This month we profile Karen Cochrane. Karen is a PhD candidate in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. She is also a member of the Cyberpsychology Research Group. Karen's research focuses on building interactive ambient nature soundscapes to teach beginners mindfulness meditation. Please tell us a little about yourself My [...]
This month we spend five minutes with Dr Christina Marel. Christina is Program Lead for Treatment and Translation in Complex Populations at The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use Can you please tell us about a day in your life? Every day is different, but most begin at The Matilda Centre for [...]
This month the Practice Analytics Node profiles Aisling Forrest. Aisling commenced her career as a microbiologist, but after gaining an interest in software, she completed a Higher Diploma in Software Design and Development, and quickly moved into the discipline of what used to be known as ‘Health Informatics’. Aisling completed a Masters in Health Informatics in [...]
On Tuesday 19th February approximately 130 eHealth experts and enthusiasts packed out the vintage Carslaw Lecture Theatre to attend the inaugural eHealth@Sydney Conference. The keynote for the day was Professor Neil Coulson, Professor of Health Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK. Professor Coulson spoke on coping with illness in the digital age and the role of online [...]
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 [...]
