Known as the Costing Implementation Strategies instrument, Cost-IS provides practical guidance and tools for collecting data and estimating resource costs associated with implementation strategies in health services research.
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.
The Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre has formed a Senior Academic Leaders Council, a national, cross-university network driving collaboration across digital health research and education.
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.
When patients fall, their health can decline rapidly. As part of his recently completed PhD, Rex Parsons explored a decision support tool that supports the provision of value-based health care, and discovered an interest in software development.
AusHSI PhD students attended the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre's Curiosity Camp at Lake Crackenback in NSW, which brought together emerging leaders, consumers, innovators and researchers to address real-world healthcare problems.
The AusHSI statistics team has developed two new Shiny applications to help researchers synthesise evidence for literature reviews and health economic modelling.
