Bridging the gap between clinicians, researchers and patients
Information and data management systems across research and health-based organisations often do not integrate, so clinicians and researchers struggle to access the data they need for treatment and research.
MindData is a shared data system across Mindgardens Member universities, hospitals, clinics and research institutes. MindData lets patients enter clinical trials from any point in our network, with their records accessible to approved collaborators. That improves efficiency and creates more meaningful insights across mental health, drug and alcohol and neurological disorders.
What MindData does
MindData incorporates an innovative data management platform – the Research Operational Data Environment (RODE).
RODE allows for data sharing across organisations, enabling information access for research and clinical decision support. The RODE platform focuses on:
- Improving the completeness of patients’ medical records
- Streamlining researchers’ access to the data
- Automating analysis of the records
- Project collaboration across the Mindgardens Member organisations
Funding Sources
- Commonwealth grant funding awarded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
MindData Research Lead
Professor Chris White
Professor Chris White
Professor Chris White is the Director of the Department of Endocrinology at the Prince of Wales Hospital and a Conjoint Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of NSW. He is the clinical director of the analytical laboratory endocrine services at the Prince of Wales Hospital and supervises the osteoporosis and bone mineral density clinics for the campus of hospitals co-located at Randwick.
He has strong links across the Randwick precinct including Mental Health, Sydney Children’s Hospital and Royal Hospital for Women and supports research activities investigating risk of readmission, inpatient and community based diabetes management, gestational diabetes and survivors of childhood cancer.
A/Prof White led the development of software for clinical decision making, natural language processing and a distributed data platform for widespread use and safe and secure access to patient health records. He is currently the Interim Executive Director of Maridulu Budyari Gumal – the Sydney Partnership for Health Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE).
Mindgardens Neuroscience Network acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures, and to Elders past, present and emerging.
We acknowledge the voices of people with lived experience, their carers, families and kinship groups. We recognise the expertise acquired through living with a mental health, drug and alcohol or neurological disorder and acknowledge those who care for people on their recovery journey. We place lived experience at the heart of all that we do.
Brings together the strengths of four founding organisations
