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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 3rd 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 → …Fingerprint Fingerprint is based on mining the text of the person's scientific documents to create an index of weighted terms, which defines the key subjects of each individual researcher.
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Projects 2014 2022
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
Personalised anticoagulant therapy for patients with acute coronary syndrome
Wendling, T., Gallego Luxan, B., Coiera, E. & Runciman, W.
1/01/17 → …
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., 22 Apr 2019, In : Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 9 p., ocz046.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access
Primary Health Care
Referral and Consultation
Medical History Taking
Natural Language Processing
Primary Care Physicians
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
HPV vaccine coverage in Australia and associations with HPV vaccine information exposure among Australian Twitter users
Dyda, A., Shah, Z., Surian, D., Martin, P., Coiera, E., Dey, A., Leask, J. & Dunn, A. G., 12 Apr 2019, In : Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics. 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access
Papillomavirus Vaccines
Vaccines
Blogging
Education
Cluster Analysis
Reduced verification of medication alerts increases prescribing errors
Lyell, D., Magrabi, F. & Coiera, E., 30 Jan 2019, In : Applied clinical informatics. 10, 1, p. 66-76 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Clinical Decision Support Systems
Prescriptions
Electronic Prescribing
Safety
Aviation
The timing and frequency of trial inclusion in systematic reviews of type 2 diabetes drugs was associated with trial characteristics
Dunn, A. G., Orenstein, L., Coiera, E., Mandl, K. D. & Bourgeois, F. T., 1 May 2019, In : Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 109, p. 62-69 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Confidence Intervals
Journal Impact Factor
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Industry
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
Best Paper Award, British Human-Computer Interaction Conference
Ahmet Kocaballi (Recipient), Liliana Laranjo da Silva (Recipient) & Enrico Coiera (Recipient), 6 Jul 2018
Prize
Medical Informatics
Informatics
Anniversaries and Special Events
Medicine
Delivery of Health Care
Activities 1998 2017
Journal of Artificial Intelligence (Journal)
Enrico Coiera (Reviewer)2017 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work
International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (External organisation)
Enrico Coiera (Member)2017 → …
Activity: Membership › Membership of network
HealthDirect (Publisher)
Enrico Coiera (Reviewer)2013 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (Journal)
Enrico Coiera (Reviewer)2006 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work
Australasian College of Health Informatics (External organisation)
Enrico Coiera (Member)2002 → …
Activity: Membership › Membership of network
Press / Media
Wild Health Summit says the future of healthcare is... fax machines?
23/11/18
1 media contribution
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Artificial Intelligence that puts patients first
24/09/18
1 media contribution
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28/06/18
1 media contribution
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