Big Data Analytics

Applying advanced analytics to big data—including the millions of records generated routinely by health services, clinical data captured at the point-of-care, and data generated by the population at large through technologies such as wearable devices and social media—in order to enhance health and wellbeing.

Competitive advantage

Internationally recognised expertise across the following capability areas:
Data science, data analytics, biostatistics, epidemiology and bioinformatics
Ethical, legal and policy frameworks relevant to using health big data
Secure management, sharing, curation and stewardship of health big data
Developing and delivering training in health data analytics
Communicating complex research findings through multiple modalities, including data visualisation, technical reports, plain-English briefings, multimedia products and social media

Impact

Bringing together researchers, consumers, clinicians, industry and government to frame relevant research questions, generate research designs that apply to real-world contexts, and commit to implementing the research and its findings.

Successful outcomes

Analysis of Healthdirect telephone helpline records, to identify whether people followed advice and the outcomes
Analysis of In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) treatment data to determine chances of success
Analysis of data for NSW children showing a later school start has clear developmental benefits

Capabilities and facilities

E-Research Institutional Cloud Architecture (ERICA) secure cloud-based platform for research using sensitive microdata.

Competitive advantage

Impact

Successful outcomes

Capabilities and facilities

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