Innovating Healthcare: Next-generation Personal Health Record Architectures
Summary
Personal Health Records promise to allow greater control by individuals of their own health information. However many technical, health workflow, security and privacy issues remain to be addressed. This project will investigate innovative approaches to providing more flexible and self-managed storage of personal health information.
Supervisor(s)
Research Location
Health Systems and Global Populations Research Group
Program Type
Masters/PHD
Synopsis
Personal Health Records promise to allow greater control by individuals of their own health information. However many technical, health workflow, security and privacy issues remain to be addressed. This project will investigate innovative approaches to providing more flexible and self-managed storage of personal health information.The intersection of health informatics, computational science and health innovation promises to provide many benefits and novel solutions in terms of patient safety, healthy living, improvements to preventative care, early detection and health system wide efficiencies and improvements.Furthermore, the increasing data richness of electronic health records, the application of novel processing approaches and the resultant improved information available to all health stakeholders promises a multitude of improvements to health care.
Additional Information
HICIL Research Lab
http://www.fhs.usyd.edu.au/health_informatics_statistics/computation_innovation/about.shtml
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Keywords
health informatics, computer science, electronic health records, Mobile computing, e-health, Pervasive computing
Opportunity ID
The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is: 934
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