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Professor Enrico Coiera
Director
MB BS (Syd), PhD (UNSW), FACMI
School/Unit
Centre for Health Informatics
Broad Research Areas
- Medical Informatics
- Health Services Research
Specific Research Keywords
- Communication in Health Care Systems
- Evidence-based Decision Support
- Evidence Based Health Care
- Health Information Systems
- Medical Informatics
Research Interests
Developing models of human-computer interaction to support the rational, appropriate and sustainable development of technological interventions in health care. Developing of advanced knowledge management and decision support tools to assist with clinical decision making, including advanced search engine technologies. Understanding the impact of poor communication systems on health care delivery, with a focus on their role in error and inefficiency, as well as the development of technical and non-technical solutions to improve health organisation communicatio.
Society Memberships & Professional Activities
- Fellow Australian College of Health Informatics
- Fellow American College of Medical Informatics
- Member, Australian Health Information Council (AHIC)
- Member, American Medical Informatics Association
- Member, British Medical Association
- Healthinsite, Editorial Board
- Journal of American Medical Informatics Association Editorial Board
- International Journal of Medical Informatics Editorial Board
- Methods of Information in Medicine, Editorial Board
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Associate Editor
- Knowledge Engineering Review journal, Cambridge University Press - Editorial Board
- Journal of Medical Internet Research - Editorial Board
- Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh - Informatics Faculty Advisory Board
- NSW State Health Department - Member, Clinical Projects Planning Committee
- The informatics Review (official publication of the US Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems) - Scientific Advisory Board
Funding Sources
- NHMRC Project Grant
- ARC Discovery Grant
- NSW Department of Health Capacity Building Infrastructure Grant
Thesis topics for current UNSW Medicine postgraduate research students
- Adaptive agents for internet health information
- Evidence based policy and practice in population health
- Translating bacterial molecular epidemiology into information to improve infectious disease risk assessment and control
Key works/Publications
- E. Coiera, Four rules for the reinvention of healthcare, BMJ, 2004;328:1197-1199.
- E. Coiera, Guide to Health Informatics, Arnold, London, (2003), 467pp.
- E. Coiera, Information economics and the Internet. Journal American Medical Informatics Association. 7, 215-221, 2000.
- E. Coiera, When Conversation is better than Computation. Journal American Medical Informatics Association. 7,277-286, 2000.
- E. Coiera, V. Tombs, Communication behaviours in a hospital setting - an observational study, British Medical Journal, 316,673-677, (1998).