Research Areas: Health Informatics

 

UMORE's research has a strong focus on the development, application and evaluation of information and communications technology (ICT) solutions to improve the safety and efficacy of health care delivery, including the use of medications. UMORE has conducted many projects, that all incorporate the use of ICT to improve the safety and efficacy of health care delivery, primarily in the area of medication usage. This research is being performed in a unique collaboration between university-based health and information system specialists, State Departments of Health and Human Services and Economic Development, health professionals and the local and national ICT industry. Over the past 3 years, the group has attracted external funding in health informatics. Recent projects completed or underway to date include:		L to R - Professor Greg Peterson, Dr Roger Rumble, Mark Nauton, Dr Omar Hasan, Luke Bereznicki, Shane Jackson, from the School of Pharmacy, part of the original Health Informatics Group.

		Medsafety - an innovative e-learning initiative in medication safety for health care professionals and students, commercialisation underway with Multi-Ed Medical Limited
		Pharmacy Guild of Australia/Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing: Government Community Pharmacy Agreement Funding (Third Community Pharmacy Agreement Research and Development Grants Program): Development and evaluation of a computerised system for the provision and documentation of pharmacists' cognitive services
		Pharmacy Guild of Australia/Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing: Government Community Pharmacy Agreement Funding (Third Community Pharmacy Agreement Research and Development Grants Program). Community Pharmacy Medication Incident Reporting and Management System establishing a national electronic database for medication-related incidents and pharmacists' clinical activities in the community setting; Promise 1 . A national electronic database for medication related incidents and pharmacists' clinical activities in community pharmacy
		Pharmacy Guild of Australia/Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing: Government Community Pharmacy Agreement Funding (Third Community Pharmacy Agreement Research and Development Grants Program). Medesupport - Facilitating QUM between hospital and community. A national program to improve communication flow between hospitals and the community setting to reduce adverse outcomes following hospital admission or discharge
		National Prescribing Service. “Program to promote the appropriate use of antibiotics in the hospital management of community-acquired pneumonia, utilising computerised decision support.”
		Pharmacy Guild of Australia/Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing: Government Community Pharmacy Agreement Funding (Third Community Pharmacy Agreement Research and Development Grants Program) Establishing and economically evaluating a national electronic database for medication-related incidents and pharmacists' clinical activities in the community setting; Promise II
		Pharmacy Guild of Australia/Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing: Government Community Pharmacy Agreement Funding (Third Community Pharmacy Agreement Research and Development Grants Program) Rural and Remote Pharmacy Infrastructure Grant Scheme. Innovative Marketing of Rural and Remote Pharmacy Practice via the Digital Medium
		Broadband Development Fund. “Remote monitoring of medication response (home-based self-monitoring by patients taking warfarin)”. in collaboration with Neuragenix Pty Ltd and Roche Diagnostics
		Delivering pharmacy services to rural and remote areas (in collaboration with Telstra, who are providing significant in-kind assistance with hardware and the satellite delivery of broadband)
		Electronic Pharmacy Communication Pathways Project (UMORE is a key collaborator in this project, with Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing funding of $2.2M close to finalisation)
		Asthma Targeted Intervention Grant; Data mining of community pharmacy dispensing records as a means to identify and educate patients with suboptimal management of asthma
		HealthConnect Warfarin monitoring project aimed at improving the management of Warfarin through an innovative information and communication technology (ICT) solution, in participating aged care facilities in the south of the State.

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