Macquarie University's Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI) and a consortium of partner organisations have been awarded $2.5 million by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to set up a Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) in Digital Healthcare, which will undertake a number of programs including developing an automated IT critical incident database.

The CRE will be led by renowned health informatician Enrico Coiera, director of the Centre for Health Informatics at AIHI, and it brings together for the first time all the major Australian academic centres of health informatics research, including Bond University, the University of South Australia, the CSIRO Australian e-Health Research Centre, and the universities of Sydney, Melbourne and New South Wales.

It has also received the support of the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) and the Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI), which will both work with the centre on a number of programs.