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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), Computer Science, 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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Oracle for Research Fellows
Magrabi, F., Wang, Y., Lyell, D. & Coiera, E.
1/06/23 → 31/05/24
Project: Research
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W81XWH-22-1-0731: Multimodal Precision Liquid Biopsy to Predict Risk of Melanoma Recurrence
Rizos, H., Diefenbach, R., Coiera, E., Berkovsky, S., Long, G. V., Scolyer, R., Gray, E. S. & Millward, M.
1/09/22 → 31/08/25
Project: Research
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HEaring Impairment Data Infrastructure (HEIDI) Study: Data Analytics for Better Hearing Health Care
Gopinath, B., Coiera, E., McMahon, C., Tran, Y., Berkovsky, S., Gu, T., Monaghan, J., Mitchell, R. & Tang, D.
25/03/22 → 25/03/25
Project: Research
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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
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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
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A protocol for intelligible interaction between agents that learn and explain
Srinivasan, A., Bain, M., Baskar, A. & Coiera, E., 4 Jan 2023, (Submitted) 29 p. (arXiv e-prints).Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Clinical named entity recognition and relation extraction using natural language processing of medical free text: a systematic review
Fraile Navarro, D., Ijaz, K., Rezazadegan, D., Rahimi-Ardabili, H., Dras, M., Coiera, E. & Berkovsky, S., Sept 2023, In: International Journal of Medical Informatics. 177, p. 1-21 21 p., 105122.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Human-Centred AI in Healthcare: challenges appearing in the wild
Osman Andersen, T., Nunes, F., Wilcox, L., Coiera, E. & Rogers, Y., 1 Jun 2023, In: ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 30, 2, p. 1-11 11 p., 25.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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More than algorithms: an analysis of safety events involving ML-enabled medical devices reported to the FDA
Lyell, D., Wang, Y., Coiera, E. & Magrabi, F., 20 Jun 2023, In: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 30, 7, p. 1227-1236 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Moving beyond algorithmic accuracy to improving user interaction with clinical AI
Berkovsky, S. & Coiera, E., 22 Mar 2023, In: PLOS Digital Health. 2, 3, p. 1-3 3 p., e0000222.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Prizes
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2011 Best student paper award American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium
Coiera, Enrico (Recipient) & Ong, M. S. (Recipient), 2011
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Best HSR paper prize from Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation
Runciman, W. B. (Recipient), Hunt, T. D. (Recipient), Hannaford, N. A. (Recipient), Hibbert, P. D. (Recipient), Westbrook, Johanna (Recipient), Coiera, Enrico (Recipient), Day, R. O. (Recipient), Hindmarsh, D. M. (Recipient), McGlynn, E. A. (Recipient) & Braithwaite, Jeffrey (Recipient), 2013
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Best Paper Award, British Human-Computer Interaction Conference
Kocaballi, Baki (Recipient), Laranjo da Silva, L. (Recipient) & Coiera, Enrico (Recipient), 6 Jul 2018
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Excellence in research Five Future-Shaping Research Priorities: Healthy People
Braithwaite, Jeffrey (Team leader), Coiera, Enrico (Recipient), Westbrook, Johanna (Recipient), Zurynski, Yvonne (Recipient) & Georgiou, Andrew (Recipient), 2021
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Unlocking the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare
Enrico Coiera (Speaker)
16 Feb 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Journal of Artificial Intelligence (Journal)
Enrico Coiera (Reviewer)
2017 → …Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Editorial work
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International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (External organisation)
Enrico Coiera (Member)
2017 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of network
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HealthDirect (Publisher)
Enrico Coiera (Reviewer)
2013 → …Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Editorial work
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (Journal)
Enrico Coiera (Reviewer)
2006 → …Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Editorial work
Press/Media
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Charting Australia’s healthcare journey into the age of artificial intelligence
27/07/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Researchers analyzed 4,063 papers on tools to help guide care. Only 12 were replications
26/07/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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Future directions for Australia’s Technology workforce
16/06/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
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Australia’s Digital Health Boom and the Seven Players Driving It
26/03/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment