e-Health Research Centre Receives CSIRO's Prestigious
Go for Growth Award
8 February 2005
Brisbane, Australia
The e-Health Research Centre, the Brisbane-based joint venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government, was awarded the prestigious Go for Growth Award in this year's CSIRO Awards. The CSIRO Go for Growth Award recognises initiatives that create investment capacity for organisational growth.
"This award re-enforces CSIRO and the Queensland Government's decision to establish the e-Health Research Centre," said CEO Gary Morgan. "The Centre has achieved critical mass in a short period of time and is now making an impact on the treatment of cancer patients."
The CSIRO Go for Growth Award is another milestone for this joint venture which has recently delivered its Health Data Integration™ product to Queensland Health. HDI™ will be used on lung cancer data sets initially to establish indicator reporting for policy/planning purposes, improve patient outcomes through clinicians accessing improved real-time views of their own data and other clinicians' data, and to facilitate further research outcomes.
"It was a great pleasure yesterday to attend the CSIRO Awards and see Gary Morgan accept a Go for Growth award on behalf of the e-Health Research Centre. The award acknowledges the great achievements of Gary, his team at the Centre, and a large number of ICT Centre people who contributed to making the e-HRC a reality, and to its highly successful first year of operations," said Dr Alex Zelinsky, Director of the CSIRO ICT Centre.
Background on the e-Health Research Centre
The e-Health Research Centre, a $15 million joint venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government, is at the forefront of e-health innovation in Australia and globally, and will revolutionise the way Queensland's health sector delivers services in the future.
Its world-class researchers conduct trials on e-health solutions in Queensland and undertake R&D into critical health conditions such as cancer and stroke, with the aim of building knowledge on how the next generation of information and communication technologies can improve the delivery of patient-centred health care.
For further information contact:
Gary Morgan
Chief Executive Officer
e-Health Research Centre
Mobile: 0412 177 780
Phone: 07 3024 1600