Daniel Capurro Nario

Professor Daniel Capurro Nario is Professor in Digital Health in the School of Computing and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, at the University of Melbourne. He serves as Deputy Director of the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health and leads the National Antimicrobial Prescribing Survey within the Data for Decisions research group. A medical doctor trained in internal medicine with an MD from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, he earned his PhD in Biomedical and Health Informatics from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2012. His qualifications include Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP), Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (FACMI), Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA), and Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (FAIDH). Previously, he was Chief Medical Information Officer for the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile healthcare network, overseeing two hospitals and eleven clinics for four years, and founded the Chilean National Centre for Health Information Systems, a five-university collaboration to advance healthcare interoperability standards and informatics workforce development.

Professor Capurro Nario's research specializes in health informatics, focusing on methods to enhance clinical data utilization for research, including electronic health records, process mining in healthcare, artificial intelligence applications in clinical settings, and digital health transformation. He teaches the subject Digital Transformation of Health (ISYS90069) and supervises PhD students in artificial intelligence within the School of Computing and Information Systems. Key contributions include the development of Validitron for clinical data validation and participation in initiatives like the Young Stroke Service and sustainable healthcare research priority-setting workshops. Notable publications encompass his 2012 PhD dissertation on electronic health records, 'Identifying Frailty in Older Adults in Rural Victoria, Australia: A Secondary Analysis of Population Health Data' (featured journal article), 'A multilevel perspective of the barriers, enablers and strategies to the implementation of learning health systems' (2024), 'Implementation of a digital coordination centre in a hospital' (2025, PubMed), and contributions to 'Transforming the Future of Digital Health Education: Redesign of a Master of Health Informatics Subject' (2024). His work advances learning health systems, clinical AI, and digital health education globally.

Professional Email: dcapurro@unimelb.edu.au