HIKM 2020 Tutorial 2 Introduction to Digital Health Research

Introduction to Digital Health Research

This tutorial provides an introduction to Digital Health/Health informatics. This will appeal to participants active in research in a field of information technology or health sciences who are considering adapting their research to digital health. The tutorial will also appeal to healthcare practitioners or academics interested in understanding the challenges and fields of research in digital health.

 Topics covered are:

• The Health Care system in 21st Century and its challenges,
• Electronic Health Records;
• Health Care Standards, HL7 (Health Level Seven), FHIR, openEHR;
• Computational intelligence;
• Consumer Health Informatics and the place of Telemedicine;
• Patient monitoring and care systems;
• Clinical Decision-Support Systems and Medical Education;
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine Informatics

A/Prof Andrew Stranieri 

Federation University

 Associate Professor Andrew Stranieri leads the Health Informatics Laboratory, Centre for Informatics and Applied Optimisation at Federation University Australia. His research in health informatics spans data analytics in health, complementary and alternative medicine informatics, remote patient monitoring, telemedicine and intelligent decision support systems. He is the author of over 200 peer reviewed journal and conference articles and has published three books.

A/Prof Tony Sahama

 My research engagements are Information Accountability, Health Information Privacy, and Security, Cybersecurity and Healthcare Information Technology (e.g., Digital Health, Health Informatics, Medical Informatics, eHealth and Health Information Systems Design, Development and Deployment). I am committed to sharing knowledge and experiences that I have acquired with people and the society. I am a team player, passionate academic, dedicated mentor and research supervisor engaging in transdisciplinary research activities to facilitate collaborative practice-based inquiry of learning and research endeavours.