Our Collaborators
We have a large number of collaborators – some key organisations and others who collaborate within specific projects or clinical domains:
BioGrid Australia
BioGrid is a not for profit organisation providing research teams access to genetic and clinical research data across multiple organisations in an ethically approved and secure manner. We have been working closely with BioGrid to validate their internal record linkage tools and to validate and incorporate hashed record linkage technologies into BioGrid for cross-jurisdictional record linkage. We hope in the future to facilitate better research through utilising the best of BioGrid for large clinical datasets and GRHANITE™ for primary care. www.biogrid.org.au
CONDUIT – Collaborative Network and Data using IT
Through the CONDUIT programme, we are collaborating with a wide variety of health services and organisations particularly in North East Victoria. The CONDUIT programme collaborates with multidisciplinary organisations at different levels, with particular emphases on innovative and inter-professional health services and systems; effective engagement and knowledge transfer with our communities and patients; longitudinal cohort studies to evaluate the effectiveness of eHealth interventions in areas that are of local, regional and national significance e.g. diabetes, mental health, aged and palliative care, and integrated and inter-professional care.
The CONDUIT™ program aims to establish standards and protocols to link existing databases in hospitals, general practices, allied health practices and research and evaluation projects to directly impact on clinical care, health promotion and facilitation of research projects.
Current Collaborators include
- Relevant University of Melbourne departments and schools, including Department of General Practice, School of Rural Health, Goulburn Valley Initiative (GVI) (and linkages to Dookie and ASHE)
- Goulburn Valley Health (GVH)
- Goulburn Valley Division of General Practice (GVGP)
- Professor Frank Sullivan, University of Dundee
Diabetes
In designing and implementing the National System for IT in Scotland (SCI-DC) Dr Boyle developed a specific interest in diabetes and large-scale implementations for population-based care. Many key design aspects of GRHANITE™ are derived from this previous experience and there are numerous uses in the field of diabetes that GRHANITE™ could play an active role. Although a project has not yet been funded in this area, the GRHANITE™ team is working closely with a large number of key organisations and individuals towards furthering primary and secondary prevention of diabetes and its associated morbidities.
Current collaborators include
- BioGrid Australia
- Deakin University
- DHS Victoria
- Diabetes Australia Victoria
- Diabetes South Australia
- Flinders University
- GPSA (General Practice South Australia)
- GPV (General Practice Victoria)
- Melbourne Health
- SA Health
- The Royal Women’s Hospital, Victoria
- University of Melbourne Department of General Practice
- Victoria University Australian Community Centre for Diabetes
- Western Hospital, Melbourne
Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health (Burnet Institute)
In a close collaboration with the Burnet Institute, GRHANITE™ is the technology behind the Chlamydia Surveillance data capture activities of the Commonwealth-funded Australian Collaboration for Chlamydia Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance (ACCESS) project. In particular, GRHANITE™ is being used in the General Practice, Laboratory, Family Planning and Indigenous networks within this project. http://www.burnet.edu.au/home/cph/current/access
Sexual Health
With its roots in providing data for chlamydia surveillance for the Burnet Institute ACCESS project, we are working with a number of organisations to improve sexual health across Australia.
Current collaborators include
- DHS Victoria – Communicable Disease Prevention & Control Unit
- Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health
- Melbourne Sexual Health
- University of Melbourne Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society
- University of Melbourne School of Rural Health CERSH
- UNSW National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research
- Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council (QAIHC)