Digital Collaborative Group

Established in 2020 by Health Translation Queensland (HTQ), the Digital Collaborative Group brings together experts from across our partnership to champion a learning health system in Queensland and sufficient architecture to support such a system. Their objective is to provide a framework for greater harmonisation and streamlining of digital health systems across our partners in the broader health environment.

Key achievements

• Guided the creation of the Health Research Digital Ecosystem – a capability statement that maps and describes Queensland’s health research digital landscape, enabling stakeholders to understand how they can navigate the digital ecosystem to access and share research data and materials.
  
• Led the development of the Health Studies Australian National Data Asset (HeSANDA) Queensland node (launched in October 2023) to give researchers access to clinical trial data.
  
• Representing Queensland as a member of the Australian Health Research Alliance (AHRA) national network: Data driven health care improvement.

Current activity

HTQ’s Digital Collaborative Group informs on HTQ’s digital health work program. This includes education and training, best practice initiatives, and creating opportunities for workforce development.

The group are working on the following initiatives:

• develop the Queensland node's infrastructure and increase the number of clinical trials in the node
• extend the Queensland node to include cohort studies
• organise an annual digital ecosystem networking event for clinicians and researchers to encourage collaboration.

Group members

• David Hansen, Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO (Chair)
• Andy Moore, Children's Health Queensland
• Greg Ransom, Mater
• Magid Fahim, Metro North Health
• Raj Davio, Translational Research Institute
• Dom Gorse, The University of Queensland
• Jessica Suna, Griffith University
• Clair Sullivan, The University of Queensland
• Kirsten Vallmuur, Jamieson Trauma Institute
• John Pearson, QIMR Berghofer
• Stephen McPhail, AusHSI, Queensland University of Technology
• Janine Cox, North Queensland Primary Health Network
• Stephen Canaris, Metro South Health
• Adam Brand, Gold Coast Health
• Rae Donovan, Queensland Health
• Claire McCafferty, Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO
• Raymond Tong, e-Health Queensland, Queensland Health
• Samantha Prime, Clinical Excellence Queensland, Queensland Health
• Angela Morris, West Moreton Health
• Salifu Yusif, Goondir Health Service
• Sara Gottliebsen, Health Translation Queensland
• Sophie Munn, Health Translation Queensland (Secretariat)

Further information

If you would like to join the Digital Advisory Group or would like more information, please contact:

Health Translation Queensland
Email: research@healthtranslationqld.org.au