Calling software engineers

Want to change the world in two months? We’ve got short-term paid casual work at NICTA.

Is this you?

• want to work with Australia’s leading ICT research organisation?
• want to develop your research in multi-professional and interdisciplinary design and implementation team?
• want to learn about commercial ICT projects?
• want to learn more about natural language processing?
• want a summer/autumn/winter project or thesis topic?

We’ve got projects for 1-3 months in January-June, 2013

1. Setting up a NLP pipeline for feature extraction
2. Topic segmentation and labeling of nursing notes with respect to the categories of Identification of the patient; Clinical presentation/history; Clinical status; Care plan and; Outcome of care and remainders for the shift

Sounds great? Well, show us you’ve got:

• An awesome software engineering CV with speciality in any of computer science, applied mathematics, computational linguistics, or statistics
• A love of programming and experimentation
• And some interest in natural language processing is a bonus

Here’s what you look like:

Real programmers ship. You’re capable of running your own project, you can test outcomes and provide documentation and you’re a team worker who can interact with supervisors and the project team. Most of all, you deliver.

You may also like to use this experience as a basis for a thesis, a journal publication or just basic awesome work experience – that’s your call.

Get to it!

Prepare your application, including an application letter, CV, transcript of study records and one-page research proposal. Remember to specify your salary request and whether you prefer Project 1 or Project 2.

Email Hanna.Suominen@nicta.com.au and Leif.Hanlen@nicta.com.au no later than Nov 31, 2012. Please use the subject line of NLP project application

Global Telehealth 2012

The Global Telehealth conference was a great success last week.

We heard from a wide range of views, and several international groups. Half of the submission were international and one of the key messages seemed to be, there’s nothing particularly unique about the Australian experience and problems. Presenters looked into how business cases could be built and sustained, and avoiding pilot-itis

NICTA was a sponsor of the 2nd International Conference on Global Telehealth, which will be held from 26-28 November 2012 in Sydney. Speakers including myself and Hanna Suominen delivered peer-reviewed technical presentations on telehealth research, practice and evidence. The event covered a wide range of telehealth related topics including telemedicine, teleconsutation, telediagnosis, telemonitoring, telecare, and teletraining.

For more information on the conference visit Global Telehealth.

The Australian Telehealth Society (supporter for the conference) announced the Ministerial opening of the conference, and will put up slides soon.

CSIRO also launched its white-paper in the delivery of telehealth via satellite services. A good review can be found in the ABC interview. The report is available from the CSIRO site.

Storify

This week I’m also experimenting with Storify. The Storify version of the social discussion around the #GT2012 tag is available.

Health Worforce Australia: reviewing telehealth

Health Workforce Australia is looking to perform a review of telehealth skills across Austraslia, some material from HWA is below

Health Workforce Australia (HWA) was established as a national health workforce agency through the National Partnership Agreement on Hospital and Health Workforce reform. HWA drives a strategic long-term program which addresses the future challenges of providing a skilled, flexible and innovative health workforce.

The reforms are needed to address workforce shortages and to ensure Australia’s health workforce can meet increased demands for services resulting from an ageing population, increasing levels of chronic diseases and community expectations.

Recent research by HWA, Health Workforce 2025, indicates the need for co-ordinated, long-term reforms of the health sector workforce and the way it currently operates in order to ensure that Australia’s health workforce can meet increasing demands for health services effectively and efficiently.

More information will become available from Health Workforce Australia.