AIHI has a big presence at HIC 2017 with a keynote and academic speakers

Staff from the Australian Institute of Health and Innovation were well represented at HIC 2017 held in Brisbane, 6 to 9 August. Eight senior staff and students delivered keynotes and academic presentations to health’s most forward-thinking innovators.

‘HIC is the premier national conference for health informatics in Australia. We were well represented this year. It’s a great opportunity to showcase our work and network with other colleagues in our field’ said Professor Enrico Coiera, Professor of Medical Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University.

Keynote speaker

Professor Johanna Westbrook
Director, Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research
"Cognitive informatics – understanding clinical work to design better systems."

Academic/Scientific presenters

Jessica Chen
Intern, Centre for Health Informatics
"Downtime in digital hospitals: An analysis of patterns and causes over 33 months."

Dr Melissa Baysari
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research
"Feedback and training to improve use of an electronic prescribing system: A randomised control trial."

Dr Blanca Gallego Luxan
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Informatics
"Precision medicine: Trends and applications."

Dr Maria Dahm
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research
"Point-of-care testing across rural and remote emergency departments in Australia: Staff perceptions of operational impact."

Dr Rae-Anne Hardie
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research
"User perceptions of the implementation of an electronic medication management system in a paediatric setting."

Tom Bowden
Founder and Director Healthlink and PhD student
"Secure Messaging/interoperability"

Julie Li
Research Assistant, Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research
"What factors determine the use of an electronic test result acknowledgement system? A qualitative study across two EDs."

Centres related to this news

Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research
Centre for Health for Health Informatics

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