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My current research program concerns clinical health informatics with a particular emphasis on information security, eHealth tools and their contribution to best-practice health care methodologies in the health sector.
- SNOMED CT embedded into the health sciences curriculum. A proof of concept project
- Tailoring the eHealth applications to patients needs for the management of traumatic brain injury in Australia.
- Health information technologies in Aged Care facilities
- The natural hospital environment and information technology support services in practice settings
- Analyse the way clinicians work with the privacy and security of eHealth in the patient care context
- Translational informatics
- Wireless Devices in Clinical Environments
- Data, CIA and Training Individuals to use New and Emerging Media
- Factors influencing successful outcomes international medical students
- Using Social Networking technologies for reporting issues in Health Informatics research and education
- Computer games for health
- Study new and emerging technologies in patient care settings
- Clinical preparedness for eHealth.
- What are consumer eHealth concerns?
- The BMedSc quality improvement lifecycle. Ethics approval to re-use data underway.
CURRENT PROGRAM
To enhance the portability of eHealth terminology from University study to clinical practice nationally. Collaborators- George Kotsanas, Jennifer Lindley, Linda Dawson
Collaborators: John Olver, Jennie Ponsfard, Louise Farnsworth, Bianca Fidele, Jeremy Buckmaster
A workflow and patient care comparison of ICT and paper records in Aged Care facilities. Collaborators: Cathie Steele, Tanya Gilchrist
Study feedback from information technology (IT) support staff about the natural hospital environment (NHE) on eHealth security implementations
Collaborators:Walter Baggett, Lillie Shortridge-Baggett, Linda Dawson
Use standards-based protocols to link biomedical research to clinical patient care and vice versa (2008-11). Collaborator: Pengyi Yang, Doctoral candidate, University of Sydney
In 2008 several students from Fakultas Kedokteran, Universitas Indonesia commenced studying the Honours Degree of the Bachelor of Medical Science at Monash University, Australia. The international medical student outcomes, based on a competitive assessment process, are both successful and comparable to those achieved by Australian candidates. This work explores entrance and exit data collected from Australian and International students enrolled in the Honours Degree of the Bachelor of Medical Science at Monash University. This is an exploratory study asking: What program factors enhance student success? Are some variables more likely to predict student success than others? Collaborators: Jennifer Lindley, Ben Canny
This project will produce a set of short video podcasts (aka vidcasts, screencasts, etc) which discuss and report on recent issues in Health Informatics research and education. The aim is to explore new technology delivery of HIS related material using video, screen capture, and video podcasting to create vidcasts and to publish and share these vidcasts with the health informatics community using social networking environments such as YouTube, iTunes (and iTunes U), blogs, and wikis (2009).Collaboration with Linda Dawson
OTHER RESEARCH PROGRAMS AND INTERESTS
Analyse the role of computer games, such as Killer Flu from the UK, in supporting preventative health care initiatives, home health care efforts and health and wellbeing more generally
Analyse the application of an emerging technology to support community-based aged care(Underway). Agreements are being reviewed by the relevant authorities.
Analyse feedback from clinicians specialising various disciplines with regards to how prepared they feel for the national rollout eHealth and eHealth-linked initiatives. The first project, in the primary health care sector, is underway.
1. In conjunction with colleagues, analyse focus group discussion between the CIO of a large tertiary hospital using eHealth applications at a local level and consumer groups. What do consumers want to know? Do they have fears and are these valid? What ought hospitals using eHealth know about these individuals? What ought health authorities or software designers know about these consumers? (Awaiting ethics approval)
2. Pilot research - analayse feedback from focus group discussions between bioinformaticians and bridging applications developers on the one hand and consumers on the other hand. Series of focus groups as this is a green fields area. (Awaiting ethics approval)
