There is an opportunity to expand Western Health’s digital health capacity from a service and workforce perspective with a scholarship in offered by the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health in 2022, focussed on
- analysis of routinely-collected healthcare data to understand unwarranted variation in care
- designing digital health tools for virtual care
The UoM Centre for Digital Transformation Health at UniMelb, of which WH is a partner, is offering scholarships to support clinicians to participate in the 2022 Learning Health System Academy ( https://bit.ly/LHSA_info ). The Academy is a professional development program for clinicians to learn and implement data-driven and digital health-enabled clinical practice improvement through course-work and project based learning. It would require 2 days a week from February to December 2022.
The proposed project needs to be benefit WH (but could involve other institutions) and focus on one of the following areas:
- analysing routinely-collected healthcare data to understand unwarranted variation in care. Settings for projects within this scope could include (but are not limited to) outpatients, specialist clinics or shared care
- designing digital health tools for virtual care. Settings for projects within this scope could include (but are not limited to) Hospital in the Home or home monitoring.
Your participation and the project need evidence of Western Health support e.g. from your manager, including a plan for how the project could be integrated into Western Health activities. The CDTH will provide infrastructure and data analytics expertise.
Please click here for the Application form.
Please send any application to Dr Oliver Daly (CMIO) via email oliver.daly@wh.org.au initially, and he will review it before submitting and can facilitate executive sponsorship.