For Those Who Wondered We Have A Winner For “Brilliant Women In Digital Health”!

Spotted this a few days ago!17 Oct 2022 10:22 am AEDTResearchers receive Brilliant Women in Digital Health AwardsAwards celebrate contributions to digital health and technology throughout AustraliaTwo University of Wollongong (UOW) researchers, Tara Alexander and Ping Yu, have been recognised in the2022 Brilliant Women in Digital Health Awards presented by Telstra Health to celebrate women finding ground-breaking digital solutions in the sector.Tara Alexander is the Data Manager and Statistician for theAustralasian Rehabilitation Outcomes Centre(AROC), headquartered at UOW. She was instrumental in establishing AROC and has created a purpose-built IT system, which is used across Australia and New Zealand to track and improve patient outcomes.Mrs Alexander said, “I am proud of my vision to design and build an online system that enables real-time data collection and upload and provides live analysis plus the ability to download comprehensive national benchmarking reports. These data can be used to further medical rehabilitation research and, when used in d ata linkages, can lead to policy change and advocacy for rehabilitation services.Professor Ping Yuis the Director of UOW ’sCentre for Digital Transformationin the School of Computing and Information Technology. She also leads the Group of Digital Health and Digital Aged Care in Smart Infrastructure Facility at UOW.One of Professor Yu ’s contributions to the digital transformation of health and aged care was a research re...
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