Fulbright Scholar Dr. Dustin Ballard toured Eastern Australia in April, visiting leading international medical researchers in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne.  Dr. Ballard met with Dr. Westbrook of the Australian Institute of Health Innovation and spoke at Children’s Health Research Center and Royal Children’s Hospital on the topic of using the electronic health record to achieve knowledge translation via clinical decision support.

These visit led to extensive cross-pollination of ideas, best practices, and future collaborations – particularly in the realm of post-concussion care for pediatric patients and with implementing test cases for electronic clinical decision support in Australasia.