While attending a networking event at a national start-up incubator, Cicada Innovations, I left with more than a cold piece of pizza. That evening one of the speakers suggested an effective start-up team requires a hipster (the ideas ‘man’), a hustler (the business acumen) and a hacker (developer). During question time I tentatively asked a … Read more
In case you’d like to know more about learning health environments and how Lymbase will grow to become a learning health environment (with your continued engagement) here is an article that summarises the process and purpose. This was published in the November 2020 publication of the Australasian Lymphoedema Association – Lymph Express. Read it here.
I had the very great privilege of traversing NSW to see how lymphoedema therapists assess lymphoedema, what they do with the objective results they get, and how they describe the subjective changes that they feel and observe. These clinicians were from various professions, settings (metropolitan and rural), and sectors (public and private). If you’d like … Read more
To better understand how lymphoedema is assessed and reported we wanted to unpack the breadth of outcomes and assessment tools used, and the terms used when describing lymphoedema. **The ‘we’ in this sentence refers to the research team who guided me through my doctoral studies: Assoc. Professor Simon Poon (Information systems); Professor Tim Shaw (Translational … Read more
It’s a question that confronts any health practitioner. We need to know whether the treatment we provided made a difference for our patient. We also (should) want the answer to inform the treatment of those patients to follow. For many specialties, Did I make a difference? is a straightforward question: Infection resolved? Let’s take your … Read more