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Australia’s healthcare system is struggling due to increasing demand, increasing burden of diseases and not enough resources.

The world has changed significantly and rapidly, altering how, when and where we work and learn.

A senior member of GCI’s Digital Health Research Network has helped deliver a new web-based platform to make pandemic data and information more easily accessible to the public. UQ Professorial Research Fellow Prof. Colleen Lau has led a team from the UQ and the Australian National University to produce Crisper, a web-based program that consolidates data from a variety of government sites.

The University of Queensland is working to develop a digital Learning Health System that will ensure data gathered during routine clinical care can be re-purposed for quality improvement and research. A tsunami of digital information generated at the frontline of clinical care has encouraged clinicians and researchers to explore new ways of processing health data in the face of an ageing population, and the growing burden of chronic disease.

Two University of Queensland researchers were members of the Digital Metro North Hospital team that won the Premier’s Award for Excellence in the ‘Be a responsive government’ category.UQ Centre for Health Services Research experts Associate Professor Clair Sullivan and Dr Magid Fahim played key roles in Digital Metro North’s response to COVID-19 by taking responsibility for the health of more than one million Queenslanders, including at the airport and seaport.