Central Queensland University              Health Informatics               2004-2006 Plan

Vision: To improve health through health informatics education and research

Strategic Goals and Values

Strategy & Key Indicators

Education & Research

Stakeholders

Strategic Goals / Mission

·      Provide multidisciplinary educational and research opportunities to build the nation’s health informatics capability and uptake.

·      Adopt innovative teaching and learning technologies to provide up to date ‘real-world’ health informatics content based on industry needs.

·      Foster multidisciplinary applied research where outcomes are used within the health industry.

·      Provide expert advice and contribute to national and international developments as key players and leaders.

Values

-       Life long learning and flexibility

-       Strong people networks

-       Healthy lifestyles

-       Caring and supportive colleagues

-       Peer recognition of expertise

-       Multidisciplinary teamwork

-       Openness, honesty and commitment

-       Research rigour and relevance

-       Effective people management and efficient administrative processes

-       Facilitating achievement of learning outcomes

Strategy

1.    Find national and international research funding and tender opportunities; prepare grant applications

2.    Maintain relevant curricula and educational resources; deliver quality courses to meet market needs

3.    Engage local health care providers for collaborative research projects

4.    Increase Health Informatics teaching and research staff numbers

5.    Obtain involvement from Informatics and Communication faculty staff

6.    Foster alliances with the Faculty of Arts, Health & Sciences (FAHS)

7.    Involve adjunct professors (located in different states) to foster our research

8.    Work in close collaboration  with stakeholders

9.    Provide leadership to establish and support the IMIA Virtual Global HI University.

Key Performance Indicators

·      Number of grant/RFT applications submitted and number of successes

·      Number/type of projects managed to successful completion

·      Number of collaborative projects

·      Number/type of publications, reports and presentations

·      Number of advisory positions, invitations & recognition of expertise

·      Growth trend in number of student enrolments and graduates

·      Number of research students & completions

Educational Program

·      Bachelor of Nursing Informatics

·      Bachelor of Nursing Informatics (Hons)

·      Grad. Cert. Health Informatics

·      Grad. Dip. Health Informatics

·      Master of Health Informatics

·      Masters degree by research

·      Doctor of Philosophy

·      Ongoing Education – HL7 via Direct Edge

·      HL7 Australia – 2 seminars PA

Professional Activities

-       Manage IMIA NI mailing lists

-       Manage IMIA WG1 mailing list

-       Manage National Informatics Nursing mailing list

-       Develop International Virtual University web site

-       Coordinate development of International Education Issues textbook

-       Manage Health and Nursing Resource Website

Community & Partnerships

·      Establish virtual Health Informatics University with all  (29) IMIA Academic Institutional Members

·      Provide education to facilitate the adoption of HL7 standards

·      AR-DRG Nursing Service weights

·      Regional Health Reserarch Alliance

·      Trendcare Systems P/L

Research Fields

·      Health IT Standards and Terminology for e-communication

·      Universal Health Informatics Education

·      Nursing Informatics

·      Impact of IT on Health

·      Health service management, performance management and health outcomes

·      Electronic health records, knowledge discovery and management.

·      Decision support

Current and Planned Research projects and Consulting

-       Development of standards and guidelines for e-communication between healthcare providers and consumers

-       Development of user interface requirements for health data presentation to minimise interpretation errors

-       NQ HealthConnect Evaluation

-       Working with Trendcare Systems on nursing terminology/ documentation, critical pathway and archetype development (domain knowledge representation using constraint models)

-       System security

-       Development and computer-supported use of clinical data-sets in shared care environments

-       Clinical Risk Management Model

CQU

-    Students, Infocom

-    FAHS, FB&L, DTLS

-    Research Office, Direct Edge

-    CQU Foundation

Community

-   COIN, Regional partners

-   Media groups

Industry Partners

-    Qld Health

-    Mater Group of Hospitals

-    MSIA, HL7 Australia

-    OpenEHR Foundation

-    Trendcare Systems

Government & National C’tees

-    Standards Australia IT/14

-    HealthConnect

-    Fed. Dept. Health and Ageing

-    Health Data Standards Committee

-    ICT Standards Committee

-    General Practice Education and Training (GPET)

-    Capacity Building Health Workforce

-    State and Territory Governments

Other Universities, Institutes

-    IMIA’s 29 Academic members  incl. University of Sydney and Monash University, La Trobe University, Wollongong University, University of South Australia, University of New South Wales, University of Tasmania

-    E-Health Research Centre

Professional Organisations

-    IMIA - Health and Medical Informatics Education WG

-    HISA Nursing Informatics SIG

-    HISA, ACHI, ACS HIC, AMIA

-    National Nursing Organisations (NNOs), ACHSE, SHAPE