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The Centre for Health Innovation (CHI) has five principal areas of activity: 
 

1. Testing and trialling of health care products and technologies

The Centre provides a simulated clinical environment and consultancy for clinicians and private companies to partner in the development, testing, trialling, and demonstration of new health care technologies.  The use of simulation for testing and trialling health technologies minimises the impact on business continuity and patient safety, thus reducing risk to patients, health service providers and industry. The unique immersive experience that the Centre provides is often utilised when health services are investigating new models of care or evaluating new technology.

2. Advanced systems and business tools

The Centre facilitates research into improvements in team-based systems and processes that can reduce human errors and ensure effective communication. Communication failures and lack of information access represent the most common contributing factor to adverse events (sometimes lethal) in health care.  Developments are currently focussed on access, communications, collaboration tools, and how information systems support clinical decision making. These include:

• Rapid (sub 10 second) personal desktop access to clinical information from any enterprise terminal. This removes the need for generic logins, reducing significant barriers to e-prescribing and e-ordering.

• Collaboration across organisation boundaries for chronic disease management,  sharing x-rays and clinical information for individual consultation or for virtual meetings of multidisciplinary teams.

•  Evaluating the impact of information presentation on clinical decision making in the intensive care unit.

3. Patient safety research

Professor Peter Cameron is the Director of Research at the Centre and is also Director of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Patient Safety (CREPS). The collocation of these Centres provides a unique opportunity for dedicated expertise and testing facilities in human factors and cognitive engineering, and also recognises the high quality research skills that exist across Monash’s Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, The Alfred Hospital and their collaborating institutions around Australia. Research is currently being undertaken in:

• Medication safety

• Blood management

• Clinical handover from ambulance to Emergency Departments

• Trauma resuscitation

4. Advanced education and technical skills training

This Centre provides high level technical and vocational training for health care professionals in a safe simulated environment. Simulation laboratories are available for both undergraduate and postgraduate medical students, doctors, nurses and paramedics. Access is available on a short-term fee-for-service basis or through longer-term arrangements.

The Centre’s simulation facility comprises a mock ward and operating theatre, procedures room, advanced mannequins, a useability testing lab, a skills development lab with advanced teaching and training capabilities.

v        Updates on health sector developments and capital works projects;

v       Access to case studies in health care innovations;

v        Discounts on health-industry forums; and

v        Assistance to access funding opportunities for health projects.

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Industry Users

The Centre offers collaborating partners: 

v        A simulated health environment for the development and demonstration of products, interoperability, and health applications;

v        Facilitated access to clinical expertise to enhance product development and commercialisation;

v        Independent trialling at numerous health care sites with suitable expertise to support individual project requirements;

v        Greater likelihood of market penetration, given development and evaluation is undertaken in conjunction with medical key opinion leaders;

v        A mechanism through which to seed new market demand and improve a product’s time-to-market;

v        Leverage for gaining research funding from State and Federal Governments;

v        Access to the industry and research partners working through the Centre;

v        Access to advanced teaching and training resources;

v        Assistance with evaluating a product’s business case and identification of suitable metrics to assist its market promotion;

v        Access to project opportunities at The Alfred, related research institutes and other health care facilities in Australia and internationally; and

v        Access to a suite of specialised resources provided around a cost-recovery model.

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