The DARE Centre opened in May 2018.
Data science greatly accelerates the rate of clinical research findings, allows for the analysis of more complex datasets than traditional research, and provides clinicians with information that allows them to make data-driven decisions.
The field of big data analytics is developing quickly, and the establishment of the DARE Centre places Austin Health at the forefront of this new area of research, particularly in healthcare
Researchers at the Centre published their first research paper in August 2018 in the Journal of Critical Care. That research showed that it is possible to identify which patients presenting to the Emergency Department with a suspected infection (sepsis) are at higher risk of mortality and a long stay in the Intensive Care, using three pieces of data: blood pressure, respiratory rate and mental functioning.
We have an expanding number of research projects generated via large electronic data sets at Austin Health and published in high quality peer-reviewed international journals. A landmark paper published in Intensive Care Medicine has used the power of natural language processing to improve detection of possible delirium in intensive care unit patients and has garnered international attention.
The DARE Centre is currently collaborating on research with a number of the other departments at Austin Health, including Oncology, Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine, Anaesthesia, Spinal, Endocrinology, Cardiac Surgery, Renal, Infectious Diseases, and others.
Data science greatly accelerates the rate of clinical research findings, allows for the analysis of more complex datasets than traditional research, and provides clinicians with information that allows them to make data-driven decisions.
Professor Rinaldo Bellomo
Director, Data Analytics Research and Evaluation Centre
rinaldo.bellomo@austin.org.au
Dr. Natasha Holmes
Senior Research Fellow
natasha.holmes@austin.org.au