Rate My Professor Enrico Coiera

Professor Enrico Coiera, MBBS, PhD, serves as Professor and Director of the Centre for Health Informatics at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, within the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences. He earned his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Sydney and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, specializing in Artificial Intelligence, from the University of New South Wales. Trained initially in medicine, Coiera spent ten years at Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories in Bristol, UK, where he led health technology projects. He co-founded the Centre for Health Informatics in 2000 and directs the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Digital Health. His research in Medical Informatics focuses on using digital health to address health service delivery problems, patient safety informatics, consumer e-health, translational bioinformatics, evidence-based decision support, text summarization methods for scientific discovery, and clinical communication. Coiera authored the textbook Guide to Health Informatics (3rd edition, 2015), which is widely used internationally and translated into several languages. He oversaw eHealth interventions such as the Healthy.me consumer system, underpinning technologies now used by a US health startup.

Coiera's contributions have earned him prestigious recognitions, including Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAAHMS), the 2015 International Medical Informatics Association François Grémy Award for Excellence, and in 2025, the first non-American Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. He is a Foundation Fellow and inaugural President of the Australasian College of Health Informatics, a Foundation Member of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, and an International Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. His influence extends through highly cited publications, such as 'Some unintended consequences of information technology in health care: the nature of patient care information system-related errors' (2004) and 'Conversational agents in healthcare: a systematic review' (2018). Coiera serves as Associate Editor for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and on editorial boards for Journal of Medical Internet Research and BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.