Rate My Professor Jodie Austin

Dr Jodie Austin is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Services Research and Clinical Informatics Director at the Queensland Digital Health Centre, both within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland. She holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy, Graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, and Doctor of Philosophy in Health Informatics from the University of Queensland, awarded in 2024. Her PhD thesis, 'Exploring the impact of electronic medication management on the safety and quality of therapeutic anticoagulation', examines how digital systems enhance medication safety and quality. Austin's research specializations include clinical informatics, digital health interventions, electronic medical records, anticoagulation management, patient flow optimization, data visualization, and synthetic data applications. Her career features involvement in key funded projects: the SMART Project for maturing healthcare analytics (2022-2023, Queensland Health), HAI-TECH for infection tracking via informatics (2024-2025, Metro North Hospital and Health Service), and Automated Clinical Data Extraction for toxicology and emergency outcomes (2025-2027, Emergency Medicine Foundation).

Austin has co-authored impactful publications such as 'The impact of closed-loop electronic medication management on time to first dose' (International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 2018), 'Interventions designed to improve the safety and quality of therapeutic anticoagulation in an inpatient electronic medical record' (International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2020), 'Safe and effective digital anticoagulation: a continuous iterative improvement approach' (ACI Open, 2021), 'The effect of digitisation on the safe management of anticoagulants' (Applied Clinical Informatics, 2022), 'Patient flow in emergency departments: a comprehensive umbrella review' (BMC Health Services Research, 2024), and 'Development of a digital dashboard to address population-level obesity' (Public Health Research and Practice, 2025). Leading the Clinical Informatics team at QDHeC, she drives innovations in learning health systems, federated learning, and ethical data use for chronic and infectious disease management, influencing digital health infrastructure evolution.