Brief summary of the main activities from The Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre (HaBIC@UoM)

1. HLA Workshop
1 April 2015
The Health and Biomedical
Informatics Centre (HaBIC)
A/Prof. Karin Verspoor
Deputy Director
Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre (HABIC)

3. Activities
• Education
• Translational Research Informatics
• E-Health and Participatory Health
Research
• Informatics for Precision Medicine
Research
• Engagement
FMDHS+MSE+IBES

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Education

5. HaBIC and UoM education strategy in HBI

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Translational Research
Informatics

8. Background: HABiC R2 Rationale and Aims
The aim of the R2 Unit is to help span the divide between IT and health & biomedical
domain-specific knowledge and expertise to support health and biomedical
research.
R2 can do this through the provision of:
• expertise in navigating the complexities of negotiating access to health data.
(medical ethics, confidentiality, policy)
• tools to facilitate health data collection (GRHANITE, REDCap...)
• tools to support researchers manage their health research data (i2b2...)
• expertise in working with complex health datasets and in the interpretation of data
from such sources.

9. Researcher
Hospital data
GP, labs, pharmacies data
Researcher-entered
data

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E-Health and Participatory
Health Research

11. HaBIC’s ehealth and participatory health research
Ehealth research:
Questions of changing professional practice & quality of care
Examples of our projects:
• How can we ensure that next gen professionals are discerning users of
data, information, knowledge and technologies? National
interprofessional review of learning, teaching and assessment of
ehealth in universities.
• How can we plan for providers’ high-capacity broadband requirements
for future health services delivery? Scenarios based on in-depth review
of network requirements and performance priorities with health CIOs
• Could we learn more, sooner about good practice by evaluating the
plethora of pilots more systematically? A framework that includes
patients / clinicians / health service manages / IT managers; sets of
metrics derived from Australian criteria
• What is the disruptive potential of internet based telehealth? A study of
consumer and provider perspectives on direct-to-consumer online
medical consultation services
Some of our partners:
Commonwealth Office of Learning and Teaching, University of Queensland,
University of Western Sydney, Curtin University, Australian Centre for Health
Innovation, Melbourne Health, Royal Children’s Hospital, Wangaratta Health,
Royal District Nursing Service, Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative, IT
industry partners
Participatory health research:
Questions of self-help and health outcomes
Examples of our projects:
• MAR on your smartphone or tablet – can it engage people in the street in
greater interaction with biomedical and healthcare research in the Parkville
Precinct? Interface prototype, information architecture, field trials.
• Internet protocol TV with web 2.0 personalisation, in your home – can it
educate people with low health literacy and low Internet literacy about how
to manage their chronic disease? Technical integration; process modelling;
consumer and provider acceptance testing.
• Social media platforms and tools – what is the evidence that they work,
and what is the mechanism by which they work, for people who are using
them to manage their chronic disease? Review of platforms; international
user survey; RCT pilot study.
• Self-quantification devices and apps – can they support personal health
self-management effectively at scale? S-Q laboratory & user guide; PHR
and EHR integration testing; international user survey; clinical trial by very
obese pregnant women
Some of our partners:
Major biomedical research institutes; Melbourne Health; Sunshine Hospital;
Diabetes Australia-Vic; Melbourne Quantified Self Group; Universita della
Svizzera Italiana

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Informatics for Precision
Medicine Research

13. Informatics for Precision Medicine
Informatics approaches to facilitate precision medicine
• Integration and analysis of data coming from different
sources (molecular, genomic and clinical sources) and
technologies (microarrays, RNA-Seq, DNA-Seq) with a
special focus in transcriptomic analyses.

14. Informatics for Precision Medicine
Exposome Informatics
– Analysis of the new informational
requirements for these new data
sources
– Development of new systems and
methods for managing these data
and support biomedical research

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Engagement

16. Engagement

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