The Hon. Zed Seselja, Assistant Minister for Science, Jobs and Innovation, announced today that the Government will invest $55 million through its Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) program to further develop Australia’s growing Digital Health technology and services industry. The Digital Health CRC was one of only four CRC’s funded in this round. The Digital Health CRC
Health PhD candidate Mohammad Pulok has recently presented a summary of his PhD papers at the University of Toronto for the March Canadian Centre for Health Economics Seminar. Mohammad’s PhD uses horizontal inequity to conduct the fairness of Medicare healthcare services in the era of greater private healthcare financing in Australia. The presentation outlined the
Congratulations to our health PhD James John, who published his paper in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. John’s paper provides an understanding of the various social determinants and health behavioural risk factors associated with dental caries among primary school children in the rural community of Lithgow. Mr James John partners with
Health IT News has published David Jonas’s article on their online magazine. In this article Mr Jonas highlights that there is a strong case for digital health research and development that will improve individuals’ and communities’ health and well being, and this can advance the Australian economy by helping to enable a more connected, transparent and competitive
The 10th Health Services and Policy Research Conference was held from 1-3 November 2017 at Surfers Paradise Marriott on the Gold Coast. The conference theme was “Shifting priorities: balancing acute and primary care services”. The conference was presented by the Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand and hosted by the Australian Centre
Professor Libby Roughead from University of South Australia shared some of her valuable experiences and topical insights into the issue of medication management at CMCRC recently with selected industry partners and researchers. Professor Roughead is the lead academic on medication management in the proposed Digital Health CRC. The result of the first round bid for
Extraction of concepts present in patient clinical records is an essential step in clinical research. The 2010 i2b2/VA Workshop on Natural Language Processing Challenges for clinical records presented concept extraction (CE) task, with aim to identify concepts (such as treatments, tests, problems) and classify them into predefined categories. State-of-the-art CE approaches heavily rely on hand
Governments as well as health and accident compensation insurers are grappling to improve health outcomes while keeping spiralling costs under control. These seemingly irreconcilable goals require a careful balance of policy to help stem the tide of ever increasing costs in the health industry. Dr Uma Srinivasan CMC Insurance Solutions CMC Lead Scientist Keywords: Health insurance,
A patient-centric approach to healthcare leads to an informal social network among medical professionals. This chapter presents a research framework to: identify the collaboration structure among physicians that is effective and efficient for patients; discover effective structural attributes of a collaboration network that evolves during the course of providing care; and explore the impact of
The healthcare sector deals with large volumes of electronic data related to patient services. This article describes two novel applications that leverage big data to detect fraud, abuse, waste, and errors in health insurance claims, thus reducing recurrent losses and facilitating enhanced patient care. The results indicate that claim anomalies detected using these applications help