Research and Teaching at the Centre for Online Health

The Centre for Online Health (COH) is a university research centre in Queensland, closely linked with (and located in) a tertiary hospital. Research at the COH is directed at the development of new models of healthcare delivery, models that are applicable in Australia and other countries. That is, models of healthcare delivery which are feasible, safe, clinically useful, cost-effective and sustainable. To achieve these goals means conducting clinical research trials. Thus the focus of the work at the COH is on clinical trials, not on technology development. The COH is responsible for a broad range of collaborative projects which explore and evaluate innovative methods of providing clinical services in metropolitan and regional environments, including telemedicine, health information systems and health education. Current research work can be divided into real-time and non-real-time applications