Application title: Models of care to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of acute care grant opportunity
Summary: Solutions to emergency department congestion must be highly integrated and multifaceted, given the interconnectedness and dependencies that exist across our health system. Fusing digital and analytical innovation, health service re-engineering and health policy evaluation and reform, this program will deliver 3 exemplar projects across the acute care continuum to establish new scalable and sustainable models of care, ensuring consumers get the right care, in the right setting, at the right time. A fourth project underpins the exemplars and focuses on the infrastructure, technology and data architecture required to enable these kinds of projects within SA Health.
Grant type/source: MRFF
Amount awarded: $ 2,919,835.56
Year awarded: April 2022
Duration the grant is awarded for: 5 years
CEIH commitment: The CEIH provides project management, executive sponsorship, and data analytics/scientist resources to two of the four projects.
Chief Investigator: Derek Chew
Collaborators:
- Professor Derek Chew
- Professor Paul Worley,
- Professor Jane Andrews
- Professor Robert Padbury
- Professor Andrew Bersten
- Ms Kristina Lambrakis
- Doctor John Maddison
- Professor Danny Liew
- Doctor Gerry O’Callaghan
- Associate Professor Daniel Haustead
- Professor Maria Crotty
- Doctor Santosh Verghese
- Professor Steven Wesselingh
- Professor Maria Inacio
- Professor Jonathan Karnon
Application title: In SCOPE (Surveillance for colorectal cancer prevention): Digital solutions to optimise colonoscopy surveillance
Summary: The ‘In SCOPE’ program will be the first organised digital surveillance program initiative of national relevance and applicability, using eHealth to provide optimal and equitable clinical care for people at risk of colorectal cancer. It will improve health care delivery through increased efficiency and provide a cost-effective way to manage the large number of colonoscopies, through improved compliance with national guidelines for how often procedures should be completed. It will ensure all patients receive equitable, evidenced-based care thereby achieving a reduction in the incidence of CRC. The development of research infrastructure through an Australian data registry of colonoscopy outcomes along with patient demographics and survey measures will provide a valuable data resource to facilitate research into risk factors for cancer and determine optimal prevention activity.
Grant type/source: MRFF
Amount awarded: $ 2,929,493
Year awarded: April 2023
Duration the grant is awarded for: 5 years
CEIH commitment: The CEIH will assist with selection of Patient Reported Outcome Measures and link with CEIH’s PRM program to support clinical implementation.
Chief Investigator: A/Professor Erin Symonds
Collaborators:
- A/Professor Erin Symonds
- Dr William Wilson
- Professor Lyle Palmer
- Professor Richard Woodman
- A/Professor Billingsley Kaambwa
- Professor Billie Bonevski
- Grace O’Donohue (CEIH)
- Dr Phil Worley (CEIH SCN Lead)
- A/Professor Mark Schoeman
- Dr Charles Cock
- Kathrn Cornthwaite
- Professor Rajvinder Singh
- Dr Ilmars Lidums
- Dr Eleonora Feletto
- Dr Quentin Ralph