AIHI Webinar Series - Long COVID – utilising near real-time electronic general practice data to establish effective care and best-practice policy

Long COVID – utilising near real-time electronic general practice data to establish effective care and best-practice policy

31st May 2023

11am - 12pm

View the recording on AIHI YouTube.

Up to 10% of people who have had COVID-19 may continue to experience symptoms for more than three months with a condition known as Long COVID. In an Australian first initiative into the emergence and prevalence of Long COVID, and how this can be best managed in general practice, Macquarie University is working with the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre, Outcome Health and four primary health networks in NSW and Victoria.

Professor Andrew Georgiou from the Australian Institute of Health Innovation is leading analysis for the project which he will outline during this webinar.

Associate Professor Christopher Pearce, Research Director, Aurora Primary Care Research Institute, will speak about the lack of broad understanding around Long COVID and the importance of providing GPs with the evidence to better diagnosis and care for people with Long Covid.

Speakers:

Professor Andrew Georgiou is a health informatics researcher with a strong international research profile in the areas of outcome measurement, aged care informatics, quality and safety, diagnostic informatics and organisational communications research. He also led an earlier project with the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre and Outcome Health providing near-real time data on how general practices were being impacted during the pandemic.

Associate Professor Christopher Pearce is a practising clinician in general practice, emergency medicine and anaesthetics. He is also a health informatician, with an international standing in the fields of data, workflow and usability. In Outcome Health he assists with the development of research infrastructure, and in the POLAR program, particularly in the area of data governance. A/Professor Pearce is also the Chair of the Digital Health Committee of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine.

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