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Faculty of Medicine and Health
Digital Health and Informatics Network
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DHIN Newsletter | Issue 38, December 2021
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Dear ,
Hello to all members of the DHIN and welcome to all the new members who have recently joined us. We have reached the final DHIN Newsletter for 2021 and I am looking forward to a 2022 that involves even more communication and collaboration across the network.
Registrations are open for Digital Health Week 2022 (DHW22) and the program is now online. If you haven’t already registered, then I would highly recommend doing so because it is an excellent opportunity to hear from not only the emerging researchers presenting their work but also debates among some of the leading thinkers in health informatics in Australia. I am biased but based on what I see in the program it has to be the best and most inspiring digital health meeting in Australia.
This year has also been a good year for celebrating successes in digital health at the University of Sydney. Some examples of recent successes include an award won by Audrey Wang’s team for their COVID e-gate project, the Sydney Nano Grand Challenge awarded to Corinne Caillaud with a co-investigator from Biomedical Engineering, representation across several of the successful Sydney Health Partners Clinical Academic Groups including the Virtual Care group co-led by Tim Shaw and Clara Chow. And my special congratulations go to Melissa Baysari, who was promoted to Professor.
As I do each newsletter, I would also encourage you to log in to the DHIN website and update your profile. This is the best way for people to find you, and for you to find them. It will also help us improve how we target curated lists of funding options as part of one of the projects we have for next year.
Wishing you all a happy holiday season regardless of how you choose to spend the time,
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NEWS
Digital health project successful as a Sydney Nano Institute “Grand Challenge”
The University of Sydney Nano Institute has announced four new multidisciplinary Grand Challenge projects starting next year with the aim of tackling emerging issues facing society, the economy and everyday life.
Sydney Nano will provide up to $150,000 to seed-fund the multidisciplinary team projects, supporting sustainable, long-term areas of research.
The project “Nanosensing Airborne Pathogens for Public Biosecurity” led by Professor Antonio Tricoli and Professor Corinne Caillaud aims to improve public biosecurity and pandemic preparedness through nanotechnology innovation, developing disruptive nanoscale sensing technologies for detection of airborne pathogens to upgrade public biosecurity standards and regulations.
Team: David Martin Martinez, Lisa Jackson Pulver, Steve Wise, Omid Kavehei, Simon Fleming, Troy Cross, Sveta Postnova, Justin Beardsley, Tania Sorrell, Alice Motion, Lee-Fay Low
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Virtual Care awarded “Clinical Academic Group” Status by Sydney Health Partners
Sydney Health Partners has commenced a new scheme, appointing six research translation collaborations as Clinical Academic Groups (CAGs). The Virtual Care CAG is led by Professor Tim Shaw (Research in Implementation Science and eHealth Group, University of Sydney) and Professor Clara Chow (Westmead Applied Research Centre, WSLHD). The virtual care CAG will identify priority implementation research questions in virtual care to address the research gaps and support the expansion of evidence-based virtual care across SHP acute and chronic disease services.
CAGs will deliver a program of activities which supports more rapid and systemic translation of research evidence into improved clinical practice and addresses the health and medical priorities of SHP’s health service partners. They will develop multi-disciplinary networks and build capacity for research translation, especially among early and mid-career clinician researchers. Each CAG will also receive seed funding to develop a collaborative research translation project for an externally funded grant application.
The six CAGs were chosen following a highly competitive process involving 35 applicant groups, representing 340 researchers from Sydney Health Partners’ 15 member organisations. Each application went through external review and eleven shortlisted candidates were subsequently interviewed before the final decisions were ratified by the Board of Sydney Health Partners.
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Global Digital Health Forum
The Global Digital Health Network (GDHN) virtually convened the Global Digital Health Forum (GDHF), bringing over 2,300 participants from more than 100 countries around the world. This year, Acting Assistant Administrator Jennifer Adams showcased how USAID is acting on the Digital Health Vision in a keynote speech. CII’s Digital Health team led and participated in a variety of events, including a presentation from Adele Waugaman on the need to assess digital systems through tools such as the Navigator for Digital Health Capability Models and a discussion with Merrick Schaefer on the ways in which games like Architects of Digital Health can teach us about how to plan for vaccine rollouts.
The Center for Innovation and Impact (CII) applies innovative, market-based, and digital health approaches to accelerate impact against critical health issues. CII incubates new ideas, puts them into practice, and scales effective approaches with diverse partnerships.
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Prize winners
Professor Melissa Baysari won the prize for best paper at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia’s annual conference: https://www.hfesa2021.org
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PROFILE: Adeola Bamgboje-Ayodele, PhD
I recently joined the University of Sydney as a Human Factors Research Fellow working with A/Prof Melissa Baysari, within the Biomedical Informatics and Digital Health theme. I am currently working on a Digital Health CRC project focused on using decision support for more responsive care, better patient outcomes and greater efficiency. My role is aimed at using human factors methods to determine how to improve the fit between clinical decision support systems, its users (typically but not limited to clinicians) and the entirety of their work system. My current research interests are in human factors, usability evaluation, implementation science, clinical decision support systems and virtual models of care.........MORE
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February 1: DHIN Seminar"Machine learning-based diagnosis in Dentistry: state of the art"Eduardo Delamare,
Lecturer in Dento-Maxillofacial Radiology and PhD Candidate at the Sydney Dental School
Date: Tuesday 1st February
Time: 11am-12pm
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The Digital Health Week 2022 program is now available and aims to explore the mismatch between real life and the potential of technology to support health and wellbeing.
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Position available - Digital Health Design Team Attention graduating students or post-docs with expertise in co-design and sociotechnical techniques in clinical informatics: Research Fellow or Senior Research Fellow- Digital Health Design Team Lead position at the University of Melbourne
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Publishing Computable Knowledge
Learning Health Systems welcomes submission of your open source models, phenotypes, and algorithms for publication as computable artifacts accompanying a written manuscript. The publication policy for "Computable Knowledge" papers is available here on the Journal's website. Computable knowledge papers may be submitted at any time.
A more complete range of computable knowledge types that are eligible for publication includes: regression models, algorithms, computable phenotypes and guidelines, workflows, and policies; decision trees; calculators; Bayesian networks; and models derived from machine learning such as neural networks.
Submission is a two-step process, as detailed in this excerpt from the policy. The first step requires a brief proposal that will be quickly evaluated to be sure the proposed submission is in scope. The second step is the submission of the manuscript itself along with the computable artifact and instructions for testing it.
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Australian Digital Health Agency request for tender: Delivery of a digital health solution
The COVID-19 Innovation Fund is an Australian Government initiative to procure new and emerging digital health solutions that align with the national COVID-19 vaccine rollout and future proof Australia’s healthcare system. The Innovation Fund targets opportunities to make a difference through addressing barriers that we are seeing today and using digital health solutions to make new ways of working more efficient and effective.
The Innovation Fund supports digital health solutions targeting specific cohorts struggling to access information about the COVID-19 vaccine and to access a vaccination. This includes, but is not limited to, vulnerable populations such as multicultural communities, the homeless and other hard to reach groups.
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15 Postdoc Fellowships available at the intersection of Data Science and Neurology
Deadline 19 Jan 2022
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Recent Publications
Butler AA, Robertson LS, Wang AP, Gandevia SC, Héroux ME (2021) Do interoception and attending to the upper limbs affect body ownership and body representation in the grasp illusion?. PLOS ONE 16(11): e0259988. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259988
Kinlay M, Ho LM, Zheng WY, Burke R, Juraskova I, Moles R, Baysari MT. Electronic medication management systems: Analysis of enhancements to reduce errors and streamline workflow. Applied Clinical Informatics, 2021. 12(5): 1049-1060. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34758493/
Patterson, T., Turner, J., Gnjidic, D., Mintzes, B., Baysari, M., Bennett, C., Bywaters, L., Clavisi, O., Ferreira, M., Beckenkamp, P., & Ferreira, P. Consumer focused education on paracetamol side effects, inadequate outcomes and weaning for individuals with low back pain: protocol for a feasibility study. International Journal of Clinical Trials 2021, 8(4), 292-300. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2349-3259.ijct20214108
Van Dort B, Baysari MT, Prgomet M, Zheng WY, Raban MZ, Dalla-Pozza L, McCullagh C, Westbrook J. Impact of electronic medication management on the physical location of work in a paediatric setting. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2021. 286:72-76
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