Areas of research

Health informatics/Health information management

• The electronic health record
• Information systems in hospitals and general practice settings
• Point of care clinical information systems
• Managing the integration of information technology into health care organizations
• Consumer health informatics
• Decision support systems which facilitate evidence based medical practice
• Genetic service support for clinicians
• Web-based information support for general practitioners
• Medicolegal implications of electronic communication in health

Clinical classification

• Morbidity and mortality classification systems
• ICD 10 AM
• Clinical coding quality and productivity
• Health terminologies
• Health classification theory (development, analysis, maintenance, relationship to the electronic health record)
• The performance of casemix classification systems
• Casemix policy development
• Clinical data quality and impact on funding

Population health

• Chronic disease epidemiology (diabetes and asthma)
• Developing and measuring health status indicators
• Outcomes research
• Neurotoxicology
• Child health promotion and prevention of disease
• Occupational health and environmental research
• Health status of disadvantaged populations
• International and multicultural health

Education

• Education of health information managers and health informaticians
• Teaching and practice in evidence based health care
• Inquiry-based teaching and learning
• Distributed learning environments
• Professional doctorates