Research Projects
ADaPt-EH
The Actionable Data project aims to develop and prove a reusable framework for delivering the use of live-streaming clinical analytics and reporting for quality improvement and hospital accreditation in an Australian digital hospital with stand-alone EMR and a statewide incident monitoring system, which is an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Incident Management System (IMS) agnostic.
The project will demonstrate the impact of the framework on clinical practice; hospital audit (QPI) teams; and external auditing agencies. It will document a roadmap for Australian hospitals to adopt live digital dashboard generation supported by new models of proactive and continuous quality improvement and accreditation.
Research Grants
- Co-Investigator on a AU$1.5M project funded by the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), Victoria Department of Health (DoH), and Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS). The project titled “ADAPt 2: Actionable Dashboards Accreditation Project 2” takes place during the period of 2025-2026. This project is a collaboration among Monash University’s Faculty of IT, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Eastern Health, and Peninsula Health.
- Co-Investigator on a AU$30,000 project funded by Monash University Faculty of IT for the ECA Seed Grant 2025. The project is titled “HandovAR: A Framework of AI-facilitated Handover System via Augmented Reality for ICU Nurses”. This initiative involves interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers from Monash University’s Embodied Visualisation research group, the School of Nursing and Midwifery, and the AIM for Health lab.
- Part of the Accreditation Dashboard at Eastern Health (ADaPt EH) project, a AU$2.1M project funded by the Digital Health CRC from 2021 to 2025 to develop near real-time clinical analytics and reporting dashboards for quality improvement and hospital accreditation at Eastern Health. The project partners include the Australian Council of Healthcare Standards (ACHS) and the Victorian Department of Health. This project is expanded significantly in October 2023, and efforts are underway for commercialisation.
- Primary Investigator on a AU$49,133 project funded by the Whyte Fund in 2023 for a project titled “Exploring the Medical Recordkeeping Practices in Indonesia for Data-Driven Public Health Action”. The project partners include the University of Indonesia and some public and private Indonesian Hospitals in Java and Sulawesi.
- Co-Investigator on a AU$299,823 grant with Department of Health and Aged Care (Australia) in 2023 for a project titled “A digital health intervention to provide individualised feedback on pathology requesting practices of Emergency Department clinicians”. The project involves Emergency Departments from Monash Health, Peninsula Health, Eastern Health, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, and Alfred Health.
- Recipient of the Faculty of IT’s Women’s Research Accelerator Program (WRAP) in 2023, a 2-year pilot program to support women in advancing research career aspirations with $5,000 in start-up funds.
Research Services
- Track Co-Chair of the International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing.
- Peer reviewer of research publications in International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference (PacificVIS), IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS), and Health Informatics Journal.
- Supervised 1 PhD student and 8 minor thesis students at Monash University.
- Supervised exchange students from Gachon University Korea who were supported by the Korea Ministry of ICT and Future Planning grant in 2017 to Gachon University National Program of Excellence in Software.