Associate Professor Anupama Ginige
Deputy Dean - School of Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences,
Dean's Unit, Computer, Data & Math Sciences
Deputy Dean - School of Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences,
Dean's Unit, Computer, Data & Math Sciences
Associate Professor in Health Informatics,
Computing & ICT
Biography
Anupama is an Associate Professor in Health Informatics in the School of Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences at Western Sydney University. Anupama has completed her undergraduate studies in Applied Mathematics and postgraduate studies in IT. Prior to joining academia,Anupama had worked in the software development industry. She was awarded her PhD in 2008 for a project where she extended theuse of KlneeAlgebra with Tests for tracking the propagating impact of business processchanges in fully and partially automated information systems.
This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Ginige.
Qualifications
- PhDCompInfoTech University of Western Sydney
- Solution Consultant SAP Global
- MInfoTech University of Western Sydney
- BSc University of Peradeniya
Professional Memberships
- HIMAA Research Advisory Committee (2016)
Awards
- Highly Commended for University Engagement in Vice Chancellors Awards 2008-12-05
- Excellence in Teaching UWS Learning and Teaching Awards 2014-12-09
Interests
- Health Information Management
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Dean's Unit, Computer, Data & Math Sciences
- Dean's Unit, Computer, Data & Math Sciences
- Computing & ICT
Contact
| Email: | j.Ginige@westernsydney.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9685 9439 |
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| Location: | ER.1.13 Parramatta |
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Teaching
Previous Teaching Areas
- 300578 Professional Development, 2010
- 300579 Professional Experience, 2018
- 300582 Technologies for Web Applications, 2014
- 300583 Web Systems Development, 2014
- 300597 Master Project 1, 2018
- 300598 Master Project 2, 2018
- 300692 Workflow Management Systems, 2016
- 300900 Professional Experience (Advanced), 2018
- 300951 Clinical Classification and Coding, 2018
- 300955 Healthcare Data Environments, 2018
- 301005 Professional Practice and Communication, 2015
- 301047 ICT Practicum, 2017
- 301178 Advanced Health Classifications and Coding, 2018
Publications
Books
- Ginige, J. and Maeder, A. (2018), 'Transforming Healthcare Through Innovation in Digital Health: Selected Papers from Global Telehealth 2018', : IOS Press 9781614999133.
- Ginige, J. (2009), 'Change Impact Analysis to Manage Process Evolutions: Managing Process Evolutions in Web-Based Workflow Management Systems', : VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG 9783639171860.
Chapters in Books
- Ginige, J., Boulamatsis, C., Heffernan, M., San Jose, J., Chuprov, I., Chau, T., Maeder, A., Valenzuela, M., Fiatarone Singh, M., Mavros, Y., Noble, Y., Radd-Vagenas, S., Guerrero, Y., Jain, N., O'Leary, F., Kochan, N. and Brodaty, H. (2020), 'Fully-online, interoperable clinical trial management system for multi-interventional RCT : Maintain Your Brain digital platform ', Information Technology Based Methods for Health Behaviours: Selected Papers from Global Telehealth 2019, IOS Press 9781643680583.
- Bernacchio, C., Wilson, J. and Ginige, J. (2020), 'Telehealth utilization in low resource settings', Sustainable Community Health: Systems and Practices in Diverse Settings, Springer 9783030596866.
Journal Articles
- Stunden, A., Ginige, A., O'Reilly , R., Sanagavarapu, P., Heaton, L. and Jefferies, D. (2024), 'Nursing students' preparedness for the digitalised clinical environment in Australia : an integrative review', Nurse Education in Practice, vol 75 .
- Gunawardena, N., Ginige, J. and Javadi, B. (2023), 'Eye-tracking technologies in mobile devices using edge computing : a systematic review', ACM Computing Surveys, vol 55, no 8 , pp 1 - 33.
- Kaur, R., Ginige, J. and Obst, O. (2023), 'AI-based ICD coding and classification approaches using discharge summaries : a systematic literature review', Expert Systems with Applications, vol 213, no Pt. B .
- Rangel, C., Noble, Y., Radd-Vagenas, S., Mavros, Y., Flood, V., O?Leary, F., Brodaty, H., Sachdev, P., Heffernan, M., Valenzuela, M., Anstey, K., Daniel, K., Ginige, J., San Jose, J., Chau, T., Rancurello, S. and Fiatarone Singh, M. (2022), 'Nutrition module design in Maintain Your Brain : an internet-based randomised controlled trial to prevent cognitive decline and dementia', British Journal of Nutrition, vol 127, no 8 , pp 1259 - 1268.
- Fang, K., Ginige, J., Basilakis, J., Bjering, H. and Javadi, B. (2022), 'Smart homecare research translation into broader practice : enablers, barriers and directions', IEEE Access, vol 10 , pp 134726 - 134743.
- Walton, C., Lampit, A., Boulamatsis, C., Hallock, H., Barr, P., Ginige, J., Brodaty, H., Chau, T., Heffernan, M., Sachdev, P., Fiatarone Singh, M. and Valenzuela, M. (2019), 'Design and development of the Brain Training System for the digital "Maintain Your Brain" dementia prevention trial', JMIR Aging, vol 2, no 1 .
- Heffernan, M., Andrews, G., Fiatarone Singh, M., Valenzuela, M., Anstey, K., Maeder, A., McNeil, J., Jorm, L., Lautenschlager, N., Sachdev, P., Ginige, J., Hobbs, M., Boulamatsis, C., Chau, T., Cobiac, L., Cox, K., Daniel, K., Flood, V., Guerrero, Y., Gunn, J., Jain, N., Kochan, N., Lampit, A., Mavros, Y., Meiklejohn, J., Noble, Y., O'Leary, F., Radd-Vagenas, S., Walton, C. and Brodaty, H. (2019), 'Maintain your brain : protocol of a 3-year randomized controlled trial of a personalized multi-modal digital health intervention to prevent cognitive decline among community dwelling 55 to 77 year olds', Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol 70 , pp 221 - 237.
- Tran, M., Ginige, J. and Boulamatsis, C. (2018), 'Evaluation of visualisation techniques for meaningful representation of clinical classification data sets', Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, vol 252 , pp 145 - 150.
- Kaur, R. and Ginige, J. (2018), 'Comparative evaluation of accuracy of selected machine learning classification techniques for diagnosis of cancer : a data mining approach', World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, vol 12, no 2 , pp 19 - 25.
- Smith, R., Ginige, J. and Boulamatsis, C. (2018), 'Representation of ICD-10-AM/ACHI using Classification Markup Language (ClaML)', Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, vol 252 , pp 126 - 131.
- Kaur, R. and Ginige, J. (2018), 'Comparative analysis of algorithmic approaches for auto-coding with ICD-10-AM and ACHI', Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, vol 252 , pp 73 - 79.
- Ginige, J. (2017), 'Health Information Managers and the future needs of e-health', HIM-Interchange, vol 7, no 1 , pp 8 - 13.
- Brodaty, H., Heffernan, M., Fiatarone Singh, M., Valenzuela, M., Andrews, G., Lautenschlager, N., Anstey, K., Maeder, A., Jorm, L., McNeil, J., Ginige, J., Chau, T. and Sachdev, P. (2017), 'Maintain your brain : a randomised controlled trial of an internet-based multi-component lifestyle intervention to prevent cognitive decline and dementia', Alzheimer's and Dementia, vol 13, no 7 , pp 1216 - 1216.
- Ginige, A., Liang, X., Marmaridis, I., Ginige, J. and De Silva, K. (2007), 'Smart Tools to Support Meta-Design Paradigm for Developing Web Based Business Applications', Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4607 , pp 521 - 525.
Conference Papers
- Fang, K., Trieu, Q., Bjering, H., Thomas, S., Basilakis, J. and Ginige, J. (2023), 'An analysis of IoMT Vvtal signs measurement devices for practical and secure remote clinical monitoring', BIOSTEC (Conference), Lisbon, Portugal.
- Gunawardena, N., Ginige, J., Javadi, B. and Lui, G. (2022), 'Performance analysis of CNN models for mobile device eye tracking with edge computing', International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Verona, Italy.
- Bjering, H. and Ginige, J. (2021), 'Targeted health information delivery framework : evaluation and feedback from potential client end-users', Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference, Dunedin, N.Z..
- Bjering, H. and Ginige, J. (2020), 'Targeted health information delivery framework : validation of staging engine and healthcare practitioners feedback', Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference, Melbourne, Vic..
- Shafruddin, H. and Ginige, J. (2020), 'An algorithmic approach to create bi-directional mapping files between ICD-10 and ICD-10-AM', Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference, Melbourne, Vic..
- Tu, S., Nyulas, C., Tudorache, T., Musen, M., Martinuzzi, A., Gool, C., Mea, V., Chute, C., Frattura, L., Hardiker, N., Napel, H., Madden, R., Almborg, A., Ginige, J., Sykes, C., Cekik, C. and Jakob, R. (2020), 'Toward a harmonized WHO family of international classifications content model', European Federation for Medical Informatics. Conference, Geneva, Switzerland.
- Pettigrew, J. and Ginige, J. (2020), 'Capstone project collaborations between inherently diverse disciplines : two comparative case studies', Capstone Design Conference, online.
- Bjering, H., Stratti, D. and Ginige, J. (2019), 'Design and implementation of a framework for a health information survey system', Australasian Conference on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management, Macquarie University, Sydney, N.S.W..
- Kaur, R. and Ginige, J. (2019), 'Analysing effectiveness of multi-label classification in clinical coding', Australasian Conference on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management, Macquarie University, Sydney, N.S.W..
- Knudson, D., Ginige, J. and Avazpour, I. (2019), 'Resources facilitating international capstone experiences', Australasian Computing Education Conference, Sydney, N.S.W..
- Rajvir Kaur, R. and Ginige, J. (2019), 'Voice-controlled clinical coding companion (VC4) for ICD-10-AM and ACHI code assignment', Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference, Melbourne, Vic..
- Kaur, R. and Ginige, J. (2019), 'Distributed knowledge-based computer-assisted clinical coding system', Health Information Management Association of Australia. Conference, Parramatta, N.S.W..
- Brodaty, H., Heffernan, M., Fiatarone Singh, M., Valenzuela, M., Andrews, G., Chau, T., San Jose, J., Sachdev, P., Anstey, K., Jorm, L., Lautenschlager, N., McNeil, J., Maeder, A. and Ginige, J. (2019), 'How many people aged 55-77 years are eligible for lifestyle interventions to prevent cognitive decline?', Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Los Angeles, California.
- Ginige, J., Lam, M., Butler-Henderson, K., Bennett, V., Tarabay, T., Lackey, G. and Sriraman, G. (2019), 'Incorporating research into your everyday role', Health Information Management Association of Australia. Conference, Parramatta, N.S.W..
- Knudson, D., Kalafatis, S., Kleiner, C., Zahos, S., Seegebarth, B., Detterfelt, J., Avazpour, I., Sandahl, K., Gorder, P., Ginige, J., Radermacher, A., Caballero, H., Gomez, H. and Roos, M. (2018), 'Global software engineering experience through international capstone project exchanges', International Conference on Global Software Engineering, Gothenburg, Sweden.
- Kaur, R. and Ginige, J. (2018), 'Will auto-coding be a reality anytime soon?', Health Information Management Association of Australia/National Centre for Classification in Health National Conference, Hobart, Tas..
- Irfan, M. and Ginige, J. (2018), 'Comparative study of medical reference and information mobile apps for healthcare professionals and students', Global Telehealth (Conference), Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- Ginige, J. (2018), 'Individual grading in groups : a Capstone Project practice', Capstone Design Conference, Rochester, N.Y..
- Prodan, A., Liyanage, L. and Ginige, J. (2017), 'Exploring cannulation process in chemotherapy through a computer simulation', International Conference on Computational Modeling and Simulation, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- Smith, R., Ginige, J., Tran, M., O'Donnell, A. and Boulamatsis, C. (2017), 'Mapping ICD-10-AM map to ICD-11 using flat-file maps', WHO/Family of International Classifications Network. Annual Meeting, Mexico City, Mexico.
- O'Donnell, A., Ginige, J., Smith, R., Tran, M. and Boulamatsis, C. (2017), 'API for ICD-10-AM/ACHI classification data access and 'on the fly' ICD-11 mapping', WHO/Family of International Classifications Network. Annual Meeting, Mexico City, Mexico.
- Tran, M., Ginige, J., O'Donnell, A., Smith, R. and Boulamatsis, C. (2017), 'ClaML for representation of ICD-10-AM and ACHI : the Australian experience', WHO/Family of International Classifications Network. Annual Meeting, Mexico City, Mexico.
- Poultney, N., Maeder, A. and Ginige, J. (2016), 'Health behaviour change through computer games : characterising interventions', Global Telehealth (Conference), Auckland, N.Z..
- Wesumperuma, A., Ginige, A., Ginige, J. and Hol, A. (2015), 'Green activity based reporting for organizational business process management', Asia-Pacific Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Technology, Korea.
- Ginige, J., Maeder, A. and Long, V. (2014), 'Evaluating success of mobile health projects in the developing world', Global Telehealth (Conference), Durban, South Africa.
- Wesumperuma, A., Ginige, A., Ginige, J. and Hol, A. (2013), 'Green activity based management (ABM) for organisations', Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Melbourne, Vic..
- Kolell, A. and Ginige, J. (2011), 'Workflow management issues in virtual enterprise networks', , .
- Wesumperuma, A., Ginige, J., Ginige, A. and Hol, A. (2011), 'A framework for multi-dimensional business process optimization for GHG emission mitigation', Proceedings of the Australiasian Conference on Information Systems ACIS 2011, Sydney, Australia.
- Kolell, A. and Ginige, J. (2010), 'Workflow management issues in virtual enterprise networks', 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Funchal, Portugal.
- Ginige, J. and Ginige, A. (2009), 'An Algorithm for Propagating-Impact Analysis of Process Evolutions', 3rd International United Information Systems Conference- UNISCON 2009, Sydney, Australia.
- Lan, Y. and Ginige, J. (2008), 'Towards criteria based allocation of capstone projects for an enhanced learning experience', 2008 International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, Wuhan, China.
- Sumanadasa, S. and Ginige, J. (2008), 'A framework to enhance email based business processes', 2008 Fourth International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAfS?08), Sri Lanka.
- Ginige, J. and Ginige, A. (2007), 'Challenges and Solutions in Process Automation in Tertiary Education Institutes: An Australian Case Study', 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2007), Melbourne, Australia.
- Ginige, J., Ginige, A. and Sirinivasan, U. (2007), 'CAD model of Process Elements: Towards Effective Management of Process Evolution in Web-based Workflows', 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2007), Melbourne, Australia.
- Ginige, J. and Ginige, A. (2007), 'Meta Model for Tracing Impact of Contextual Information Evolution in Web-based Workflows', 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2007), Funchal, Portugal.
- Ginige, J., Ginige, A. and Sirinivasan, U. (2007), 'KAT based CAD Model of Process Elements for Effective Management of Process Evolution', 2nd International Workshop on Technologies for Collaborative Business Management (TCoB 2007), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.
- Ginige, J., Srinivasan, U. and Ginige, A. (2006), 'A Mechanism for Efficient Management of Changes in BPEL based Business Processes: An Algebraic Methodology', IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering, Shanghai, China.
- Ginige, J., De Silva, K. and Ginige, A. (2005), 'Towards End User Development of Web Applications for SMEs: A Component Based Approach', 5th International Conference on Web Engineering, Sydney, Australia.
- Marmaridis, I., Ginige, J., Arunatileka, S. and Ginige, A. (2004), 'Architecture for Evolving and Maintainable Web Information Systems', IRMA International Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
- Marmaridis, I., Ginige, J. and Ginige, A. (2004), 'Web based architecture for Dynamic eCollaborative work', The 16th International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2004), Alberta, Canada.
- Ginige, J. and Lan, Y. (2003), 'Succeeding in digital business: Investigation of hurdles for e-transiting micro companies', ISOneWorld Conference, Las Vegas, USA.
- Deshpande, Y., Ginige, J. and Ginige, A. (2002), 'Web site auditing : first step towards re-engineering', International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Ischia, Italy.
Anupama's research focuses on applied computing in medical, healthcare and wellbeing domains. Her current projects include developing online tools to assessthe cognitive impairment of older adults, clinical classification mapping and episodes of care coding using AI/ML, and using sensor and image data in the clinical care space.
This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Ginige.
Current Projects
| Title: | Development, validation and implementation of a computerised tool to assess instrumental activities of daily living [via UNSW] |
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| Western Researchers: | Anupama Ginige |
| Years: | 2021-06-01 - 2025-05-31 |
| ID: | P00027123 |
Previous Projects
| Title: | AR-DRG Classification System Development and Refinement Services |
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| Western Researchers: | Anupama Ginige |
| Years: | 2013-07-01 - 2018-05-31 |
| ID: | P00024551 |
| Title: | AR-DRG - Classification System Development and Refinement Services |
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| Western Researchers: | Anupama Ginige |
| Years: | 2017-10-06 - 2019-08-30 |
| ID: | P00024571 |
| Title: | Investigating Process Modelling Mechanisms to Measure and Compute Carbon Emission of Organisational Processes |
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| Western Researchers: | Anupama Ginige |
| Years: | 2008-09-24 - 2011-03-23 |
| ID: | P00016344 |
| Title: | Chemotherapy Nursing Resources Utilisation Model |
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| Western Researchers: | Ante Prodan and Anupama Ginige |
| Years: | 2015-08-24 - 2016-05-27 |
| ID: | P00024382 |
| Title: | Maintain Your Brain [via UNSW] |
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| Western Researchers: | Anthony Maeder and Anupama Ginige |
| Years: | 2016-01-01 - 2022-08-31 |
| ID: | P00022770 |
| Title: | OATS Online - Risk Factors, early diagnosis, and effective interventions for neurocognitive disorders |
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| Western Researchers: | Anupama Ginige, Igor Chuprov and Chris Boulamatsis |
| Years: | 2019-06-03 - 2023-08-31 |
| ID: | P00025930 |
Supervision
Current Supervision
| Thesis Title: | Governance Policies, Frameworks and Regulations for the Certification of Mobile Health Applications as a Digital Therapeutic Product Around the World |
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| Thesis Title: | Mapping Clinical Classification Systems with Natural Language Processing & Machine Learning |
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| Thesis Title: | Impact of Undergraduate Nursing Students' Digital Literacy Post Implementation of a Nursing Informatics Unit |
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| Thesis Title: | Distributed Knowledge based Clinical Auto-Coding System |
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| Thesis Title: | Mobile Device Eye Tracking using Edge Computing to Capture Attention Hotspots on Dynamic Visual Contents |
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| Thesis Title: | Improving the Dietary Habits of the Elderly Using ICT |
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Previous Supervision
| Thesis Title: | A Comparative Analysis of Selected Set of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) Algorithms for Clinical Coding using Clinical Classification Standards |
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| Field of Research: | Information Systems, N.e.c. |
| Thesis Title: | Business Process Optimization Against a Set of Multi Dimensional Parameters Including Carbon Emissions |
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| Thesis Title: | A Digital Meta-solution to Support Lifestyle and Health Behaviour Changes |
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| Thesis Title: | Multi-Dimensional Business Process Optimisation for Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Management |
| Field of Research: | Information Systems; Other Engineering And Related Technologies; Artificial Intelligence; Environmental Studies, N.e.c. |
| Thesis Title: | A Comparative Analysis of Selected Set of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) Algorithms for Clinical Coding using Clinical Classification Standards |
| Field of Research: | Information Systems, N.e.c. |
| Thesis Title: | Comparative Analysis of Healthcare Messaging Standards for Interoperability of eHealth systems |
| Field of Research: | Information Systems, N.e.c. |
Media
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| Description: | DHCRC Researcher Profile |