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.
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.
Affecting one in three adults over 65 annually, falls can rob people of their independence and confidence, impacting on their fitness, health and wellbeing. My research aims to investigate factors affecting the use of fall-risk screening tools in the Emergency Department and their impact on patient outcomes.
Natalia started her PhD journey with research ideas that would help local councils in regional Australia to address the inequity barriers experienced by people with disabilities. Having now finished her PhD, she is certainly not done with the subject and more work is always needed in this field.
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.
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 June 2024, Dr Sunny Naicker was invited to speak at the Dutch National Implementation Science colloquium in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Sunny also visited the Amsterdam Centre for Implementation Science, and attended an invite-only knowledge translation meeting in Sweden.
One of Robin Blythe’s digital health PhD research objectives was to understand how to make clinical decision support systems more useful without adding to clinicians’ workloads, allowing them to spend their time on more meaningful work.
