born and raised in Sydney. I graduated in 2016 from University [...]
The DHIN Operations Committee meets weekly and oversees the general running of the Digital Health and Informatics Network, including digital health projects with the hospitals and LHDs, digital health scoping exercises, funding opportunities and events and marketing. This Committee is made up of a core group of nine members with a wide range of experience in [...]
This month we spent 5 minutes with Nicholas Ho. Nick is the translational data scientist at the Brain and Mind Centre. Can you please tell us about a day in your life? As the translational data scientist at the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney, I provide data science support for research projects [...]
Event Report By Anna Janssen This month Researcher Australia launched its inaugural speaker series event ‘Is New South Wales ready to harness the transformative power of data in health and medical research?' to a full house of health professionals and researchers. The event featured panellists Dr Jean-Frédéric Levesque, Professor Emily Banks, Dr Avi Ratnanesan and consumer representative [...]
The DHIN Steering Committee is made up of representatives from each of the University of Sydney health faculties, Sydney Health Partners, the Australian Digital Health Agency, eHealth NSW, Centre for Translational Data Science, Brain and Mind Centre, Menzies, Local Health Districts and the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network. The Steering Committee meets quarterly and brings together key [...]
This month we profile PhD student Genevieve Johnsson. Genevieve is a psychologist with Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect) who is currently completing a PhD focussing on tele-health. Please tell us a little about yourself I have been practising as a psychologist with Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect) for the past nine years and am currently in the role of Senior Therapy Support - Innovation. My current [...]
Project Report: A Newborn Bayesian My name is Joseph Hanna and I’m currently working on a collaborative project involving members from the Kolling Institute of Medical Research (Kolling) and the Centre for Translational Data Science (CTDS). I’m a trainee biostatistician from the NSW Ministry of Health on a 6 month placement with the Kolling as part [...]
