Vaegan Seminar

Please join us for our first Vaegan seminar for Term 2 which will be presented by Dr Audrey P. Wang (Westmead Emerging Technology for Health Hub).

Title: Driving intrapreneurial change in health services : observational insights from two case studies in sepsis and COVID-19

Speaker: Dr Audrey P. Wang (Westmead Emerging Technology for Health Hub)

Location: G31 Old Main Building (UNSW Kensington, nearest entry Gate 14 Barket St).

Time/Date: 1-2pm Friday 5 June 2026

Abstract: Understanding how clinicians’ corresponding behaviours interact for intrapreneurial change in healthcare settings is often a quagmire. This talk discusses how to obtain clinician engagement insights from routine digital health deployments like dashboards that now occupy and compete for clinicians' attention as they go about their daily clinical rounds and duties. The first case study discusses the insights we derived using eye tracking technologies with Think Aloud methods for understanding clinician behavior for critical action on sepsis in the emergency department waiting room.  The second case study talks about how design researchers used modified design methods to derive key insights for acceptance of a COVID-19 screening system in a children’s hospital.

References:

1. Noselli M, Van Der Vegt A, Cordeil M, Campbell V, Wang AP, Shetty A, Scott IA. Presenting Artificial Intelligence Predictions Based on Electronic Medical Records to Clinicians in Hospitals: A Scoping Review. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform. 2025 May 21;PP. doi: 10.1109/JBHI.2025.3572494. 
2. Peter Wagner, Soojeong Yoo, Shailendra Sawleshwarkar, and Audrey P Wang. 2026. Designing for Rapid Decisions: Eye-Tracking and Usability Analysis of an Emergency Department Sepsis Dashboard. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 221, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3798569
3. Yoo, S., Gulbransen-Diaz, N., Parker, C., & Wang, A. P. (2023). Designing Digital COVID-19 Screening: Insights and Deliberations. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(5), 3899.https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20053899..PMID:36900909; PMCID:PMC10001447;DOI:

Bio: Dr. Audrey P. Wang  is Senior Lecturer in Digital Health, inaugural Program Director, Graduate Studies in Digital Health and Data Science, FMH from 2020-2025. Research Lead in Digital Health at Westmead Emerging Technology for Health Hub (WEmTech) a consortium of research labs and initiatives at Westmead Health Precinct.  She leads Digital-Health-Innovation (Collaborative) Lab – a team-science approach at the intersection of transdisciplinary emerging technologies and health informatics and supports formative implementation science evaluations. 

She was recognized for her contributions to researcher- clinician ecosystems with a 2024 Sydney Health Partners Researcher-Clinician Collaboration Across the SHP Partnership award, supporting the clinician- researcher ecosystems. She led the evaluation of the design and implementation of Proactive Sepsis Pilot at Westmead ED  with an Australian-first implementation of clinical AI, involving the Ministry of Health, Clinical Excellence Commission, eHealth NSW, NSW Pathology and Western Sydney Local Health District. This project had been cited as the first implementation of clinical AI in Australian hospitals (doi:10.5694/mja2.52195) outside of imaging-based products and informs the Agency for Clinical Innovation living evidence guidelines for clinical applications of artificial intelligence. https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/statewide-programs/critical-intelligence-unit/artificial/clinical-applications. Her lab designed, developed, and implemented the COVID-19 Smart IoT Screening System Pilot at Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, winning the 2021 Australian Internet of Things Awards (Health) and a national best health IT project finalist nomination for iTNews Benchmark Awards 2022. Since 2024, she leads the Australian Hub for the Global Health Hackathon with > 30 other countries, as part of a global health system innovation challenge with Harvard Health System Innovation Labs.