Digital Transformation of Healthcare Delivery
Leveraging the latest advances in digital technologies, AI and ML to empower superior, high value, patient-centred healthcare.
Healthcare delivery is facing many challenges including escalating costs, an aging population, a rapid rise in chronic non-communicable disease conditions and significant skilled workforce shortages. Leveraging the ongoing and dramatic advances in digital technologies offers the exciting potential and promise to address and significantly overcome these challenges. By doing so, we can keep everyone stronger for longer, provide personalised and precise healthcare and wellness support that is also high fidelity, high touch and high value.
Led by Professor Nilmini Wickramasinghe, the focus of our research stream is to leverage the ongoing remarkable advances in digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, analytics and machine learning, 5G and the Internet of Things, mobile and platform, 3D printing and Virtual/Augmented and mixed reality, to design, develop and deploy suitable digital health solutions that empower superior patient-centred decision making.
These solutions are responsibly designed so that they are predicated on ensuring high levels of security and privacy, tailored support, are patient-centred and easy to use. Through the incorporation of digital technologies, we have an opportunity to provide the best care to everyone, everywhere, every time.
To ensure this, our solutions are grounded in the latest scientific developments and co-designed with all relevant healthcare stakeholders including patients, service providers, payers, regulators and industry innovators.
Projects
Lead researcher - Professor Nilmini Wickramasinghe
About - This project is investigating the application of digital twins into the domain of healthcare decision making. We are collaborating both in Australia and US to support clinical decision making in diverse contexts such as oncology, heart failure and dementia. Through our approach we are able to provide more personalised and precise clinical decision support as well as insight and support for the assessment of disease progression.
Partners
- Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
- Olivia Newton John Cancer Research Institute
- Dr Jonathan Schaffer, Cleveland Clinic, USA
- Professor Elliot Sloane, Villanova University, USA
- Arias IS, USA
- Oncoshot
- Northern Health
- Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
- Brown University
- GlobalMed Physicians
- ONJCRI
- Stephen Johnson
- Sanka Amadoru
Lead researcher - Professor Nilmini Wickramasinghe
About - This project extends the research project for which Professor Wickramasinghe was funded as an awardee of the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2020. It investigates the best approaches to implement private blockchain technology and federated learning to ensure more secure and transparent healthcare data transactions.
Partners
- Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Lead researcher - Professor Nilmini Wickramasinghe
About - This project extends the research project for which Professor Wickramasinghe received a Schoeller Senior Fellowship. It investigates opportunities to support people with diabetes (type I, type II or gestational) using pervasive mobile solutions.
Partners
- Steve Goldberg, iNET Intl Inc., Canada
- Assistant Professor Rima Gibbings, University North Georgia, USA
- Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Lead researcher - Professor Nilmini Wickramasinghe
About - This project looks at the potential of the Temi Robot with nurse avatar and multi-lingual chatbot capability to support clinicians and patients to ameliorate repetitive tasks, enhance information and education and support better adherence and discharge planning.
Partners
- Brown University
- GlobalMed Physicians
- Stephen Johnson
- Sanka Amadoru
Lead researcher - Professor Nilmini Wickramasinghe
About - This project extends basic telehealth to include assessment to support regional and remote patients in particular so they can continue with physiotherapy and rehab at home post knee or hip arthroplasty.
Partners
- Associate Professor Oren Tirosh, RMIT University
Our researchers
Professor Nilmini Wickramasinghe – Optus Chair & Professor of Digital Health
Dr Thu Ha Dang – Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Nalika Ulapane – Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Sasan Adibi – Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Nadeem Shuakat – Manager Ethics and Governance
Adjunct Professor John Zelcer – Strategic Advisor
Contact us
We are always happy to hear from you and work with you to discuss and explore mutually interesting and potentially impactful areas of research.
Contact Dr Nadeem Shuakat via email.