Health Informatics Evaluation: Evaluating Electronic Health Record Deployments
Summary
Deployment of electronic health record systems will have many impacts on clinical practice and have the potential to make improvements to the quality of health care, safety, efficiency and patient experience. This PhD research opportunity will allow you to engage with current national developments in health record deployment and contribute to the important and contemporary research in this area.
Supervisor(s)
Research Location
Health Systems and Global Populations Research Group
Program Type
PHD
Synopsis
Electronic Health Records promise to allow new capabilities within the health system. However many technical, health workflow, security and privacy issues remain to be addressed. This project will allow the candidate to contribute to evaluating deployments of electronic health records currently underway. Health informatics issues to be considered include clinical workflow, patient safety and organizational dynamics. Collection of data from partner sites and analysis will support findings with relevance to contemporary Australian developments but also of international interest.
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Keywords
health informatics, social science, sociology, PHR, PCEHR, e-health, eHealth, electronic health records, Health informatics evaluation, personal health records, Mobile computing, Pervasive computing
Opportunity ID
The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is: 1290
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