Wendy Chapman
Ideas Over Implementation: Where Design Thinking Goes Wrong
I participated in a three-day innovation workshop recently that was inspiring but also frustrating due to what I would call...
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Making Sense of My Career and the Field of Health Informatics and Digital Health
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Wendy Chapman
Sep 295 min read
Hobnobbing in Singapore: Do I Belong in This Crowd?
I don’t normally hang out with investors and philanthropists, but I attended the Milken Institute Asia Summit last week in Singapore....
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Wendy Chapman
Aug 183 min read
Evidence Generation: Is this really the best solution to your problem?
You don’t have to look far to see the results of not iteratively generating evidence for digital health and AI--in fact, you can just...
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Wendy Chapman
Jul 143 min read
Can Academics and Hospital Operations Be True Partners?
As a student at LDS Hospital in the 1990’s, my PhD supervisor and other mentors were embedded in leadership and operational positions,...
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Wendy Chapman
Apr 144 min read
Do Universities Really Want Inclusion?
I was a guest on the University of Melbourne’s Supporting Women in MDHS (SWiM) webinar and had a great discussion with the host, Natalie...
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Wendy Chapman
Mar 173 min read
EHRs can Exacerbate being Unseen, Unheard, and Unbelieved
The #EndGenderBias Survey Summary Report was just released by the Australian Government and National Women’s Health Advisory Council, and...
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Wendy Chapman
Mar 33 min read
Consumer voice, interoperability, and connected care
Interoperability is the number one need for consumers--that was a bold claim from a consumer panel facilitated by Pip Brennan at the...
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Wendy Chapman
Feb 53 min read
Hero Projects Aren't Enough for Transformation. How Can Academics Contribute to a Learning Health System: Part 4
As a new chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah, I wanted to bridge the gap between informatics...
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Wendy Chapman
Jan 283 min read
Embedding Expertise: How can Academics Contribute to a Learning Health System? Part 3
In the previous post, I showed van der Vegt et al.’s SALIENT framework for end-to-end AI implementation, and one reason SALIENT resonates...
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Wendy Chapman
Jan 212 min read
Infrastructure: How can Academics Contribute to a Learning Health System? Part 2
"Why clinical AI is (almost) non-existent in Australian hospitals and how to fix it" is the name of a recent article by van der Vegt,...
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Wendy Chapman
Jan 153 min read
Within Without: How can Academics Contribute to a Learning Health System? Pt 1.
A driving goal for our Centre for Digital Transformation of Health is to partner with healthcare organizations in becoming a learning...
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Wendy Chapman
Dec 17, 20232 min read
Graduation and Thesis Defenses: Rituals to Mark Endings
As the year winds down, I’ve been thinking about rituals to mark endings. My son just received an email from ANU with digital copies of...
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Wendy Chapman
Nov 19, 20233 min read
Social Hierarchies at AMIA and on the Playground
Several people at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) conference this year told me they felt out of place and not part of...
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Wendy Chapman
Nov 6, 20232 min read
Algorithms and Disparity
Algorithms can improve equitable outcomes and can increase discrimination. How we evaluate the algorithms from conception to deployment...
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Wendy Chapman
Oct 22, 20233 min read
What's a Doctor-centred Patient and how do I become one?
“Why can’t providers decide what information should be put into [a patient's] My Health Record?” That was a question from a clinician in...
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Wendy Chapman
Oct 15, 20233 min read
How can standards support connected care in Australia?
Connected care is the theme of the Strengthening Medicare report that was released in February 2023, outlining a vision for Australia’s...
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Wendy Chapman
Oct 8, 20233 min read
Collaboration and Leadership: Oil and Water?
I like to think that I have a very collaborative leadership style, but sometimes I find it hard to balance being collaborative and being...
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Wendy Chapman
Oct 2, 20233 min read
History of Data, Computation, and Technology: Data-driven Diagnosis
When I was 11, I told my stepdad about these cool new pants kids were wearing at school: Levi Strauss jeans. He laughed and informed me...
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Wendy Chapman
Sep 23, 20233 min read
What could go wrong?
Because I’ve been more on the methodological side of the translational research continuum for most of my career, perhaps it isn’t...
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Wendy Chapman
Sep 17, 20234 min read
Does your publication tell a story worth telling?
It’s the 20th anniversary of The Tale of Despareux by Kate DiCamillo, and this is a book the world needs. I regularly wonder how much of...
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