Advancing healthcare transformation through data science, AI, and digital health innovation
The Digital Health Innovation and Clinical Informatics (DHICI) Lab is a virtual interdisciplinary environment established to strengthen research capability, collaboration, and innovation across Adelaide University and partner organisations.
Its primary objectives are to:
- Advance and promote digital health and clinical informatics
- Represent interdisciplinary expertise to internal and external stakeholders, including national funding agencies
- Coordinate cross-disciplinary collaborations and grant applications
- Provide expert consultation on digital health and clinical informatics initiatives
- Recommend, establish and curate digital health supporting infrastructure, such as advanced analytics tools
- Help to create an interdisciplinary ecosystem for research students beyond their primary affiliations.
Membership
Founding members consist of the Industrial AI Research Centre (IAI) and the Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre (RBRC). Membership is available to individuals or organisational partners engaged in active or intended collaboration with IAI or RBRC in digital health or clinical informatics.
Membership duration is typically aligned with ongoing collaboration, strategic planning activities, or the lifespan of joint projects.
Governance
The DHICI Lab is a virtual laboratory operating under the governance structures of Adelaide University. Oversight is provided by a Governing Board. Permanent representatives nominated by the founding centres include:
- Professor Marion Eckert - Director RBRC
- Greg Sharplin - Senior Research Fellow, RBRC
- Associate Professor Georg Grossmann - Digital Health Lead, IAI
- Dr. Jan Stanek - Digital Health and Clinical Informatics Lead, IAI.
Collaborating entities can nominate additional representatives for the duration of their active engagement.
Partnerships and external engagement
The DHICI Lab aims to develop and maintain an active network of collaborators to ensure readiness for large scale multidisciplinary funding opportunities.
Core tasks include:
- Identifying key individuals and groups relevant to funding opportunities, AI Health Hub initiatives, Adelaide University research concentrations and external industry partners in AI, IT, health, and pharmaceuticals
- Mapping stakeholders crucial for strategic and institutional support, including the Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health (CEIH), SA Health and the SA Government, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (SA Branch), and Health Translation SA.
