Dr Matthew Chu, Clinical Research Chair
MBBS FACEM
Staff Specialist Emergency Physician, Director of Emergency Medicine, The Canterbury Hospital, NSW

Role and Responsibilities: Oversees research and development strategies, coordinates meetings and venues, moderates literature reviews

Dr Michael Dinh, Clinical Research Analyst
MBBS FACEM
Staff Specialist Emergency Physician, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, NSW

Roles and Responsibilities: Plans and coordinates the development of specific projects including literature search, proposals, ethics applications, grant applications and the conduct of research studies

Mr David Dinh, Clinical Systems Researcher and Operations Manager
BAppFin LLB

Founder of osTechnology Pty Ltd.

www.ostechnology.com.au specializing in research and development of new decision support systems for the hospital, patient healthcare, medical domain. Special interests include intelligent clinical decision support for application in the fast paced emergency and trauma environments, and clinical management guidance systems.

The Harvard Business Review (May 2006) recently published an article defining core innovation strategy objectives for IT innovators. In it, the author stated that IT innovations that “connect the islands of information in the health care system can vastly improve quality and lower costs”.

However, despite the vast expenditure in health IT in the last 5 years, it was noted that many ventures fail, including the collapse of managed care and biotech ventures. The result being that the full potential for IT innovation has not been realized. MSDRG focused on some of the factors identified in this article, which determined success or failure of past ventures.