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FACING FEDERATION: STREAMLINING APPLICATIONS AND APPROVALS FOR CROSS-JURISDICTIONAL DATA LINKAGE IN AUSTRALIA.

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Speaker: Dr Felicity Flack, PHRN Seminar Date: Tuesday October 17 12:00pm Brief abstract: The Population Health Research Network (PHRN) has been funded via the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), in collaboration with universities, as well as state and territory governments, to develop national data linkage infrastructure for Australian researchers. In 2013-14 the PHRN Program Office consulted with the

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BMI – DIGITAL HEALTH AND INFORMATICS

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Speaker: Tim Shaw Seminar Date: Tuesday September 26 12:00pm Short Bio: Tim is the inaugural Professor of eHealth and Director of Research in Implementation Science and eHealth Group (RISe) in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney. He is an internationally recognised leader in the impact of technology on healthcare and translation of evidence into practice

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SPRINGDAY: ENGAGEMENT, DATA AND CHANGE

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Speaker: Georgie Drury & Anita Grindlay (from startup Sprinday) Seminar Date: Tuesday September 19 12:00pm Brief abstract: To put it simply, Springday powers wellbeing.  We use technology to engage with individuals by creating an ecosystem of wellbeing resources, gamified challenges and activities, software and hardware integrations, face-to-face services and benefits. Forrester Consulting, Thought Leadership Paper, The Dawn of Data-Driven

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POLITICS AND VALUE IN HEALTH CARE

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Speaker: Kelsey Chalmers, University of Sydney Seminar Date: Tuesday August 15 12:00pm Brief abstract: Decisions regarding health care funding and how to get value for our health care dollars are highly political. In this lecture, I will discuss the motivation and evidence for Australia’s Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review, how it’s been established, and stakeholders’ involvement and reaction to

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COULD PROVIDING MORE CHOICE FOR PUBLIC PATIENTS DRIVE HOSPITAL QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS IN AUSTRALIA?

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Speaker: Henry Cutler, Macquarie University Seminar Date: Tuesday August 8 12:00pm Brief abstract: Publically funded elective surgery patients in Australia have little informed choice when seeking hospital care. They have limited information on hospital quality and are generally directed towards their local public hospital, where they are treated by doctors nominated by the hospital. International research suggests patients want

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ALIGNING INCENTIVES OF PHYSICIANS: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF TWO-PART TARIFFS AND SEPARATION OF PRESCRIPTION AND TREATMENT IN HEALTH CARE MARKETS

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Speaker: Le (Lyla) Zhang, Macquarie Graduate School of Management Seminar Date: Tuesday July 25 12:00pm Brief abstract: Health care is a credence good, and its market is plagued by asymmetric information. In this study, we use a laboratory experiment to investigate whether a two-part tariff pricing (TPT) and a separation of prescription and treatment activities (SPD) can mitigate the

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MEASURING ACCESSIBILITY AND ACCIDENT RISK IN MELBOURNE METROPOLITAN AREA

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Speaker: Sara Moridpour, RMIT Seminar Date: Tuesday July 11 12:00pm Brief abstract: Converting routine motorised travels to public transport trips, walking, and cycling as well as reducing the number of traffic accidents have been suggested as the main solutions to improve the sustainability of transportation systems. The importance of physical activity and its impacts on health has not only

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INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND RETRIEVAL FOR DECISION MAKING IN HEALTH

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Speaker: Sarvenaz Karimi, Data61 Seminar Date: Tuesday July 4 12:00pm Brief abstract: A large portion of healthcare related data contains text, such as progress notes, reports of adverse drug reactions, clinical biomedical literature, and death certificates. Biomedical text mining has been focusing on extracting information from these resources and transforming them to actionable inference. In this talk, two projects will be covered: (1) information extraction from adverse drug reaction

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