11 - 13 October - Monash Health Innovation and Improvement Expo, Monash Medical Centre
Friday 28 October - Eastern Clinical School Affinity Meeting, Eastern Health
Thursday 29 September - Dr Andrew Nunn Seminar
The Potential of Current and Emerging Technology to Improve the Management and Lives of those with Spinal Cord Injury
RATIONALE
Traumatic spinal cord injury results in high disability and resource burden. The simplistic per annum costs are well in excess of $5 million for paraplegia and $10 million for tetraplegia. Solutions are there, but need application and translation of the technology so that they are suitable models for disability and aged care.
OPPORTUNITY
Functional outcomes of traumatic spinal cord injury can be optimised by applying a combination of emerging technologies.
1. Improved early management, diagnosis, prognosis to best plan management
- Neuro protection, ambulatory monitoring systems, neuro diagnostics, fMRI
- Augmenting limb function (nerve transfers are groundbreaking)
- Improving control and the physiological interface
- Motor and sensory control including cortical arrays, stents alone and in combination with other technology, providing better sensors and feedback, and overall a higher level control such as BMI.
- Respiration - (cough assist, diaphragmatic pacing)
- Bladder, bowel, sexual activity - (Brindley / Cleveland systems)
- Limbs function – (freehand and newer systems)
5. Assistive technology that can increase independence, control of environment and reduce care costs.
6. Rehabilitation therapy facilitated by technology (robots, tele rehabilitation virtual reality etc.) that needs an individualised approach.
The future challenge of traumatic spinal cord injury is not just using increasingly improved and available emerging technologies in medicine, surgery and assistive devices, but how to bring disciplines together and apply these disciplines in combination, and thus target particular areas for collaborative project funding.
Thursday, 29 September, New Horizons, G29/30 12.30 - 1.30pm please RSVP to Susan Newland susan.newland@monash.edu if you would like to attend.
11 - 13 October - Monash Health Innovation and Improvement Expo
Partnering for Innovation – Unlocking
creativity to inspire change.
The Monash Health Innovation and Improvement Expo is returning in 2016
with a range of events across major sites from 11 – 13 October.
The second annual event builds on the successes of last year by
unlocking creativity and partnership opportunities through a wide range of innovation
and improvement displays, workshops, speakers and events.
The
expo will feature a keynote address at Monash Medical Centre by Dr Louise
Schaper, leader of Australia’s peak professional organisation for digital
health and renowned advocate for the transformation of healthcare through
partnerships in technology and information. This will be followed by a series
of short presentations from staff, consumers and Monash Health partners whose
successes resonate with the Expo theme ‘Partnering for Innovation’.
This
year’s event will showcase a Technology Hub at the Clayton site, providing staff
and consumers with a hands-on experience of the latest technologies and
innovations in health. Staff will also have the opportunity to invigorate their
own improvement journey through the Breakfast Seminar: ‘Energising Your Profile at Monash Health’.
Three
Improvement Masterclasses will be held across bed-based and community sites.
These sessions, facilitated by Monash Health Innovation and Improvement
Advisors, will help staff transform their ideas to reality by breaking down
essential steps in a project lifecycle, equipping participants with useful tools
and resources to facilitate success.
Dandenong
Hospital will host the Breakfast Seminar, an ‘Introduction to Design Thinking.’ This forum will provide staff
with useful tools to cultivate empathy, drive cultural transformation and enhance
patient experience to facilitate improvement in the clinical environment.
The
HealthPlay, ‘Do You Know Me?’ will be
facilitated by the Hush Foundation at the Kingston Centre. This live
performance will invite the audience to reflect on the journey of care from the
patient and family perspective in an aged care setting and provide an
interactive forum for collaboration and participation to help deliver
excellence in patient and resident care.
Monash
Health Community provides the setting for a collaboration between Monash Health
Innovation and Improvement and Monash Community at 122 Thomas Street. This
event will feature an Improvement Masterclass and presentations from Monash
Community clinicians, celebrating and inspiring current and future innovation
and improvement opportunities in this setting.
Monash
Health is a place for innovation and improvement. Come and partner with us on this
journey!
Key dates:
Tuesday 11 October - Monash Community
Wednesday 12 October - Casey Hospital
Thursday 13 October - Monash Medical Centre ClaytonThursday 13 October - Kingston Centre
Thursday 13 October - Dandenong Hospital
For
more information please see the Monash Health Innovation and Improvement Expo
Program. Places are limited at some events so please RSVP to secure your place.
Friday 28 October - Eastern Clinical School Affinity Meeting
MIME Affinity Meetings provide an opportunity for clinician researchers at our hospital sites to connect to researchers with enabling expertise in the areas of engineering, IT, design, science and biomedicine, etc. The meetings aim to foster new collaborative connections for clinicians and researchers interested in developing leading edge medical technologies.
Earlier in 2016, affinity meetings were held at the Alfred and Monash Medical Centre. Our next affinity meeting is planned for Eastern Clinical School on Friday, 28 October from 2.00pm - 4.00pm. This affinity meeting will be in preparation for the 2017 MIME Seed Fund Round. If you would like to attend this meeting, please contact MIME's Executive Officer, Susan Newland susan.newland@monash.edu