Research and Insights

Led by the RMIT-Cisco Health Transformation Lab, the National Industry Innovation Network (NIIN) Health Alliance will combine the best minds, technologists, industry capabilities and academic resources to solve pressing industry and social challenges through technology-driven innovation. 

RMIT-Cisco’s Health Transformation Lab launches report: ‘Transforming aged care – towards a future in which digitisation drives respect and connection’.

Melbourne-based poet and essayist Andy Jackson has been awarded the Health Transformation Lab’s inaugural ‘Writing the Future of Health’ Fellowship.

RMIT’s Health Transformation Lab and College of Vocational Education are piloting a program to rapidly upskill front-line staff, broader health workforce and IT professionals in the healthcare sector to meet the industry’s emerging skills needs.

With the support of City of Melbourne, RMIT University Health Transformation Lab and RMIT Culture, RMIT Future Play Lab explored the future of Cardigan Street as central to the City North Social Innovation Precinct and its role in RMIT as a playable campus. The width of the street and proximity to student communities engaged with industries of creativity, care, and construction places it as a hub connecting Queen Victoria Market, Carlton and surrounds with the forthcoming State Library Station.

RMIT’s Innovation Catalyst in collaboration with Health Transformation Lab used machine learning techniques to examine 114,739 articles on financial wellbeing (including personal and family finance) published since 1990.

Witness how robots make their own artworks and their behaviours and creative capacity seemingly echo our own.

Catherine Bell and Cathy Staughton, aka The Two Cathies, have worked together on projects since The Portrait Exchange (2009), their first collaborative venture for Arts Project Australia.

Spot, RMIT Health Transformation Lab’s robot dog, played a lead role in the development of an artwork by Agnieszka Pilat at the NGV Triennial opening December 2023.

OpenLab: Digital Futures

Highlights from the ‘Transforming Aged Care’ report launch and technology showcase at the RMIT-Cisco Sandbox that took place on 28th…

Download our report which explores a future in which digitization clasps hands with respect, and connection drives improvement.

Brad and Vishaal critique a model in which the success of lockdown is baked into the model’s parameters.

Rachel Wells interviews astronauts & adventurers on their experiences resuming to normal life following long periods of isolation.

John Elder of The New Daily interviewed Professor Vishaal Kishore of the Health Transformation Lab to talk about the current…