Assessing and researching Digital health capability maturity of organisations and competencies of individuals
Clinical informatics defined to include telehealth, mobile health (mHealth), big data analytics, decision support and artificial intelligence;
Ethical, legal and social issues associated with Digital Health and artificial intelligence;
Integrated person-centred care with a focus on safety, quality, access and equity; and
Cross cultural health
Research Interests:
Digitally enhanced general practice and integrated person-centred care to optimise management of acute and chronic diseases and promote health and safety and quality of care of individuals. Digital information collected as part of routine health care can and should be quality assessed and used to personalise care as well as guide evidence-based policy and population health. Interoperability and quality of digital data and...view more
Research Interests:
Digitally enhanced general practice and integrated person-centred care to optimise management of acute and chronic diseases and promote health and safety and quality of care of individuals. Digital information collected as part of routine health care can and should be quality assessed and used to personalise care as well as guide evidence-based policy and population health. Interoperability and quality of digital data and tools working off a standards-based enterprise architecture and service platform is a fundamental requirement to harness digital technologies for individual and population health. Digitalisation should consider ethical, legal and sociotechnical issues.
Broad Research Areas:
Health Informatics, Ethics, Primary Health Care, Clinical Research, Cross-cultural Health, Indigenous Health, Population Health
Society Memberships & Professional Activities:
Fellow, Royal Australian College of General Practice, Foundation Fellow, Australian College of Health Informatics, International Fellow (elected) American College of Medical Informatics
Specific Research Keywords:
General practice, Primary Health Care, Integrated care, Clinical Informatics, Safety, Quality, Translational Research, Clinical Decision Making, Cross-cultural health, Indigenous Health
My Grants
Current activities:
1. "Digital health maturity and Capacity building" with WHO HQ (Geneva), WHO WPRO (Manila) and WHO Department of Pacific Support (Fiji).
2. NHMRC Partnership Grant "Unifying and quality assuring disparate digital data sets through a common data model" with NPS MedicineWise, GP Synergy, Central & Eastern PHN and South Western Sydney LHD.
My Qualifications
MBBS
PhD
FRACGP
FACHI
FAIDH
FACMI
FIAHSI
Grad Dip AICD
My Research Activities
Digital health maturity of organisations and individuals (competencies)
Quality and interoperability of digital data and tools
Digital Global Health and Digital health diplomacy
Digital public goods
Universal Health Coverage and Sustainable Development Goals
Capacity building, training and education in health informatics
My Research Supervision
Supervision keywords
Areas of supervision
The World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre on eHealth has defined eHealth (or digital health) to include telehealth, mobile health (mHealth), data analytics, blockchain technology, decision support and artificial intelligence. As Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre on eHealth, my areas of supervision are research into the use of eHealth to improve integrated person-centred health care and service delivery to individuals and populations, safety and quality of care, access and equity to achieve universal health coverage and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The population of interest are cross-cultural and underserved populations. The preferred methodology is mixed quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and realist approaches to evaluation and analyses.
Currently supervising
PhD student topics include:
- global eHealth, social enterprise, citizen and community engagement to facilitate integrated person-centred health services;
- functional specifications of clinical information systems to support shared care of colorectal cancer survivors;
- natural language processing to support data-driven decision support for coronary artery disease;
- community readiness to adopt and use mobile health in rural Bangladesh;
- ontologies to improve data quality in systems to optimise the management of chronic disease
Projects using the UNSW electronic Practice Based Research Network (ePBRN) repository of data from clinical information systems:
- doctor-shopping and questionable use of opioid medications;
- atrial fibrillation and risk of stroke and other morbidity,
- common data models, including interoperability standards, for health information exchange;
- predictive models of admission and readmission of patients with chronic disease;
- researching continuity of care through record linkage
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