Dr Alejandro Metke
Team Leader
Health Data Interoperability
The health data interoperability team is at the forefront of research and development in the use of standard clinical terminologies and information models for exchanging information between clinical systems.
Our Science
Our main scientific goals include improving clinical data quality (accurately capturing meaning) and effectively dealing with patient information spread across the Australian healthcare system.
Key challenges include:
Impact on the Health System
AEHRC technologies are now being used to collect data using key healthcare standards, such as FHIR, and standard terminologies such as SNOMED CT. The aim of these technologies is to increase the value that can be gained from electronic health data, and improve patient outcomes as well as health system performance and productivity.
Our Solutions
The Australian health system is currently transitioning to a fully electronic system. The Australian health system is currently grappling with the transition to a fully electronic system which will enable health data to be accessed as...
November 19, 20170Shrimp is HTML5, SVG, and Javascript based, and runs in most modern web browsers. Shrimp is a browser for hierarchical terminologies like SNOMED CT and AMT in a HL7 FHIR Terminology Server like Ontoserver....
November 18, 20173Snorocket is an implementation of the Dresden algorithm that is tuned for classifying the SNOMED CT clinical terminology. Snorocket Snorocket is an implementation of the Dresden algorithm that is tuned for classifying the SNOMED CT...
November 17, 20173The Challenge: Renewal software and terminology to support MALT initiative The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) pursued a visionary e-health, future-proofed data environment for their members and stakeholders who...
The challenge: Adopting the international standard for healthcare data Electronic management of health information promises safer, more efficient and better quality healthcare. However, different health records often use various terms...
The challenge: Incompatible health data Australia’s health care system faces many challenges. One is the increasing demand for clinical information to be shared between individual health practitioners, health care provider...
Alejandro Metke
Andrew Patterson
Hugo Leroux
Hoa Ngo
Oisin Fitzgerald
Alejandro Metke
Dr Alejandro Metke leads the Health Data Interoperability team and has been heavily involved in the implementation of Ontoserver, a terminology server that has been licensed to the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA), as well as the development of tools to assist in the standardisation of patient phenotypic data for use in genomics.
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Andrew Patterson
Andrew Patterson was the designer and main developer for PenCAT, an award winning population health tool used in Australian general practice.
Hugo Leroux
The work on semantic enrichment and interoperability of clinical research data (2013 to date) has received worldwide attention and recognition from standards bodies (CDISC, W3C, FDA) including five citations in one Journal publication.
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Hoa Ngo
Duy-Hoa NGO is the author of YAM++: (not) Yet Another Ontology Matching tool, which achieved the best matching tool in the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative – OAEI 2012, 2013 campaigns
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Oisin Fitzgerald
Oisin is part of the industry PhD program, a collaboration between CSIRO, UNSW and an industry partner, in this case NSW Health. He is currently working on patient phenotyping to support new care pathways.
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