Dr Farah Magrabi
Senior Research Fellow
Research Areas
- Safety of Electronic Decision Support Systems
- Clinical Information Retrieval
- Informatics Evaluation
Profile
Dr Farah Magrabi is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Informatics (CHI). She has qualifications in Health Informatics (PhD UNSW 2003) and Electrical Engineering (BE Auck 1997).
Farah leads CHI’s research program on
engineering safe clinical software systems. The aim of this program is to design safe systems based on accident models that specifically describe failures associated with the use of record keeping, clinical decision support and messaging functions in routine care. She is also investigating new automation errors associated with the use of electronic prescribing in hospital settings.
Farah has extensive practical experience in the evaluation of clinical information retrieval technology. She played a key role in designing and managing, internationally the first nation-wide study to directly measure individual clinicians’ patterns of using information retrieval in routine general practice settings.
For her doctoral thesis Farah investigated design methodologies for interventions to support patients’ self-monitoring at home to manage chronic conditions using home telecare technology to feed back information to their doctor. This research developed a framework for designing home telecare interventions and also resulted in a novel system architecture for web-based acquisition, storage, and retrieval of biomedical signals.
Funding Sources
- ARC Discovery "Engineering safe decision support systems for healthcare" 2007-09
- ARC Linkage "Agent-based methods for communication system design in complex organisations" 2007-09
Selected Publications
- Magrabi F, Coiera EW. Quality of prescribing decision support in primary care: still a work in progress. Medical Journal of Australia 2009;190(5):227-228.
- Coiera E, Lau AYS, Sintchenko V, Tsafnat G, Magrabi F. The changing nature of clinical decision support systems: a focus on consumers, genomics, public health and decision safety. Yearb Med Inform 2009.
- Magrabi F, Westbrook JI, Kidd MR, Day RO, Coiera E. Long-term patterns of online evidence retrieval use in general practice: a 12-month study. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2008;10(1):e6.
- Sintchenko V, Magrabi F, Tipper S. Are we measuring the right end-points? Variables that affect the impact of computerised decision support on patient outcomes: a systematic review. Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine 2007;32(3):225-40.
- Magrabi F, Westbrook JI, Coiera EW. What factors are associated with the integration of evidence retrieval technology into routine general practice settings? International Journal of Medical Informatics 2007;76(10):701-9.
- Magrabi F, McDonnell G, Westbrook JI, Coiera E. Using an accident model to design safe electronic medication management systems. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2007;129(Pt 2):948-52.
- Coiera E, Magrabi F, Sintchenko V, Zrimec T, McDonnell G, Chung G, et al. The Centre for Health Informatics at the University of New South Wales--a clinical informatics research centre. Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2007:141-8.
- Coiera E, Magrabi F, Westbrook JI, Kidd MR, Day RO. Protocol for the Quick Clinical study: a randomised controlled trial to assess the impact of an online evidence retrieval system on decision-making in general practice. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2006;6:33.
- Magrabi F, Lovell NH, Henry RL, Celler BG. Designing home telecare: a case study in monitoring cystic fibrosis. Telemedicine Journal and e-Health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association 2005;11(6):707-19.
- Magrabi F, Coiera EW, Westbrook JI, Gosling AS, Vickland V. General practitioners' use of online evidence during consultations. International Journal of Medical Informatics 2005;74(1):1-12.
- Magrabi F, Westbrook JI, Coiera EW, Gosling AS. Clinicians' assessments of the usefulness of online evidence to answer clinical questions. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2004;107(Pt 1):297-300.
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