Health Informatics

Central Queensland University

Central Queensland

University

Rockhampton


Current Research Projects

Title Research Team

Advancing Electronic Health Records through coordinated development of openEHR archetypes

  • Developing a standard process for capturing expert knowledge using openEHR archetypes
  • Transforming Clinical Data Sets into openEHR archetypes to support automatic coding evaluation
  • Representing Healthcare concepts: building nursing archetypes at an acute care setting, Melbourne Victoria Australia.
  • Capturing Expert Aged Care Knowledge in a computer processable format: enabling data retrieval for multiple uses

Cooperation: Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria; Tineke Carr, Djerriwarrh Health Services, Bacchus Marsh, Victoria; Ocean Informatics, Australia, as well as several Chilean universities and hospitals.

Evelyn Hovenga
Sebastian Garde
Carola Hullin Lucay-Cossio
Heather Grain
Janice Staehr
Alejandro Gigoux

Development of an International Nursing Minimum/essential Data Set (I-NMDS) as Australia's team leader.

Cooperation: International Medical Informatics Association's Nursing Informatics special interest group (sponsor) and the International Council of Nurses (ICN). The steering committee is chaired by Dr Connie Delaney, University of Iowa.

Evelyn Hovenga

Supporting Domain Knowledge Governance for openEHR archetypes with Information Technology

Cooperation: Ocean Informatics, Australia

Sebastian Garde
Sam Heard
Jana Gränz
Anja Tropp
Evelyn Hovenga

Intelligent Agents and Wireless Technologies in Healthcare Delivery for Patient Safety

Cooperation: Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria

Carola Hullin Lucay-Cossio
Evelyn Hovenga

ValEHRia: Validating Electronic Health Records incorporating archetypes

Validating the openEHR approach for computer-analysable Electronic Patient Records and clinical research

  • Converting Clinical Data Sets into openEHR archetypes using the example of Paediatric Oncology in Germany
  • Integrated Design of Electronic Patient Records for family-oriented care supporting the development of premature babies at the University Medical Centre of Heidelberg, Germany.

Cooperation: PD Dr. Petra Knaup, Department of Medical Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Sebastian Garde
Standards Australia work item IT-14-2:
Development of standards and guidelines for e-communication between healthcare providers and consumers
Evelyn Hovenga
Carola Hullin Lucay-Cossio
Sebastian Garde
Standards Australia work item IT-14-2:

Clinical concept presentation

Evelyn Hovenga
Carola Hullin Lucay-Cossio

 

Current PhD Projects

Title Research Team
Minimising unintended clinical events using electronic health records in head and neck cancer care.

Pratima Poudel Acharya
(Supervisors: Evelyn Hovenga, Sebastian Garde)

Determinants of Technology Adoption in Healthcare Organizations: An Exploratory Case Study of An Advanced Telephone System Used by Nurses Suzanne Craig
(Supervisors: Evelyn Hovenga, Greg Whymark
)
Investigation of user requirements for morbidity reporting in the electronic health record environment: possibilities for automation

Heather Grain
(Supervisors: Evelyn Hovenga, Sebastian Garde)

Knowledge management in health care industry – from the patient's perspective

Mee Yong Ho
(Supervisors: Evelyn Hovenga, Sebastian Garde)

Security Policy Implementation and the Protection of Privacy in Australian Health Care

Maria Madsen
(Supervisor: Evelyn Hovenga, Sebastian Garde )

 

Recently Completed Research Projects

Title Research Team
The integration and expansion of openEHR archetype tools for systematic development and maintenance of openEHR archetypes

Jana Gränz
Sebastian Garde
Sam Heard

Standards Australia work items now published as standards:
AS 4846-2006 Health Care Provider Identification
AS 5017-2006 Health Care Client Identification

Jessica Ho
Development of a Prototype User Interface Generator for the openEHR-initiative based on archetypes

Thilo Schuler
Sebastian Garde
Sam Heard

Pilot study for the Adoption of a Simulated Integrated Health Care Information System for educational purposes

Cooperation: Faculty of Arts, Health and Science, Central Queensland University

Evelyn Hovenga
Kieren Jamieson
Dawn Hay
Dolene Rossi
Sebastian Garde
Australian Skill Needs Analysis of Health Informatics Professionals Sebastian Garde
Evelyn Hovenga
David Harrison

Research Grants/Tenders

2006: Advancing Electronic Health Records through archetypes. Grant of the Faculty of Business and Informatics, Central Queensland University (Evelyn Hovenga, Sebastian Garde, Carola Hullin, Heather Grain)
2006-8: Intelligent Agents and Wireless Technologies in Healthcare Delivery for Patient Safety. RAAS Grant Central Queensland University (Evelyn Hovenga, Carola Hullin)
2005/6 Electronic Health Records for Australia: Development of an online repository for the management of clinical domain knowledge. Seed Grant of the Research Development and Incentives Program, Central Queensland University. (Sebastian Garde; Mentor: Evelyn Hovenga; Partner Investigator: Sam Heard)

2005 Advancing open Electronic Health Records: the Development of an Archetype Finder for the open EHR-initiative. CQU Faculty Small Research Grant. (Sebastian Garde)

2005 Develop, demonstrate and manage clinically approved archetypes for national communication and Interoperability. Joint tender with Ocean Informatics and McCauley Software for the General Practice Computing Group (GPCG) (Sam Heard, David Rowed, Peter Schloeffel, Evelyn Hovenga, Sebastian Garde, Vincent McCauley)
2005 Development of a unified and easy maintainable resource website for all HLTH courses . CQU Faculty Teaching and Learning Grant (Evelyn Hovenga, Sebastian Garde)
2005 Electronic Communication for Health: Implementation Guidelines. CQU Faculty Research Training Small Grant (Evelyn Hovenga, Sebastian Garde)
2004/5 Adoption of a Simulated Integrated Health Care Information for education purposes: Development of a Business Case Cerner/IBM project. CQU Faculty Grant (Evelyn Hovenga)
2005 Fostering Open Electronic Health Records: The Development of a User Interface Generator for the openEHR-Initiative. CQU Faculty Small Research Grant. (Sebastian Garde)
2004 A Survey of Academic and Industry Professionals Regarding the Preferred Skillset of Graduates of Medical Informatics Programs. CQU Faculty Research Grant (Evelyn Hovenga, Sebastian Garde)
2004 HealthConnect, a joint Commonwealth, State and Territory initiative: Evaluation of Consumer and Provider Perspectives for those involved in the HealthConnect North Queensland Trial. (Evelyn Hovenga, David Harrison, Ken Howah, Mohammed Huque)
2002 Commonwealth Department of Health and Aging, Research and Provide Expert Advice on work that has been undertaken both nationally and internationally of relevance to the development of Australian clinical event summaries
2002 Commonwealth Department of Health and Aging, Research and Provide Expert Advice on Standards relevant to electronic health records and the roles, current directions and priorities of major international standards organisations (including Standards Australia) regarding health information standards relevant to EHRs.
2001 Faculty Advancement/Top-up Grant to study Cost Determination: Development of a Methodology to Allocate Academic Input Costs Relative to Output Activities. Co-recipient Dr Greg Whymark
2000 Faculty Research Grant to study relationships between patient acuity, outcomes of nursing care, nurse staffing levels and skillmix variables for selected groups of patients in a teaching hospital. Co-recipient Dr Kevin Tickle.
1999 and 2000 Faculty Research Grant to study first year students' computer attitudes and experiences. Co-recipient Dr Kevin Tickle
1998 Rockhampton District Health Services successful tender to conduct an Employee Opinion Survey Consultancy Project. Co-recipient Dr. Kevin Tickle
1998 Faculty Research Grant to conduct a National Review of IT Education for Health Professionals
1997 University Research Grant to research if there is a link between patient acuity, outcomes and nursing skill mix at the Prince Charles hospital in Brisbane. Co-recipient Ms Sandra Walker, Lecturer Faculty of Health Science.
1995 Queensland Health consultancy contract to review and update standard time values associated with each PAIS nurse dependency category for general medical/surgical and midwifery patients.
1993 Research Incentive Grant from the Faculty of Health Science to develop an object oriented database for a Nursing Data Dictionary and Thesaurus - Co recipient Bruce Shannon Lecturer Faculty of Health Science.
1993 Casemix Study Grant from the Commonwealth Department of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community Service under the Casemix Development Program - Co recipient Dr. Greg Whymark
1990 and 1991 Private Hospitals Association of Victoria consultancy contract for research into hospital nursing work which led to the development of a point factor position evaluation system for nurses now used in 35 private hospitals