Please join us for the November DHIN Seminar. This month we are thrilled to have A/Prof Kylie Lee of the CRE Indigenous Health and Alcohol at The University of Sydney FMH Central Clinical School. The Talk: There is a severe lack of accurate data on patterns of drinking among Indigenous Australians. The most reliable data is [...]
This month we profile DHIN member Dr Shima Ghassem Pour. Shima is Lead Data Scientist in the Research in Implementation Science and eHealth Group (RISe) in the Faculty of Medicine and Health. Can you please tell us about a day in your life? A working day for me starts at 6:00am. I check my emails, review [...]
The Faculty of Health Science's eHealth and Healthcare Delivery Research Theme has grown and broadened, making it hard for members to stay on top of all the excellent research being done. To facilitate sharing of ideas and collaboration, we are holding an ‘eHealth and Healthcare Delivery Theme Showcase' and creating a corresponding theme directory. Everyone is [...]
This month we profile PhD candidate Caitlin Hamilton. Caitlin is an occupational therapist who is currently completing her PhD on the topic of technology use in rehabilitation to improve physical function. We asked Caitlin a little bit about herself and her research. Please tell us a little about yourself Since graduating in 2008 as an occupational [...]
This month we spend five minutes with Dr Audrey P Wang. Audrey is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Health (Education), University of Sydney. Her role includes enabling digital health educational and research transformations within the University's Westmead Initiative, including new interdisciplinary models of care and education in our increasingly digitalised health ecosystem. Her PhD (Australian Pain [...]
The eHealth and Healthcare Delivery Theme (FHS) and the DHIN would like to invite you to the first in the webinar series supporting Higher Degree Research students. Please join us for the inaugural webinar presentation on raising your research profile. Professor Tim Shaw and Dr Melanie Keep will share strategies and ideas on how to make [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
