Hospitals and Healthcare

Do you want to learn to use health data to inform clinical practice and/or design and validate digital health-enabled models of care?

The Applied Learning Health Systems short course is a national multi award-winning program.

This is a 13-week online short course on Learning Health Systems. Registrations for the Feb 2024 are now open. Register below. Live Zoom sessions will run from 6:30-9:00 PM on a weeknight. Full schedule available here. Places are limited.

While some cyber criminals have previously avoided schools and health-care organisations, it seems these are now fair game.

Australia's medicines regulator has clarified a mistake on its website that wrongly showed a six-year-old girl had experienced "heavy menstrual bleeding" and other illnesses after receiving the Pfizer vaccine, symptoms which were supposed to be attributed to a 41-year-old woman.

Racial disparities — and the limitations of data — are visible if you look closely at the red and black screens.

Concerns about privacy are valid, but a University of Melbourne expert says making data safely available for research saves lives, and Australia must do better

Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before - using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of 'The Joy of Stats' he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.

Data can be powerful in health and social care. It can be used to develop new services, influence strategies, inform budget decisions and optimise processes and policy.

On this course you’ll learn how to make the most of data. Find out what data should be gathered, best practices around data governance, what tools and techniques will help you manage and analyse data, and how to work collaboratively with data scientists and digital teams.

Using real world case studies you’ll gain practical experience of that you can use in your own work to create sustainable health and social care services.

Offered by The University of Sydney. Digital health is rapidly being realised as the future of healthcare. While this is placing emphasis on ... Enroll for free.

From ‘depression’ to ‘HIV,’ we found popular health apps sharing potential health concerns and user identifiers with dozens of ad companies.

How can healthcare systems keep up with the changing face of healthcare to create the health system of the future? At the European Health Forum Gastein, we talked with Bogi Eliasen – Futurist & Special Advisor on Future of Health at Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, Head of Denmark Unit UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.

Learn how the General Data Protection Regulation helps to protect health data, with this online course from the University of Groningen.