Exciting news! Laura and I got engaged half way around the North Face 100, a 100km trail run in the NSW blue mountains. Check out the race report and photos.

The proposal half the way around the North Face 100. Founders of Brisbane Running tours get engaged! Come sightrunning in Brisbane.

I headed into the inaugural Ironman 70.3 on the Sunshine Coast off the back of some quite light training. The event was in a really beautiful location and only an hour and a half away from home.

Not knowing how fast I would cycle I was really happy to complete my first 70.3 race in 4hrs 45 mins, much faster than hoped and setting a worryingly fast time to beat in my next 70.3!

A an online tool for bronchoscopy anatomy training (eLAnT) developed at The Australian eHealth Research Centre was awarded a Queensland Merit Award for Education. The tool can be found here http://lunganat.appspot.com/ if you would like a play.

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I was invited to outline some of the bronchoscopy applications we have been developing at the 2013 AEHRC colloquium.

The event (program) was attended by around 275 people and slides on the talk can be found here

Speakers on the day were:

• Prof Bruce Barraclough AO, Chair, The Australian e-Health Research Centre
• Mr Ray Brown, Chief Information Officer, Queensland Health – The Future of e-Health in Queensland
• Dr Jennifer Zelmer, Senior Vice President, Clinical Adoption and Innovation,
• Canada Health Infoway – Canada’s Health Infoway Journey
• Prof Yogesan Kanagasingam, The Australian e-Health Research Centre – CSIRO Tele-health projects
• Dr Anthony Smith, Deputy Director and Associate Professor, Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland – Delivering Specialist Healthcare to Remote Communities: Telehealth Developments in Queensland
• Dr Mohanraj Karunanithi, Research Scientist, The Australian e-Health Research Centre -The Results are in: Mobile Phone-based Programs Work
• A/Prof Stephen Winn, Academic Director, Faculty of The Professions, University of New England – Smarter Safer Homes
• Mr Alan Hamilton, Statewide Telehealth Service, WA Country Health Service – Tele-health in Western Australia
• Prof Roslyn Boyd, Scientific Director, UQ Qld Cerebral Palsy Research Centre and A/Prof Stephen Rose, Research Scientist, The Australian e-Health Research Centre – Tele-rehabilitation for Cerebral Palsy
• Prof Helen Chenery, Director Asia-Pacific Centre for Neuromodulation, UQCCR, The University of Queensland – The Smartphone as a Remote Monitoring Device in Parkinson’s disease
• Dr Cédric Dumas, Research Scientist, The Australian e-Health Research Centre and Dr Timothy Coles, Post Doctoral Fellow, The Australian e-Health Research Centre – Simulation-based Bronchoscopy Training
• Shoni Colquist, Health Research Fellow, Queensland Cancer Control Analysis Team, Queensland Health – The Experience of Intensive Care Clinicians using Telehealth
• Donna Truran, Clinical Terminologist, The Australian e-Health Research Centre – Preparing for SNOMED Implementation – A Case Study

A tech-note explaining how we have used low cost technology to record  multiple synchronized video feeds in a bronchoscopy task analysis will be detailed in the July 2013 issue of Ergonomics in design

Ergonomics in Design: The Quarterly of Human Factors Applications, is intended to serve the needs of practicing human factors/ergonomics professionals who are concerned with the usability of products, systems, tools, and environments.”

The full paper tile is “A low-cost, flexible and lightweight recording system for task analysis using multiple synchronized video cameras” Timothy Coles, Cedric Dumas.

Abstract

The authors report their experience from various task analysis projects in which users have been observed in situ. Solutions for simultaneous video recording, often needed to adequately observe and post analyze a workspace, are discussed. Of the various analog- and digital-based solutions, the authors deem a low-cost solution using entry-level computer hardware to produce sufficiently high-fidelity feedback for most task analysis purposes. Such systems can be acquired and set up by novice computer users for a fraction of the cost of broadcast video systems. A case study demonstrates the application of one such inexpensive solution.

A year ago my need for a challenge found me entering the hardest sporting even I could think of. An Ironman triathlon. A 3.8km swim followed by a 180 Km cycle and finished off by a 42.2Km run!

I hadn’t swam in years, never ridden a road bike and had run 10Km.

The result… thankfully I didn’t die and finished in just over 11hrs

My abstract “Using low cost devices to provide metrics for motor skills training” has been selected to appear in The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare

Selected Abstracts of Free Papers Presented at the SimHealth: Innovation, Education and Research in Healthcare Conference: September 10-13, 2012 Sydney, Australia

Details:

Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. 8(3):197-204, June 2013. doi: 10.1097/SIH.0b013e31829a3bd8

I presented some of techniques we have been using /expect to using at the eHealth Research center at SimHealth 2012.

The abstract can be found here.