Justin Boyle

Research Scientist

Contact

The Australian e-Health Research Centre
CSIRO ICT Centre
Level 5 - UQ Health Sciences Building
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
HERSTON QLD 4029

Tel: 61 7 3253 3606
Fax: 61 7 3253 3690
Email

Themes

• E-Health

Projects

• Patient Admissions Prediction Project
• Predictive Modelling for Chronic Disease Hospital Avoidance

Biography

I am passionate about the application of engineering to reducing the severity of disease or disability. I have a mechanical engineering background in the areas of due diligence, project management, contract management, construction supervision and commissioning, tender evaluation and engineering design. Currently I am leading a project involving modelling patient flow and forecasting patient admissions through public hospitals.

Academic Qualifications

PhD	Queensland University of Technology
BEng	1st class Hons, University of Queensland/University of Waterloo (Canada)

Recent Professional Experience

2004-Present	Research Scientist, E-Health Research Centre, ICT Centre
2000-2004	PhD, Queensland University of Technology
1995-2000	Project Manager, Contract Manager, Superintendent's Representative, Construction Supervisor, Mechanical Engineer, Sinclair Knight Merz

Achievements & Awards

-	Winner of the Don Walker Award for Efficiency - Health Informatics Society of Australia (2010)
-	Winner of the Queensland iAward (recognizing innovation in the ICT sector) in the eHealth category (2009)
-	Awarded finalist in ACI Software Innovation - Aged Care & Healthy Ageing (2006)
-	Twice awarded first prize conference paper competition (2001, 2002)

Summary of Science & Technical Output

Grants

2009	Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation
2007	Qld Government (Dept Tourism, Regional Dev & Industry)
2002	ARC Linkage (APAI)
1999	AusAID

Top 10 Publications

Publication details
Boyle J, Jessup M, Crilly J, Green D, Lind J, Wallis M, Miller P, Fitzgerald G. Predicting emergency department admissions. Emerg Med J. 2011 Jun 24
Boyle J, Wireless Technologies and Patient Safety in Hospitals, Telemedicine Journal and E-Health, 12(3), 2006, 373-382
Boyle J, Bidargaddi N, Sarela A, Karunanithi M, “Automatic Detection of Respiration Rate from Ambulatory Single Lead ECG”, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine 13(6): 890-6, 2009
Boyle J, Maeder A, Boles W, Image Enhancement for Electronic Visual Prostheses, Australian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine Journal 25(2), pp.81-86, 2002
Boyle J, Maeder A, Boles W, Region-Of-Interest Processing for Electronic Visual Prostheses, Journal of Electronic Imaging 17(1), 013002 (Jan–Mar 2008)
Boyle J, Crilly J, Keijzers G, Wallis M, Lind J, Sparks R, Ryan L, Impact of influenza across 27 public emergency departments in Australia: a 5-year descriptive study, Emergency Medicine Journal. 2011 Oct 27
Boyle J, Wallis M, Jessup M, Crilly J, Lind J, Miller P, Fitzgerald G, Regression Forecasting of Patient Admission Data, 30th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 20-24 August 2008
Boyle J, Karunanithi M, Wark T, Chan W, Colavitti C, Quantifying Functional Mobility Progress for Chronic Disease Management, 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, New York, 31 Aug – 3 Sep 2006, 5916-5919
Boyle JR, Sparks RS, Keijzers GB, Crilly JL, Lind JF, Ryan LM. Prediction and surveillance of influenza epidemics. Med J Aust. 2011 Feb 21;194(4):S28-33.
Jessup M, Wallis M, Boyle J, Crilly J, Lind J, Green D, Miller P, Fitzgerald G. Implementing an emergency department patient admission predictive tool: Insights from practice. J Health Organ Manag. 2010;24(3):306-18

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