Opportunity: Australia’s national interoperability initiative, including the Australian Core Data for Interoperability (AUCDI) and the Sparked‑AU Program depend on a capable workforce with clinical information modelling (CIM) skills—a specialised discipline that transforms clinical knowledge into structured, consensus-driven data models.
Opportunity: Achieving Responsible AI (RAI) goes beyond addressing algorithmic and data-related issues, it also involves tackling system-level challenges that span multiple layers of governance and the entire AI engineering lifecycle. In response, the Australian Government has introduced a range of ethical principles, frameworks, and guardrails designed to promote, though rarely mandate, good practice across the AI sector.
Opportunity: Cancer often comes recurs or spreads to other parts of the body (metastasises), which is a major reason treatments don’t work as well and survival rates are lower. In Australia (2024), lung cancer represents 8.9% of new cancer diagnoses and 16.9% of cancer deaths.
Recent Projects
Impact case studies
Working together with our project partners, we document the initial opportunities for collaborative research, research activities undertaken, the knowledge and outcomes generated, partner and industry perspectives of value, key insights arising from the collaboration, and potential translation journeys going forward.
These case studies aim to show how collaborative research leads to real impact for the health and care ecosystem in Australia in many different ways, by harnessing the power of data and digital health technologies.
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Advancing chronic kidney disease care: leveraging data to improve patient outcomes
This collaborative project in Western Australia created a comprehensive chronic kidney disease (CKD) dataset using privacy-preserving techniques to enable new insights into CKD incidence, progression, and economic impact; inform clinical care improvements and policy making; and foster further innovation.
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Enhancing video telehealth experiences for patients and doctors for more streamlined and accessible care
DHCRC brought together Monash University and partners to enhance video telehealth services in Victoria through the development and piloting of the Patient Consultation Summary (PCS) application on Healthdirect Australia's VideoCall platform to improve patient and clinician experiences of telehealth.
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Supporting responsible use of AI in Australian healthcare
DHCRC initiated a project localising the 2022 OECD AI Classification Framework to the Australian healthcare context, developing a web-based tool to classify AI systems for better governance, transparency and trust.
