Last month, the Centre for Human Factors and Systems Science (link to the Centre) hosted their 2026 research symposium. The event brought together Human Factors professionals, safety specialists and systems thinking practitioners at UniSC for two days of presentations...
Dr Kenji Fujita, Dr Marion Matheson, Dr Bhavya Valecha and Professor Sarah Hilmer recently published a study in Drug Safety. Their study developed a two-stage system that combines rule-based extraction with an open-source large language model to identify deprescribing...
Our CRE post-doctoral fellow Dr Bethany Van Dort as a panel member (second from the left) On the 3rd of September 2026, Professor Melissa Baysari and Dr Bethany Van Dort contributed to a World Patient Safety Day event hosted by the Community and Primary Health Care...
Our next HF-AI-CRE Community of Practice (CoP) webinar will be held on 23 September. The topic is Usability of AI-Enabled Clinical Decision Support: Current Developments in the Field of Human Factors Engineering in Health Informatics. As AI-enabled clinical decision...
In August 2026, Dr Ann Carrigan, Tamasha Jayawardena, Selvana Awad and Prof. Melissa Baysari facilitated a learning lab at the Health Innovation Community (HIC) digital health conference, held at the International Convention Centre (ICC) Sydney. The event focused on...
PhD student in the Digital Health Human Factors Research Group, Dr Emma Tay, was awarded the Branko Cesnik award for best student academic paper at this year’s HIC conference. Her paper titled "Implementation of a statewide prescription drug monitoring program –...
Community of Practice PhD student, Tim Yu, recently published a scoping review in the International Journal of Medical Informatics. His review titled “Adoption and utility of digital scribes in clinical practice - A scoping review” showed that AI scribes are being...
Researchers from the Digital Health Human Factors Group are delivering a Learning Lab at this year’s Health Innovation Community (HIC) Conference, in Sydney on 3-4 August. HIC brings together Australia’s digital health community, including academics, industry,...
The Honourable Anthony Albanese PM visited the University of Sydney to deliver an address on "AI in Australia's Interest" and announced the launch of a new Office of AI within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. He spoke about legislating a national standard...