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 [...]
This month we spoke with Angela Guo. Angela is a fourth year medical student at UNSW. She is currently undertaking her independent research year with the Sydney Children’s Community Health team. Please tell us a little about yourself My name is Angela and I’m a fourth year medical student at UNSW. I’m currently undertaking my independent [...]
Dr Naseem Ahmadpour is a lecturer in Interaction Design, at the School of Architecture, Design and planning, University of Sydney. Her research is interdisciplinary and broadly focused on design for health and wellbeing. Specifically, she explores opportunities for designing interactive devices and technologies that are motivating, fulfill psychological needs, and ultimately contribute to higher levels of [...]
The Cyberpsychology Research Group (CRG) at The University of Sydney is Australia’s first formal research team that investigates the impact of consumer technology (e.g. smartphones, video games, social networking, wearable technology, VR and AI, etc.) on human behaviour. This 45 minute webinar will cover the latest in cyberpsychology research across the world, including the impact of [...]
