Health data plays a pivotal role in delivering effective healthcare, advancing medical research, and improving health outcomes. Monash Partners Senior Fellow, Ms Alison Johnson, profiles the Monash Partners Data Platform. The vision of the Monash Partners Data-Driven Healthcare and Informatics Platform is to ‘improve health outcomes across our community, through data-driven innovation and care’. It aims to explore and develop …

Monash Partners’ data platform sits across our partnership supporting systems, strategies and processes to optimise the use of health data for healthcare improvement and research. Activities include data sharing agreements and principles, agreed and now being implemented across the Partners as well as work on optimising consistent data related ethics and governance and our ongoing event series including an upcoming data privacy and access …

It has been estimated that ~60% of care is in line with evidence-based guidelines, ~30% is wasteful or of low value to the patient, and up to 10% may be harmful. Unnecessary or ineffective care costs money and time, that would be better spent on effective treatment. Factors that contribute to unnecessary care include duplication of tests due to poorly …

People from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds are significantly under-represented in Australian clinical trials. Language and translation difficulties, cultural beliefs about health, medicine and research, and a lack of existing relationships between health and medical researchers and CALD communities, are just some of the barriers. The Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA) has released a set of recommendations aimed at advancing clinical trial …

In response to a lack of clinical academic pathways across all health disciplines in Australia, Monash Partners has launched a program to support promising clinical academics embedded in healthcare, and train the next generation of clinician researchers. The Monash Partners Strategic Translation and Research (MP STAR) Clinician Fellow Program responds to an identified need to strengthen and build the multi-disciplinary …

Monash Partners has been reaccredited by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) as a Research Translation Centre for a further five years. Reaccreditation recognises our leadership and collaboration in research and translation, applying evidence-based approaches, delivering on our strategic plan, and learning and maturing together for over 10 years. Moving forward, Monash Partners remains committed to enabling and building …

Seven research projects were recently awarded funding thanks to our partnership with Equity Trustees. This collaboration recognises high impact research projects that directly benefit children and those suffering with cancer, heart disease and depression. The following highlights one of the funded projects: The syncope-stopper study: Comparison of upfront pacing with standard care for high-risk patients with unexplained syncope. We spoke to …

With Australia entering a new phase of the COVID pandemic, one where mandatory isolation has come to an end, many of us have reflected on what COVID has taught us. The importance of health literacy is one such lesson. Throughout the pandemic, whole populations were asked to understand and rapidly digest complex health concepts relating to infection, vaccination uptake and …

Two open-access online resources launched today that will fill significant gaps in wound-related education and research in Australia. The Wounds Research Directory is a database of Australian wound researchers and an overview of their work that aims to strengthen wound research networks and promote easier sharing of evidence from research. The Wounds Education and Training Directory is a comprehensive source …

As 2022 comes to an end, it is timely to reflect on the year that has been. A year that began with government restrictions and is ending with the ability to rejoice in the festive season and reconnect with one another. We thank all those that worked tirelessly this year to afford us such freedoms. This year has seen Monash …