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Interoperability
HL7 FHIR, SNOMED CT, OpenHIE, system integration and semantic interoperability.
Digital Health • Medicine • Academia
Dr. Susith Athukorala
MBBS, MSc, MD, FAIDH, CHIA
Connecting Healthcare, Information Technology and Intelligence to Improve Healthcare Delivery through Interoperable Systems, Digital Transformation, Empowerment, Research and Education.
Medical DoctorHealth InformaticanLecturerResearcher
About
Clinical Experience with a Digital Health Focus
I am a medical doctor and health informatician with specialist postgraduate training in biomedical informatics and health informatics. I am a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (FAIDH) and a Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA). My work spans clinical care, healthcare information systems, interoperability, digital health strategy, academic teaching and research.
I have contributed to public-sector healthcare, cancer care, telemedicine, health information management and postgraduate education, with a strong interest in making digital systems clinically meaningful, safe and practical for real-world use.
Expertise
Areas of Professional Focus
A multidisciplinary profile spanning clinical medicine, health informatics, system design, data standards and digital transformation.
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Digital Health Systems
Clinical information systems, DHIS2, CRVS, telehealth and digital workflows.
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Clinical Informatics
Bridging clinical care with data, information architecture and health technology.
AI
AI in Healthcare
Responsible use of artificial intelligence, decision support and human-centred digital tools.
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Research & Analytics
Digital health evaluation, scoping reviews, implementation science and applied research.
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Education
Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in health informatics, digital health and health sciences.
Experience
Professional Journey
Commonwealth Digital Health Fellow
Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre, Adelaide University, Australia
Consultant in Health Informatics
National Cancer Institute – Apeksha Hospital, Sri Lanka
MD Health Informatics Scholar
Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Medical Officer – Health Informatics
Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka
Clinical Medical Practice / General Practitioner
General medicine, surgery, paediatrics, radiology and transfusion medicine
Research
Current and Recent Work
Research interests include implementation of digital health systems, remote monitoring, AI-enabled care, digital literacy and healthcare interoperability.
Remote Patient Monitoring in Hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes
Scoping review examining clinical efficacy and patient adherence hurdles in RPM frameworks.
View publication →Digital health education for food literacy
Develop content creation guidelines for promoting healthy food choices among youth in Sri Lanka
View publication →Continuous Glucose Monitoring in LMICs
Implementation and adherence barriers affecting CGM use among people with type 2 diabetes in low- and middle-income countries.
Digital Health Adoption & AI Trust
Empirical study of digital health adoption, eHealth literacy and trust in AI among Generation Z university students.
Human–AI Collaboration in Hospital Operations
Exploring workflow digitalisation and trusted human–AI collaboration for healthcare operations.
Projects
Digital Health Projects
Selected work in clinical informatics, interoperability, decision support and standards-based digital health.
Clinical Informatics
Test Version
PreHaRM Clinical Surveillance Dashboard
A clinical surveillance and decision-support platform exploring how patient data can be transformed into meaningful clinical information for early recognition, monitoring and healthcare decision-making.
View Testing Version →
CLINICAL AI & DECISION SUPPORT
Live Tool (Testing)
Hierarchical Skin Cancer Screening Model
A 3-tier cascaded deep learning and triage engine featuring an adaptive morphological saliency gate, histogenetic lineage decoupling, and an asymmetric decision matrix for safety-calibrated skin lesion screening.
View Model →
Interoperability
FHIR R4
Skin Screening FHIR Implementation Guide
A standards-based HL7 FHIR implementation guide for structured exchange of skin cancer risk profiles, lesion-level examination findings and teledermatology clinical workflows.
View Implementation Guide →Teaching & Speaking
Academic Work across Health Sciences and Digital Health
Teaching and presenting across Sri Lanka, Australia, Nepal and international university partnerships.
Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM)University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Department of Health InformaticsKathmandu University, Nepal
IIHS Multiversity, Sri LankaDigital health and health administration teaching
Nawaloka College of Higher Studies, Sri LankaSwinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia - Pathway Program Lecturer
Conference & Webinar SpeakingAI, Digital Health, Telemedicine and Connected Care
Contact
Professional Enquiries and Collaboration
For academic, research, digital health, teaching or professional collaboration enquiries.