News Archive
14 Nov 2005 - Professor Enrico Coiera was a guest on ABC Radio National
On Monday 14 November at 8.30am on ABC Radio,
Professor Enrico Coiera talks with Norman Swan about Healthcare Knowledge. The discussion was about ensuring that people use health knowledge and how this may save lives. A full transcript can be found on the
abc website.
25 Oct 2005 - Fellowship American College of Medical Informatics Association
"It's my great pleasure to announce that Associate Professor Johanna Westbrook, Deputy Director at the UNSW Centre for Health Informatics, has been elected to the American College of Medical Informatics as an International Fellow.
The Fellowship is the highest recognition possible in our discipline, and no more than two are offered in any one year, based upon peer election from current College Fellows. This is thus a wonderful honour as it marks the highest peer recognition possible from an international community, reflecting upon Jo's outstanding research work."
Prof Enrico Coiera
24 Oct 2005 - National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant Awarded
A/Professor Johanna Westbrook and Margaret Williamson from the Centre for Health Informatics have been awarded a $583,000 NHMRC project award to investigate the safety and effectiveness of hospital e-prescribing systems. Using a time series design, the study will examine the effectiveness of electronic prescribing systems in reducing medication error rates and will also investigate whether these systems introduce new types of medication errors. The study will be conducted in conjunction with Professor Bill Runciman from the Royal Adelaide Hospital, and colleagues from the University of NSW, Professor Ric Day, Professor William Dunsmuir and A/Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite.
23 Aug 2005 - JAMIA paper identified as a Fast Breaking Paper
ISI Essential Science Indicators Web product lists highly cited papers in 22 broad fields of science. These papers comprise the top 1% of papers in each field and each year from 1995 through 2005. The lists are updated every two months to reflect their current citation counts and also include new papers that enter the top percentile. ESI Special Topics identifies a subset of these papers having the largest percentage increase in citations in their respective fields from onebimonthly update to the next. ISI calls these "fast breaking papers"because they represent very recent scientific contributions that arejust beginning to attract the attention of the scientific community.For full details and citation histories of these papers, see the ISIEssential Science Indicators listings of highly cited papers.
The August 2005 Fast Breaking Papers had the highest percentage increase in citations in ISI Essential Science Indicators from the first bimonthly period of 2005 to the second bimonthly period of 2005.
For more information see the
Essential Science website.