University of Tasmania, Australia

Tasmania is rapidly becoming recognised as an ideal testing environment for both research into and the development of innovative health-centric information management and communication technology solutions.This island is representative of the spectrum of health and socio-economic challenges facing contemporary Western societies looking to leverage proactive eHealth strategies and offers the opportunity to measure the benefits of regional and remote access to full broadband capabilities.

The mission of the eHealth Research Centre is to profile and promote the cutting edge eHealth, health informatics, m-health, health technology and related research occuring at UTAS, both within the university and beyond. At the same time we will aim to provide a contact point for UTAS researchers to help foster and support their eHealth-related research development and assist in positioning them for linkage to potential collaborations through networking communication and other activity