Heidi Bjering is a lecturer in School of Computer, Data, and Mathematical Sciences at Western Sydney University (WSU), where she is part of the team developing and delivering the health informatics program. She is currently the Vice Chair of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health’s NSW’s executive committee. Heidi’s interest in health informatics developed during her research Masters degree which dealt with temporal aspects of health data. She has also been involved with terminology and data representation issues in Traditional Chinese Medicine. In her PhD research she is investigating how IT can be used to support good health in the elderly.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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..
• 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..
• Fang, K. Y., & Bjering, H. (2019). Development of an interactive Messenger chatbot for medication and health supplement reminders. In 36th National Conference Health Information Management: Celebrating 70 years of Strength in Diversity (Vol. 70, p. 51).
• Fang, K., Bjering, H. and Ginige, A. (2018), ‘Adherence, avatars and where to from here’, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, vol 252 , pp 45 – 50.
• Fang, K., Bjering, H. and Maeder, A. (2016), ‘An avatar-based reminder application for medication adherence’, International Conference on Computer Games, Multimedia and Allied Technologies, Singapore.
• Fang, K., Maeder, A. and Bjering, H. (2016), ‘Current trends in electronic medication reminders for self care’, Global Telehealth Conference, Auckland, N.Z..
• Bjering, H., Curry, J. and Maeder, A. (2014), ‘Gerontechnology : the importance of user participation in ICT development for older adults’, Australian National Health Informatics Conference, Melbourne, Vic.
• Bjering, H., Ginige, A., Maeder, A., Bensoussan, A., Zhu, X. and Lattuca, C. (2011), ‘Electronic medical record information system for patient consultations in Chinese medicine’, Health Informatics: The Transformative Power of Innovation: Selected Papers from the 19th Australian National Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2011).
• Bjering, H. and Mcgregor, C. (2010), ‘A Multidimensional Temporal Abstractive Data Mining Framework’, The 4th Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management (HIKM 2010), Brisbane, Australia.
• Catley, C., Stratti, H. and Mcgregor, C. (2008), ‘Multi-Dimensional Temporal Abstraction and Data Mining of Medical Time Series Data: Trends and Challenges’, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008, Canada.