David Dinh

Current

• Co-Founder and Operations Manager at osTechnology

Education

• University of Technology, Sydney
• Macquarie University

Connections

16 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• osTechnology website

David Dinh’s Summary

2008 Australian Health Informatics Award recipient, 2008 Young Innovator Award Finalist, research and development and implementation of medical IT systems and solutions for the advancement of technology in health care. Some past work:

•“The information technology capabilities of Australian emergency departments: A nationwide survey”,ICEM 2006, Canada. Details: First national survey of IT capabilities of Australian Emergency departments investigating IM&ICT capabilities.

•“Electronic interface for emergency department management of asthma: A randomized control trial of clinician performance”, Emergency Medicine Australasia. Volume 20 Issue 1 2008. Details: Creation of a dynamic interoperable clinical platform which enabled streamlining and consolidation of ED documentation and facilitated the use of clinical pathways. This was coupled with real time quality control features that allowed the monitoring of trends and variations in clinical practice.

•Kwok R, Dinh D, Taylor B, Chu M, Dinh M. “An electronic decision support system for asthma management in emergency departments: a sustainable alternative for evidence-based guideline implementation”, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Volume 51, 2008, International Conference on Emergency Medicine, San Francisco.
Details: Full clinical trials of the decision support system ACAFE. Of the eight outcomes measured, ACAFE achieved significant improvement in five of them. The most impressive were in the documentation of previous ICU admissions, which jumped from 14% to 90%, severity grading which leapt from 18% to 98%, for asthma action plan, where the proportion of patients who left ED with a plan jumped from 16% to 76%.

David Dinh’s Specialties:

medical systems software engineering, medical systems workflow optimisation, emergency and trauma system management and development, medical system architecture and infrastructure analysis, decision support algorithm and system implementation.

David Dinh’s Experience

• Co-Founder and Operations Manager

  osTechnology

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2004 — Present (4 years 5 months)

  Co-founded osTechnology specializing in research and development of new decision support systems for the medical domain. Daily tasks include operations management, product development, collaborative research and development with Medical Systems Development Group team comprising three of the leading emergency hospital training facilities in Sydney.
  
  CONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS
  •Chan D, Dinh D, Chen J. “A Multilingual Decision Support Prototype for the Medical Domain”, 2006 Presented at HLT-NAACL, June 8-12, New York.
  
  •Dinh M, Taylor B, Chu M, Dinh D.“ The Asthma Clinical Assessment Form And Electronic Decision Support (ACAFE) Project Collaborative Innovation And Development”, Presentation 435, MEDINFO 2007, 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics – Building Sustainable Health Systems, Aug 15-23, Australia.

David Dinh’s Education

• University of Technology, Sydney

  Bachelor, Law, 2002 — 2005

• Macquarie University

  Bachelor, Applied Finance, 1998 — 2002

  International Economics major

Additional Information

David Dinh’s Websites:

• osTechnology website

David Dinh’s Groups:

Medical Systems Development Group http://www.msdrg.org

•    Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup
•    Medical Banking

David Dinh’s Honors:

Received 2008 Australian Health Informatics Award (Don Walker). Awarded for exceptional contribution to improving health outcomes through technology innovation. Australian Health Informatics Award sponsored by Intel.

Finalist Australian Young Innovators 2008
Discovering Australia’s leading entrepreneurial minds under the age of 30 organised by Anthill Magazine. Recognition for research and development of innovative clinical decision support systems that can be applied in urban and remote hospital environments.

Coles Myer Scholarship 2001- Australian selective work and merit scholarship for outstanding career development, work performance and study. Scholarship provided stipend towards completion of university degree. In 2001, Coles Myer Group Limited was Australia's largest retailer with more than 2,900 stores throughout Australia and New Zealand.

David Dinh’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

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