AusHSI was a proud sponsor of the 13th Health Services Research Conference. This year’s theme "Health Services Research in the Digital Age" highlighted the complexity of integrating digital innovations within health systems and AusHSI’s digital health research featured strongly throughout the program.
In the lead up to this year’s theme Health Services Research in the Digital Age, we have been unpacking the value of digital health research and highlighting AusHSI’s work in this space. Check out the HSR24 program and don't miss the AusHSI Implementation Science and Health Economics teams who will showcase research across several talks over the conference.
Known as the Costing Implementation Strategies instrument, Cost-IS provides practical guidance and tools for collecting data and estimating resource costs associated with implementation strategies in health services research.
With the surge in demand for digital health, health services are struggling to manage the requests which they receive daily for consideration. When resources are scarce and budgets restrictive, responding to these requests requires evidence-based approaches to ensure meaningful selections are made.
There are many reasons why patients may not be able to attend an appointment, and this complexity means there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Nevertheless, thoughtfully designed digital health solutions can improve healthcare efficiency and accessibility.
“Digital Health” has become a popular term that can conjure up images of code, touchscreens and futuristic hospitals. While there are certainly truisms to these tropes, it is really a vast umbrella label encompassing almost all aspects of contemporary healthcare, from sophisticated risk modelling to booking systems.
QUT Associate Professor Susanna Cramb was recently honoured with the Judges’ Award at the Queensland Women in STEM Prize Awards. Susanna received the Judges’ Award for her groundbreaking work in developing statistical methods to identify, understand, and address health inequities across Australia.
For many researchers, the journal is now the end game, with a focus on “where” to publish rather than “what”. Prof Adrian Barnett reflects on the true impact of research, why he’s taken journal titles off his CV and how one of his papers could have led to his parents getting a new boiler.
Over the past few months, AusHSI PhD students Pakhi Sharma, Jack Roberts, Ureni Halahakone, Sam Borg and Linh Vo have each been making an impact in their different fields of healthcare research. Congratulations to all on such fantastic achievements!
For Dr Eloise Hummell, AusHSI Research Fellow - Implementation Science, health services innovation is not about change for the sake of change, but about striving for improvement and achieving better outcomes for people within the constraints of available resources.
