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People > Professor Enrico Coiera Professor Enrico Coiera
Director
MB BS (Syd), PhD (UNSW), FACMI
School/Unit
Centre for Health Informatics
Broad Research Areas
- Health and Biomedical Informatics
- Health Services Research
Specific Research Keywords
- Communication in Health Care Systems
- Consumer Informatics
- Evidence Based Health Care
- Patient safety
- Bioinformatics
Research Interests
I have a broad range of interests in the application of information and communication technologies (e-Health) to solving health service delivery problems. I emphasise the importance of developing robust theoretical work to support the applied nature of much of this discipline. Working with my colleagues I am currently exploring topics in patient safety informatics, consumer e-health, translational bioinformatics, evidence-based decision support, text summarisation methods to support scientific discovery and I have a long standing interest in clinical communication. I have a growing interest in understanding the systemic nature of the problems faced in healthcare, and their formal analysis. Perhaps this is the beginning of a new 'implementation' science..
Society Memberships & Professional Activities
- Fellow Australian College of Health Informatics
- Fellow American College of Medical Informatics
- Member, American Medical Informatics Association
- Journal of American Medical Informatics Association Associate Editor
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Associate Editor
- Journal of Medical Internet Research - Editorial Board
- BMJ Clinical Evidence - International Scientific Advisory Committee
Funding Sources
- NHMRC Project Grant
- ARC Discovery Grant
- NSW Department of Health Capacity Building Infrastructure Grant
- HCF Health and Medical Research Foundation
Thesis topics for current UNSW Medicine postgraduate research students
- Nation scale health information systems
- Clinical and IT cultures
- Intrahospital handover safety
- Legislative frameworks for IT safety
- Error cascades in patient safety events
Key works/Publications
- Coiera, E, 2011, 'Why system inertia makes health reform so difficult', British Medical Journal (BMJ), vol. 342, pp. d3693, http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d3693.extract
- Coiera, E, 2009, 'Building a National Health IT System from the Middle Out', Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, vol. 16, pp. 271 - 273
- Coiera, E & Braithwaite, J, 2009, 'Market-based control mechanisms for patient safety', Quality and Safety in Health Care, vol. 18, pp. 99 - 103
- 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).
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Professor Enrico Coiera
Director
Centre for Health Informatics
Room 103
Level 1 AGSM
University of New South Wales
SYDNEY NSW 2052
T +61(2) 9385 3586
F +61(2) 9385 8692
E e.coiera@unsw.edu.au
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