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.
A Queensland Diabetes Footcare Hubs (Q DFootHubs) project has been awarded $1.3M from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) under its Partnership Projects program to evaluate novel rural outreach services.
A collaborative research project led by QUT and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service (ATSICHS) Brisbane has been awarded $1,332,594.60 in funding through the 2023 NHMRC Partnerships Projects program.
AusHSI recently hosted its inaugural Implementation Science in the Real World Colloquium. Headlined by world-leading experts Prof Gregory Aarons and Prof Trish Greenhalgh, the Colloquium presented the latest research and evidence on how health services can better implement, measure, and sustain change.
In an op-ed titled "Why I’ve removed journal titles from the papers on my CV" for the widely read journal Nature, AusHSI statistician Prof Adrian Barnett has called for a novel way to shift the focus from where academic research is published to what the research has actually found.
