Automated extraction of heart failure concepts from clinical text for real-world applications
Campus Plus (Sabine Straver) are thrilled to announce the collaboration of UNSW with Eastern Heart Clinic on an industry-focused PhD project aimed at addressing key challenges in the Healthcare sector. This collaborative effort brings together academic expertise and industry insights to drive innovation and deliver real-world impact.
The project, titled "Automated extraction of heart failure concepts from clinical text for real-world applications" aims to streamline clinical workflows, enhance quality improvement efforts, and accelerate research, delivering tangible improvements in healthcare efficiency, research scalability and patient outcomes by leveraging emerging natural language processing techniques.
Leveraging UNSW renowned expertise in big data research in healthcare and Eastern Heart Clinic’s industry leadership in cardiovascular intervention, patient care and outcomes research, this project epitomises a collaborative approach that bridges the gap between academia and industry.
The Eastern Heart Clinic has a long-standing track record as an early adopter of clinical cardiac innovations. This collaboration with UNSW, brings these two aspects of our company's DNA together. Vicky's PhD work will be a key contributor in the development of a continuous health learning environment, providing real-time high quality clinical and outcome data. This will enable an automated, real-time understanding of the Clinic's patients, their outcomes, disparity, and the drivers of any disparity. The ultimate goal is to be increasingly responsive and data-driven, thus allowing the Eastern Heart Clinic to continue to deliver the highest level of patient care.
Blanca Gallego Luxan “This initiative will not only significantly advance our natural language processing capabilities, but will also demonstrate the practical impact of artificial intelligence in transforming the management of complex health conditions, such as heart failure, in our community”
Vicky Blake "I’m excited to bring my industry experience to this innovative project at the intersection of technology and patient care. By developing cutting-edge NLP tools to extract heart failure insights from clinical text, I aim to create solutions that not only support clinicians and cardiovascular research, but also improve patient outcomes. I’m deeply passionate about driving meaningful change in the healthcare industry, and this collaboration with UNSW and Eastern Heart Clinic is an incredible opportunity to make a real-world impact.”
This project will likely lead to highly useful tools that can be directly applied to clinical and research application such as clinical dashboards, clinical quality registry data collection and large-scale epidemiological research. Thank you Simon Kalucy.