Enrico Coiera

Personal profile

Biography

Trained in medicine and with a computer science PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Professor Coiera has a research background in both industry and academia and a strong international research reputation for his work on decision support and communication processes in biomedicine.

Coiera spent 10 years at the prestigious Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories in Bristol UK where he led numerous health technology projects. He has overseen the development and trial of multiple eHealth interventions, including the Healthy.me consumer system as well as clinical decision support systems. Healthy.me technologies underpin a new US health startup called Healthbanc. His textbook Guide to Health Informatics is in its 3^rd edition, is widely used internationally, and is translated into several languages.

Coiera has won a number of prestigious awards including the 2015 International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) François Grémy Award for Excellence and the 2011 UNSW Inventor of the year (Information and Communication Technology) for a literature-based computational discovery system.

He was elected Foundation Fellow and first President of the Australian College of Health Informatics, is a foundation member of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, and an International Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.

Coiera has also held key appointments on boards, councils and editorial positions on international journals including Associate Editor of the journal ‘Artificial Intelligence in Medicine’.

Research interests

Using digital health to solve health service delivery problems, patient safety informatics, consumer e-health, translational bioinformatics, evidence-based decision support, text summarisation methods to support scientific discovery, and clinical communication.

Broad Research Areas
Health and Biomedical Informatics, Artificial Intelligence, Health Services Research, Evidence Based Medicine, Systems Science

Specific Research Keywords
Health systems science, Communication in Health Care Systems, Evidence-based Decision Support, Bioinformatics, E-health, Patient Safety, Health System Sustainability

Education/Academic qualification

Dr of Philosophy (PhD), The University of New South Wales

Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, University of Sydney

External positions

Associate Editor, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

2017 → …

Foundation Member, International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics

2017 → …

Editorial Committee, Healthdirect Australia

2013 → …

Journal Editorial Board, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

2006 → …

Foundation Fellow, Australasian College of Health Informatics

2002 → …

International Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics

1999 → …

Member, American Medical Informatics Association

1999 → …

Editorial Board, Journal of Medical Internet Research

1998 → …

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Projects 2014 2022

2 Finished
12 Active

Computerised decision support to improve efficiency and outcomes of massive blood transfusion (Sanderson)

Sanderson, B., Coiera, E., Wood, E., Estcourt, L., Field, J. & Kocaballi, A.

1/01/20 → 31/12/21

Project: Other

Centre of Research Excellence in Digital Health (CREDiH)

Coiera, E., Glasziou, P., Hansen, D., Magrabi, F., Sintchenko, V., Verspoor, K., Gallego Luxan, B., Lau, A., Dunn, A., Longhurst, C., Tsafnat, G., Cutler, H., Makeham, M., Shaw, T., Shah, N., Runciman, W. & Liaw, S. T.

1/01/18 → 31/12/22

Project: Research

NHMRC Partnership Centre on Health System Sustainability

Braithwaite, J., Westbrook, J., Coiera, E., Glasziou, P., Scott, A., Buchbinder, R., Karnon, J., Anderson, T., Teede, H., Wells, L., Gray, L., Ward, R. & Yeend, I.

1/07/17 → 30/06/22

Project: Research

Redesigning patient experiences in health service navigation using digital technology

Lau, A., Laranjo, L., Tong, H. L., Liu, J., Coiera, E., Willcock, S., Vagholkar, S., Carey, M., Biggs, J., Vaile, I., Marles, E. & Besley, S.

31/03/17 → …

Project: Research

Monitoring the gap between evidence and vaccination behaviour by sampling the location-specific consumption of health information from news and social media

Dunn, A., Leask, J., Mandl, K., Coiera, E., Dey, A., Johnson, M. & MQRES 3 (International), M. 3.

16/01/17 → …

Project: Research

Research Outputs 1990 2019

A network model of activities in primary care consultations

Kocaballi, A., Coiera, E., Tong, H. L., White, S. J., Quiroz, J., Rezazadegan, F., Willcock, S. & Laranjo da Silva, L., 1 Oct 2019, In : Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 26, 10, p. 1074-1082 9 p., ocz046.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Open Access

File

Primary Health Care

Referral and Consultation

Medical History Taking

Natural Language Processing

Primary Care Physicians

Assessing technology success and failure using information value chain theory

Coiera, E., 2019, Applied interdisciplinary theory in health informatics: a knowledge base for practitioners. Scott, P., de Keizer, N. & Georgiou, A. (eds.). Amsterdam: IOS Press, p. 35-48 14 p. (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics; vol. 263).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review

Open Access

File

Technology

Stretching

Information technology

Information systems

Information Systems

Automatically appraising the credibility of vaccine-related web pages shared on social media: a Twitter surveillance study

Shah, Z., Surian, D., Dyda, A., Coiera, E., Mandl, K. D. & Dunn, A. G., 4 Nov 2019, In : Journal of Medical Internet Research. 21, 11, p. 1-14 14 p., e14007.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Open Access

File

Social Media

Vaccines

Checklist

Communication

Guidelines

Context-aware systems for chronic disease patients: scoping review

Yin, K., Laranjo, L., Tong, H. L., Lau, A. Y. S., Kocaballi, A. B., Martin, P., Vagholkar, S. & Coiera, E., 17 Jun 2019, In : Journal of Medical Internet Research. 21, 6, p. 1-8 8 p., e10896.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › Research › peer-review

Open Access

File

Chronic Disease

Health

Randomized Controlled Trials

Mobile Applications

Databases

Efficacy of a mobile social networking intervention in promoting physical activity: quasi-experimental study

Tong, H. L., Coiera, E., Tong, W., Wang, Y., Quiroz, J. C., Martin, P. & Laranjo da Silva, L., 28 Mar 2019, In : JMIR mHealth and uHealth. 7, 3, p. 1-15 15 p., e12181.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Open Access

File

Mobile Applications

Social Networking

Outcome Assessment (Health Care)

Social Support

Technology

Prizes

2011 Best student paper award American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium

Enrico Coiera (Recipient) & Mei Sing Ong (Recipient), 2011

Prize

Students

Best HSR paper prize from Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation

W. B. Runciman (Recipient), Tamara D. Hunt (Recipient), N. A. Hannaford (Recipient), Peter D. Hibbert (Recipient), Johanna Westbrook (Recipient), Enrico Coiera (Recipient), R.O. Day (Recipient), D. M. Hindmarsh (Recipient), Elizabeth A. McGlynn (Recipient) & Jeffrey Braithwaite (Recipient), 2013

Prize

Health Services

Delivery of Health Care