Countering bias in the health system Heart disease is the leading cause of preventable mortality in Aotearoa, New Zealand. It is a disease that disproportionately affects certain groups such as Māori – who have higher rate of ischaemic heart disease ... Read More
Vensa has embarked on this project to enable the analysis of laboratory result patterns that aims for faster and safer dissemination of results to patients. It addresses the problem of increasing diagnostic laboratory tests being ordered which therefore requires the ... Read More
Deciding whether to have major surgery can be difficult for patients and clinicians alike. The benefits and risks need to be weighed up through a shared decision-making process. This is particularly true for high-risk populations. In Aotearoa New Zealand, Māori ... Read More
Automating for accuracy Patients’ regular medicines are often inaccurately prescribed when they transfer from hospital to home; a major source of medication errors and iatrogenic harm. Medicines reconciliation (MedRec) is an evidence-based process where clinicians manually compare a patient’s regular ... Read More
Currently, treatment decisions for elective surgery are currently based on clinicians’ assessments of the benefits the surgery will bring to ... Read More
As Electronic Health Records (EHRs) become more ubiquitous, healthcare providers are beginning to appreciate the benefits of using this data ... Read More
Summer of Research project by Nick James, supervised by Dr. Patrick Gladding (University of Auckland). Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is a ... Read More
Summer of Research project by Sivaram Manoharan, supervised by Bernhard Pfahringer, University of Auckland. Melanoma is an extremely dangerous type ... Read More
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