e-Health Research Unit

Mission:
To perform world-leading multidisciplinary collaborative research in partnership with government, industry and the community to create demonstrable health improvement through innovations in ICT-enabled systems of health care.

The e-Health Research Unit of the Monash Institute of Health Services Research  conducts research and development in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in health care.  It aims to deliver innovations that significantly improve  the efficiency, effectiveness, quality, safety and access to health care in Australia and internationally. 

The e-Health Research Unit brings together leading researchers in health and medicine, ICT, engineering and communications, economics and law.  It involves the Faculties of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences; Information Technology; Engineering; Business and Economics; and Law.

The Unit carries out multidisciplinary research in health application services and enabling technologies for sharing and managing the complete quality cycle of integrated care across the full range of health service providers and consumers.   These ICT-enabled services include evidence-based decision support, disease management,  wellness monitoring, consumer and provider education, quality and audit, health data linkage, epidemiological research, and health services management. 

The research program involves innovations in adaptive e-business technologies that can take account of the autonomy and heterogeneity of the health service providers, the incompleteness of information, and the rapid rate of health care innovation.  The programs also include research into the knowledge content necessary to build these application services (e.g., therapeutic guidelines, integrated care plans, and so on), developing innovations in health care, knowledge representation, and information analysis.  They also include research in new economic and legal models for the health system, providing a system-level evaluation framework, as well as innovative business models and health policies