1. CSIRO – e-Health NSW
DIGITAL PRODUCTIVITY AND SERVICES FLAGSHIP
David Hansen| CEO, Australian e-Health Research Centre
March 2014

2. The Australian e-Health Research Centre
Partnered for success
Australia’s leading national
eHealth research centre
• 60-70 staff, students, visiting
researchers
• Embedded in RBWH
Funding from
CSIRO
Queensland Health
Engagement partners
Success built on partnering -
Government, clinicians, industry

3. CSIRO e-Health and Health Services Research
Biomedical Imaging
• What: Improved image
analysis & image-based
clinical workflows
• How: Leveraging operational
& clinical data through
analytics, modelling, decision
support & automation
Mobile and Tele-Health
• What: Improving access to
services & management of
chronic diseases
• How: Service delivery
models utilising telehealth,
mobile health & remote
monitoring
Health Informatics
• What: Improving health
system performance &
productivity from
electronic health data
• How: Meaningful data
interoperability and
analysis for decision
support, analytics,
modelling and reporting
Clinically partnered, digitally enabled, services focussed

4. CSIRO e-Health in NSW
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5. CSIRO e-Health in NSW
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CSIRO NBN Telehealth Trial – 6 Sites
• Townsville
• Penrith
• Greater Western Sydney
• Canberra and ACT
• Ballarat and the Grampians
• Launceston / Northern Tasmania
Number of patients at each site
• 25 Test Patients
• 50 Control Patients
Total
• 150 Test patients
• 300 Control Patients
Trial Design
• Case Matched controls
• Before-After-Control-Impact (BACI)

6. • Use of clinical terminology in
electronic medical records
• Processing of medical narratives
CSIRO e-Health in NSW
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7. CSIRO: e-Health research partner
Australian Telehealth Conference, March 2014

8. DIGITAL PRODUCTIVITY AND SERVICES FLAGSHIP
Thank you
David Hansen
CEO, Australian e-Health Research Centre
t +61 7 3253 3610
e david.hansen@csiro.au
w www.csiro.au/healthservices