The Australian eHealth Research Centre http aehrc com

The Australian e-Health Research Centre http: //aehrc. com/ CSIRO ICT Centre, Brisbane

The Australian e-Health Research Centre • Joint Venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government • First round of funding in 2003 (5 years) • Re-funded in 2007 (5 years) • Leading national research facility in ICT for healthcare innovations. • Aims to improve the quality and safety of healthcare for individuals and communities through an ICT research program focused on applied outcomes and active adoption by the health system • Multi-disciplinary team of over 40, including world-renowned researchers, software engineers and Ph. D students • Research focus: • Biomedical Imaging • Health Data and Smart Methods CSIRO ICT Centre http: //aehrc. com/

Tools for a Health Information Environment • HDI • Software tool to link patient databases • Snapper • Mapping tool for integrating linked data semantically • Cancer Stage Interpretation System • Computation staging of cancer from pathology and radiology reports • Patient timeline • Display and analysis of summary of integrated patient data Tools engineered in a service based architecture for inclusion where appropriate in clinical workflow CSIRO ICT Centre http: //aehrc. com/

Use of SNOMED CT within HIE • Ability to extend SNOMED CT to cover local data: • New concepts can be added to cover data terms which are not in SNOMED CT • Post-co-ordinated expression can be added to cover new combinations • EHRC Tools for creating local extensions: • SNOMED mapping tool – for mapping data to SNOMED CT and creating concepts and expressions • snorocket – for classifying the extended ontology • Ontology server – a URI based interface for accessing the extended ontology CSIRO ICT Centre http: //aehrc. com/

Contact information The Australian e-Health Research Centre Level 7 – UQ CCR Building 71/918 Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Gary Morgan • Chief Executive Officer • gary. morgan@csiro. au Herston Queensland Australia 4029 Dr David Hansen • Team Leader (Health Data) • Project Leader (HIE, HIS) • david. hansen@csiro. au Simon Mc. Bride • OHT point of contact • Team Leader (s/w engineering) • simon. mcbride@csiro. au CSIRO ICT Centre http: //aehrc. com/