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Digital health research will soon gain a significant boost with the announcement of six new PhD scholarships. The result of a collaboration between The University of Queensland (UQ) and Queensland Health, the scholarships are designed for doctoral candidates eager to help transform the health system with digital health.

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

University of Queensland researchers are collaborating with an extensive range of health professionals to re-design and improve strategies to prevent childhood obesity.

Melanoma patients using their smart phone to submit images of lesions to their specialists appears to be a safe and convenient form of follow-up after treatment.

University of Queensland researchers are pioneering the use of artificial intelligence to enable healthcare providers to better monitor and improve hospital care and the patient experience. Supported by the UQ Global Change Institute (GCI), the research community is working to secure better patient outcomes through improved access to real-time patient outcome and experience data.

A specialised medical research facility that will transform ground-breaking research into new medical equipment and technology is set to be established in Queensland, at the Herston Health Precinct.

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

Attendees at GCI’s next-generation workspaces workshop collectively examined the question of where the modern workplace might be heading in a Covid-19 world.

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.

With an estimated 32 per cent of people now regularly working-from-home for some part of their week, employers are wondering what this 21st century development will ultimately mean for long-term productivity. Many of us have re-jigged our home environments to accommodate work duties, but how well are we managing the transition? Under the dramatically different circumstances of a societal lockdown, many of us experienced what was essentially an overnight revolution in workplace behaviour.

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.