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PROF SIAW-TENG LIAW



Contact Details

Organization: Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Position: PROFESSOR-HEALTH INFORMATICS
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Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Health Informatics Electronic decision support Australia
General practice and primary health care Quality use of medicines Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Medical Science University of Tasmania 31-Dec-1973
Title Not Known Institution not known
Diploma in Obstetrics The University of Auckland 31-Dec-1984
Gr Dip Primary Health Care Flinders University of South Australia 31-Dec-1990
Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery University of Tasmania 31-Dec-1976
Doctor of Philosophy Flinders University of South Australia 31-Dec-1994

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Australian College of Health Informatics (FACHI) 31-Dec-2002
Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP) 09-Aug-1989

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Scholarship NHMRC Public Health Research Fellowship for 3 years 31-Dec-1990

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Doctors, their patients and computers: the new medical consultation - a study of the impact of computerisation of the doctor-patient relationship Chief Investigator NHMRC Medical & Dental Postgraduate Scholarships 01/01/2003
Doctors, Patients and Computers, the new consultation: A study on how doctor, patients and computers interact in the consultation Chief Investigator RACGP General Practice Informatics Scholarship 01/01/2004
RHAN INFORMATION SYSTEM LINKAGE Chief Investigator NHMRC Equipment Grants 01/01/2006
LITERATURE REVIEW OF CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE DIABETES CARE IN MAINSTREAM GENERAL PRACTICE FOR URBAN ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLE Chief Investigator RACGP Cardiovascular Research Grant in General Practice 27/07/2007
ACCESS TO MEDICARE ITEMS FOR CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT AND PREVENTATIVE HEALTH CARE BY GENERAL PRACTITIONERS IN INDIGENOUS HEALTH SERVICES Chief Investigator RACGP APHCRI Indigenous Health Award 13/10/2007
Culturally appropriate general practice services for Aboriginal Australians Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2008

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
AGGRESSION PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT IN THE VICTORIAN SECTOR Chief Investigator VIC WORKCOVER AUTHORITY,
MELBOURNE HEALTH,
NORTHEAST HEALTH WANGARATTA
20/10/2005

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • The active participants in mental health services
    Year: 2007
    Book: Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • A required rural health module increases students’ interest in rural health careers
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Rural and Remote Health
    Volume: 7
    Page numbers: 688
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  • Lessons from the NHS National Programme for IT
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 186
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 607-608
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Clinical, information and business process modeling to promote development of safe and flexible software
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Health Informatics Journal
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 199-211
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  • Rural eHealth paradox:  it's not just geography
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Journal of Rural Health
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 95--98
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Can Australian GP's trust their software?


    Year: 2006
    Event name: Health Informatics Society Australia, Bridging the Digital Divide: Clinician, consumer and computer
    Conference Publication: Health Informatics Society of Australia
    Page numbers: 19-20
    Publisher: Health Informatics Society of Australia(Brunswick)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • A compulsory experiential and inter-professional rural health subject for undergraduate students
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Rural and Remote Health
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 460
    Publisher: Deakin University(Burwood)
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  • Computer use in general practice consultations
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Family Physician
    Volume: 34
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 400
    Publisher: Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
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  • Falls risk assessment and management system (FRAMS)- a decision support tool developed for general practitioners and their primary care team
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The Hong Kong Practitioner
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 306-310
    Publisher: Hong Kong College of Family Physicians
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Decision support needs to be evidence based
    Year: 2004
    Journal: British Medical Journal
    Volume: 328
    Page numbers: 1566
    Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group(London)
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  • Developing a conceptual understanding of rural health practice
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Rural Health
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 181-186
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia
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  • Factors associated with ownership and use of written asthma action plans in North-West Melbourne
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Primary Care Respiratory Journal
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 211-217
    Publisher: Strategic Medical Publishing
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  • RACGP training registrars' perceptions and practice of prostate cancer screening
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Family Physician
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 188-190
    Publisher: Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Modelling the clinical processes of prescribing - the clinical practice dimension
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Health Informatics Conference 2004
    Conference Publication: HIC 2004 Proceedings
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: Health Informatics Society of Australia(Brunswick)
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  • Modelling the clinical processes of prescribing: Information, clinical workflow and processes
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Health Informatics Conference 2004
    Conference Publication: HIC 2004 Proceedings
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: Health Informatics Society of Australia(Brunswick)
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Reports

  • Modelling the Clinical Processes of Prescribing (MCPOP) Project
    Year: 2004
    Customer: Department of Health and Ageing, Health Systems Integration Section, Commonwealth Government of Australia
    Publisher: Department of Health and Ageing, Health Systems Integration Section(Canberra)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Australian doctors and their postgraduate qualifications
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Family Physician
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 1/2
    Page numbers: 92-94
    Publisher: Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
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  • Computerised evidence-based guidelines may not improve asthma or angina management in primary care
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Evidence - Based Healthcare
    Volume: 7
    Page numbers: 81-82
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(London)
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  • Continuing medical education for asthma in primary care settings: a review of randomised controlled trials
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Primary Care Respiratory Journal
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 119-123
    Publisher: Strategic Medical Publishing
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  • Doctors' perceptions and attitudes to prescribing within the Authority Prescribing System
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 178
    Issue: 3 March
    Page numbers: 203-206
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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  • Electronic decision support in general practice. Whats the hold up?
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Family Physician
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 941-944
    Publisher: Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
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  • Falls Prevention within the Australian General Practice Data Model: Methodology, Information Model and Terminology Issues
    Year: 2003
    Journal: American Medical Informatics Association Journal
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: Hanley and Belfus(Philadelphia)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Clinical Information Resource Use: understanding the problem is the solution
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Health Informatics Conference 2003
    Conference Publication: HIC2003 & RACGP12CC and HINZ2003 Proceedings CD ROM
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: Health Informatics Society of Australia(Brunswick)
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  • Conduit-Collaborative Network and Data Using Information Technology
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Health Informatics Conference 2003
    Conference Publication: HIC2003 & RACGP12CC and HINZ2003 Proceedings CD ROM
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: Health Informatics Society of Australia(Brunswick)
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  • The Clinicians Health Channel & Evidence-Based Health Care: Is computer use changing the way we work
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Health Informatics Conference 2003
    Conference Publication: HIC2003 & RACGP12CC and HINZ2003 Proceedings CD ROM
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: Health Informatics Society of Australia(Brunswick)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • A graduate certificate and masters in general practice psychiatry by distance education - 1998-2001
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Family Physician
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 394-397
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