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September 2007
- Peter and Jasmine Croll’s paper was selected for citation and inclusion
in the 2007 Yearbook of the International Medical Informatics Association
(IMIA). The yearbook represents
“the most original, excellent state-of-the-art research in the area
of health and biomedical informatics of the past year”. This paper was
the only paper from Australia to be selected
under the best papers category where 35 papers were selected for inclusion
as the best internationally with half of these top-tier papers originating
from North America to including, for example, the prestigious Stanford and
Harvard Universities. Jasmine Croll's original work, which contributed 50%
of this publication, was specifically identified in their citation to include
the 'adoption of information technologies' and the 'usability' aspects of
Heath Information Systems. The following is the citation in the Yearbook summary
that endorses this paper which originally appeared in the International Journal
for Medical Informatics.
Croll PR, Croll J
Information Security Institute, Queensland
University of Technology (QUT), Australia
Faculty of Health, Queensland University
of Technology (QUT), Australia
Investigating risk exposure in e-health systems
Int J Med Inform 2007;76(5-6):460-5
“The hindrances to the adoption of information technologies
include traditionally cultural aspects and resistance to changes and innovation,
but also the costs and threats for privacy. On the technical aspect, interoperability
and maturity are also usual causes discussed. The original approach of
Peter and Jasmine Croll, in their paper entitled “Investigating
risk exposure in e-health systems”, is therefore of particular interest,
as they propose an integrated model aiming at providing a framework to
help build trustworthy solutions. The method proposed focuses on the identification
of pertinent issues that determine the risk exposure of a given system.
An important result of their work relates to the interdependency of factors
influencing the safety of the system. The QUiPS (Quality, Usability, Privacy
and Safety) model provides a framework that helps identification of the
causes that could lead to a safety incident and demonstrates their interdependencies.
A valuable point of their work is the practical outcomes that have been
validated on two large Australian projects.”
- Prof Peter Croll awarded ARC Linkage grant commencing in 2008
- Australian Research Council Linkage (LP0882189) “Minimising the inappropriate
and unnecessary hospital admission of frail older people”, hosted by
Dr M Conrick; Griffiths with collaborators A/Prof J Soar; A/Prof TE Yuginovich;
Prof PR Croll; Mr FH Whittaker, 3 years from 2008 ($356,284).
- Dr Tony Sahama and Prof Peter Croll invited to India’s premier
Telemedicine conference - Two papers are being presented by QUT’s
researchers Dr Tony Sahama and Prof Peter Croll at the 3rd National Conference
of the Telemedicine Society of India, to be held in conjunction with the 12th
ISfTeH International Conference, on 2nd & 3rd November 2007, in Chennai.
Chennai.
- Dr Richard Au and Peter Croll paper accepted at Hawaiin Premier
System Science Conference - HICSS
is the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences and now in its 41st
year. Au and Croll’s paper “Consumer-Centric and Privacy-preserving
Identity Management for Distributed e-Health Systems” will be presented
in the ‘Information Technology in Healthcare’ Track.
- Two papers accepted at the Australasian Conference on Information
Systems 2007 - The Australasian Conference on Information Systems
2007 will be held at USQ, Toowoomba, Soar and Croll to present “Assistive
technologies for the frail elderly, chronic illness sufferers and people with
disabilities - a case study of the development of a Smart Home”, Vicky
Liu, William Caelli, Lauren May and Peter Croll’s paper “A Sustainable
Approach to Security and Privacy in Health Information Systems”.
May 2007
- Prof Croll presented invited talk at Naples University
Prof Stefano Russo (Direttore Laboratorio CINI ITEM-Informatica e Telematica
Multimediali Complesso Univ. di Monte S.Angelo, Edificio Centri Comuni - 80126
Napoli)
- Prof Caelli awarded prestigious international fellowship – see media
release
- Smart Home initiative launched by Health Minister, Hon Stephen Robertson
MP on 23 April 2007 at Blue Care Residential Homes, Kenmore, Brisbane –
see smart home
media release
- Prof Croll invited to chair special IMIA WG1, WG4 and JHIFT joint panel
session at MedInfo2007 “Global Standardization of Certification Requirements
and Fostering Management Specialists for EHR Systems” – see joint
panel session proposal
March 2007
- QUT to play a key role in the Queensland Smart Home Initiative funded by State Development
- ehPASS'07 approved as a workshop in Medinfo
- Prof Caelli makes further submissions to the Medical Access card inquiry
- Prof Croll invited on the Developing Technologies committee of the Australian Law Reform Commission
Febuary 2007
- Prof Croll invited to visit Korea to collaborate with u-health program
- Prof Croll and Prof Caelli hold round table with Privacy Law Reform Commissioner
23rd November 2006 – Prof Croll presented a poster
at the 6th Annual Health and Medical Research Conference of Queensland
17th November 2006 – HISA approves support for National
Privacy Forum on Privacy and Security of Health Information. The HISA national
board approved the formation of a new special interest forum to focus on Privacy
and Security. Professor Croll will establish this group of key national players
and commence with a survey to the HISA members focusing on the proposed changes
in the current Privacy Legislation (see www.alrc.gov.au).
23rd October – Prof Croll presented at the Workshop
on Managing Patient Registries at the Australian Clinical Research Conference
16th Annual Scientific Meeting by the Queensland Clinical Trials Network and
Australasian Health & Research Data Managers Association.
September 2006 – New projects added on Health Access Smart Cards
29th August 2006 – "Stop
privacy breaches, don't snoop on the snoops"
24th August 2006 – "QUT
develops software to stop staff snooping"
August 2006 - Prof Croll co-opted on to the ACS advisory group for
the national Medical Access Card
Professor Croll has been voted on as a National Board Member of the
HISA, the Health Informatics Society of Australian (www.hisa.org.au).
HISA was established in 1992 and by year 2000 HISA became a national governing
health informatics body. They are organizing Medinfo2007 when it comes to Brisbane
for the first time.
17th July 2006 - QUT staff met with Prof Steve Duckett (Executive
Director, Reform and Development Division, Queensland Health) and his team who
visited QUT on Monday 17th July @ 3 p.m. A team lead by Prof Simon Kaplan, Executive
Dean Faculty of IT, made two presentation to Prof Steve Duckett. Prof Croll
initially presented “QUT’s
Capabilities on the application of ICT to Health” and Prof Ross Young,
Executive Director of IHBI, presented “Enabling
Better Health Through ICT Research” (part
2). The event was attended by senior representatives from across the university
including, Business, Health, BEE, Science, Education and FIT faculties.
Purpose of Prof Croll's trip to EU
Events
26th March 2007 – Queensland
Health's first ever eHealth Symposium, Brisbane, Australia
Keynote speakers include Dr John Halamka (CIO Harvard Medical School and Caregroup Health Systems), Richard Granger (Director of IT for the NHS in the UK), Dave Garets (President and CEO of HIMSS Analytics), Richard Alvarez (President and CEO Canada Health Infoway), Dr Ian Reinecke (CEO NEHTA).
Forthcoming conferences and events in
e-Health (courtesy of eHRC)
October/ November 2006 – e-Research External Workshop
24th - 26th October 2006 – National
e-Health Privacy and Security Symposium ehPASS ’06, Queensland University
of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
ehPASS’06 regarded as a great success
The ehPASS’06 event recently held in Brisbane was regarded as very successful
in meeting its objects. At this first National symposium event we attracted
over 70 delegates from all states in Australia plus international visitors.
The event ran over two days with several Key note presentations, invited talks
from industry and healthcare practitioners and presentation of refereed research
papers. The consensus was that ehPASS should be run in 2007 and an application
to run this concurrently with Medinfo will be submitted. As a testimonial to
the event from Cathy Clutton, Executive Director of the NHMRC, who was kind
enough to volunteer the following endorsement:
Dear Peter
Just a note to say how informative and valuable I found the symposium this
week.
I was pleased to hear you talking about a 2007 event - as somebody who has
been responsible for two national conferences I know this is a difficult task.
I'm not sure how you publicised the symposium this year but I was surprised
that nobody from the Commonwealth government Department of Health and Ageing
with responsibility for electronic-health (etc) attended.
Perhaps you could target them especially next year, a speaker even?
I noticed that two speakers spoke about research issues and human research
ethics committees. At the NHMRC we have a keen interest in privacy and research
- this may also be a spot for a speaker next year.
Anyway, just wanted to say thank you and how much I enjoyed the sessions.
I got a lot out of the two days.
Cathy
(National Health and Medical Research Council, Canberra)
Photos of the event can be located here.
I will keep you informed of future developments. Thank you to everyone who
attended and making this a worthwhile experience.
Peter Croll, Chair ehPASS’06
12th September 2006 –Invitation
to Connected Health Breakfast, Brisbane
11th August 2006 – QUT Workshop on Bioinformatics (Preliminary
Announcement) - IHBI, Kelvin Grove (10:00am-3:00pm)
12th July 2006 – July breakfast: Australia's
eHealth Landscape - QUT, OJ Wordsworth Room (7:00am-9:30am)
29th May 2006 – Prof Croll and Dr Hasmukh Morarji will be presenting
the paper “Perceived Risk” at the Research Network for a Secure
Australia (RNSA) Workshop on the Social Implications of Information Security
Measures, Wollongong. – see media
release
19th May 2006 – Prof Croll will give a Keynote presentation at the Annual
State Conference of the Australian College of Heath Services Executive (ACHSE)
- QLD, Gold Coast.
16th March 2006 – Inaugural e-Research Workshop (Internal)
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