Professor Peter Bath
BSc (Technical) (University of Wales), MSc (葫芦影业), PhD (葫芦影业)
Information School
Professor of Health Informatics
+44 114 222 2636
Full contact details
Information School
Room C225
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
葫芦影业
S10 2AH
- Profile
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I have been interested in information science and health informatics for 23 years.
My interest in these areas developed at the end of my first degree in Applied Biology, when I came to 葫芦影业 to study for my MSc in Information Studies in the then Department of Information Studies.
At the end of the MSc, I studied for my PhD in chemical structure handling under the supervision of Professor Peter Willett and Dr. Frank Allen (Cambridge). I was appointed Research Fellow (1994-1996), then Lecturer (1996-2000), in Information Science in the 葫芦影业 Institute for Studies on Ageing (SISA) at the University of 葫芦影业, which had been set up by Professor Ian Philp in 1994.
I re-joined the Department of Information Studies in 2000, when I was appointed Lecturer in Health Informatics to set up the new MSc in Health Informatics programme and became Head of the Health Informatics Research Group.
I was appointed Professor of Health Informatics in the Information School in 2013.
University responsibilities
- Chair, University Research Ethics Committee (UREC).
- Head of School (2016-2019).
- University Research Ethics Committee (UREC) - Faculty of Social Sciences representative (2007-2013).
- Member of University Research Governance Sub-Committee (2003-2004).
- Member of University of 葫芦影业 Working Group on monitoring arrangements for health care research projects. (2003-2004).
- Director, Centre for Health Information Management Research (CHIMR).
- Deputy Programme Coordinator for the Health Informatics programme.
- Module Coordinator:
- Data Analysis;
- Analysis of Health Information;
- Research Methods and Dissertation Preparation (Health Informatics);
- Dissertation (Health Informatics).
- Research interests
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My research interests are in Health Informatics and include the following areas:
- The use of e-Health resources by different consumer groups.
- Health information needs and information behaviours of patients, their families, carers and the general public.
- Evaluation of information systems within health care organisations.
- Applications of artificial intelligence and data mining techniques to analysing health information.
- Analysing health information in relation to the health and well-being of older people.
I am particularly interested in how patients, carers and health professionals seek, obtain and share information and advice in relation to their health and well-being through online digital resources, e.g., the Web, online discussion groups. I am developing an interest in how different groups develop trust and empathy online in life-threatening and traumatic conditions.
I have experience of researching the quality of online information resources that patients, carers and the public use in relation to their health.
I have undertaken collaborative research with a range of organisations, including NHS Direct, the World Health Organisation, Macmillan Cancer Support and have been involved in a wide range of inter-disciplinary funded projects, including with colleagues from computer science, geriatric medicine, nursing, palliative care, biomedical engineering, psychiatry, public health medicine, epidemiology, health economics, statistics.
I also coordinate the ISHIMR conference series. The most recent International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2013) took place in Halifax, NS, Canada in June 2013 and the 17th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2013) will take place in York in 2015.
I am interested in supervising PhDs in the following areas:
- Use of social media by patients, carers and family members
- Health information needs and information behaviours of patients, their families, carers and the general public.
- Understanding and evaluating the importance of e-Health systems to support patient care.
- Applications of statistical methods, and artificial intelligence and data mining techniques to analysing health data, particularly in relation to the health and well-being of older people
I am head of the Health Informatics Research Group
Research projects
Monitoring the transition to Open Access in the UK
Universities UK Investigator 拢10,800 2 January 2015 5 months Monitoring the transition to open access in the UK is a project sponsored by Universities UK analysing the various strands of evidence of the take-up of open-access publishing and dissemination by UK researchers. The project is investigating the availability of different open-access options, evidence of their take-up, usage of open-access materials, and the financial sustainability of open-access approaches. Partners in the project are the Research Information Network, University of 葫芦影业, Research Consulting and Elsevier.
A Shared Space and a Space for Sharing: A Transdisciplinary Exploration of Online Trust and Empathy
Economic and Social Research Council Principal Investigator 拢1,137,516 30 June 2014 30 months This two and a half year trans-disciplinary project is funded by the ESRC Emoticon (Empathy and Trust in Communicating Online) call. The project involves the Universities of Birmingham, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Kings College London and the University of Kent at Canterbury. The aim of the project is to develop a better understanding of how people in extreme circumstances (ranging from dangerous and addictive drug use, life-threatening illness, to suicidal ideation and natural disasters) share information, emotion and resources in online environments.
Systematic Review of the effects of telephone assessment on OOH care
NHS Direct Principal Investigator 拢4,111 1 September 2012 13 months A feasibility study of a holistic needs assessment questionnaire in a supportive and palliative care
MacMillan Cancer Support Investigator 拢141,265 1 January 2010 30 months Predictive models of Suicide, Self-Harm and Violence in Psychosis
葫芦影业 Health and Social Research Consortium Investigator 拢10,000 26 February 2007 12 months An intervention to help patients understand their symptoms of acute chest pain
The Health Foundation Investigator 拢60,627 1 November 2005 24 months Medical Records Review Methods
Department of Health Investigator 拢472,176 1 May 2004 33 months Use of graph-theoretical methods in computation chemistry for pattern identification
Medical Research Council Principal Investigator 拢49,392 1 May 2001 36 months
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- . Computers in Biology and Medicine.
- . BMJ Open, 12(5).
- . BMJ Quality and Safety.
- . Emergency Medicine Journal, 39(3), 250.1-250.
- . Emergency Medicine Journal.
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- . JMIR Medical Informatics, 9(4), 1-10.
- . Activities, Adaptation and Aging.
- . Information Sciences, 465, 118-129.
- . Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20(6).
- . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(9), 2248-2263.
- . Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19(5).
- . Aslib Journal of Information Management, 69(3), 261-277.
- . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67(7), 1751-1766.
- . Health Informatics J, 22(1), 21-33.
- . Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 29(4), 914-949.
- . Journal of Health Communication, 20(2), 220-229.
- . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 65(12), 2404-2421.
- . BMJ Quality & Safety, 22(12), 1032-1040.
- . Journal of Information Science, 39(1), 126-140.
- . Journal of Information Science, 39(1), 113-125.
- . Emergency Medicine Journal, 30(4), 303-307.
- . Age and Ageing, 42(1), 57-62.
- . Age and Ageing, 40(3), 335-340.
- . Journal of Documentation, 67(2), 238-263.
- . Methods of Information in Medicine, 50(5), 435-444.
- Objectively measured physical capability levels and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis.. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 341.
- . Health Technology Assessment, 14(10), 1-170.
- . Palliative Medicine, 24(1), 68-78.
- . Emergency Medicine Journal, 26(12), 857-860.
- . BMJ (Online), 338(7696).
- . Health Informatics Journal, 14(4), 323-334.
- . Journal of Information Science, 34(4), 501-518.
- . Aging and Mental Health, 12(4), 467-477.
All publications
- Journal articles
- Chapters
- Conference proceedings papers
- Reports
- Website content
- Posters
- Other
- Preprints
Journal articles
- . Environmental Health, 23.
- . African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 14(1), 51-57.
- . PLOS Digital Health, 2(9).
- . International Journal of Medical Informatics, 173, 105027-105027.
- . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(5).
- . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(23).
- . Computers in Biology and Medicine.
- . BMJ Open, 12(5).
- . BMJ Quality and Safety.
- . Emergency Medicine Journal, 39(3), 250.1-250.
- . Emergency Medicine Journal.
- . Health Services and Delivery Research, 9(21).
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- . JMIR Medical Informatics, 9(4), 1-10.
- . Health Informatics Journal, 27(1).
- . Addictive Behaviors, 98.
- . Breast Cancer Management.
- . IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
- . Health Information & Libraries Journal, 36(1), 60-72.
- . Information in Contemporary Society, 11420, 806-816.
- . Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 171(Suppl), 3-3.
- . International Journal of Computers and Applications, 1-14.
- . Activities, Adaptation and Aging.
- . Information Sciences, 465, 118-129.
- . Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 72(Supplement 1), A60-A60.
- . Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20(6).
- . Public Health Journal, 157, 50-52.
- . J Clin Nurs.
- . Hospital Practice, 46(1), 37-42.
- . International Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 4(2), 23-33.
- . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(9), 2248-2263.
- . Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19(5).
- . Aslib Journal of Information Management, 69(3), 261-277.
- . Health Informatics J.
- . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67(7), 1751-1766.
- . Health Informatics J, 22(1), 21-33.
- . Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 50(5), 587-598.
- . Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 29(4), 914-949.
- . Eur J Cancer Care (Engl), 24(2), 253-266.
- . Journal of Health Communication, 20(2), 220-229.
- . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 65(12), 2404-2421.
- Reaching health service managers with research. Information Research, 19(4).
- . Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 205, 1199.
- . HEALTHINF 2014 - 7th International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings; Part of 7th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2014, 511-516.
- . BMJ Quality & Safety, 22(12), 1032-1040.
- Variable documentation of vital signs in an electronic health record in patients at risk of in-hospital cardiac arrest could pose a threat to patient safety. European Journal fo Cardiovascular Nursing, 12, S55-S56.
- . Journal of Information Science, 39(1), 126-140.
- . Journal of Information Science, 39(1), 36-47.
- . Journal of Information Science, 39(1), 113-125.
- . Statistics in Medicine, 32(19), 3300-3313.
- CICERO: an emergent conceptual model for onco-EPR systems.. Stud Health Technol Inform, 192, 1131.
- . Health Information and Libraries Journal, 30(3), 191-200.
- . Emergency Medicine Journal, 30(4), 303-307.
- . European Psychiatry, 28(6), 344-348.
- . Age and Ageing, 42(1), 57-62.
- . Health Informatics Journal, 18(2), 135-146.
- . Health Informatics Journal, 18(2), 79-82.
- . Health Informatics Journal, 18(2), 124-134.
- . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2(Suppl 1), A46.1-A46.
- . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2(Suppl 1), A43.3-A44.
- . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2(Suppl 1), A46.2-A46.
- . Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, 12(1), 11-14.
- . Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 180, 1191-1193.
- . Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 180, 398-402.
- Exploring the Relationship between Quality of Life and Mortality in Old Age: A Comparative Study. Gerontologist, 51, 441-442.
- . Age and Ageing, 40(3), 335-340.
- . Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 2(2), 69-78.
- . Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives, 63(2-3), 256-274.
- . Journal of Documentation, 67(2), 238-263.
- . Methods of Information in Medicine, 50(5), 435-444.
- . Ageing and Society, 30(8), 1419-1437.
- Objectively measured physical capability levels and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis.. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 341.
- . Health Informatics Journal, 16(3), 161-163.
- . Health Informatics Journal, 16(3), 189-200.
- . Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 58(8), 1603-1604.
- . Quality and Safety in Health Care, 19(6).
- . Health Technology Assessment, 14(10), 1-170.
- . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 6277 LNAI(PART 2), 163-172.
- . Palliative Medicine, 24(1), 68-78.
- . Emergency Medicine Journal, 26(12), 857-860.
- Life satisfaction as a predictor of mortality hazard among elderly people in the United Kingdom and Taiwan.. Gerontologist, 49, 314-314.
- The Information Behaviour of Carers of People with Dementia: What Difference Does a Year Make?. Gerontologist, 49, 395-395.
- . Health Informatics Journal, 15(3), 167-178.
- . Health Informatics Journal, 15(3), 199-211.
- . Health Informatics Journal, 15(3), 163-165.
- . Nursing older people, 21(5).
- . British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 48(1), 31-45.
- . BMJ (Online), 338(7696).
- . International Journal of Health Geographics, 8(1).
- . Health Informatics Journal, 14(4), 243-245.
- . Health Informatics Journal, 14(4), 247-258.
- . Health Informatics Journal, 14(4), 323-334.
- . Journal of Information Science, 34(4), 501-518.
- . Aging and Mental Health, 12(4), 467-477.
- . Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 13(2), 85-91.
- Development of a patient-oriented tool for evaluating the quality of breast cancer information on the Internet. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 136, 297-302.
- . Safety Science, 45(4), 523-539.
- Welcome to ISHIMR 2007. Information Research, 12(3).
- Welcome to ISHIMR 2007. Information Research, 12(2).
- Assessing the quality of websites providing information on multiple sclerosis: evaluating tools and comparing sites.. Health Informatics J., 13, 207-221.
- . Journal of Documentation, 63(1), 9-32.
- . Health Informatics Journal, 12(1), 49-64.
- Mr. Smith has mesothelioma: The typical patient's experience. Journal of Palliative Care, 22(3), 230-230.
- . Health Information and Libraries Journal, 22 Suppl 2, 8-19.
- . Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 12(6), 630-641.
- Social isolation as a predictor of health outcomes in older people.. Gerontologist, 45, 515-515.
- Factors affecting changes in social engagement among community-dwelling older men and women. Gerontologist, 45, 565-565.
- Persisting differences in levels of self-rated health in older people in the Netherlands and the UK. Gerontologist, 45, 269-269.
- . Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 60(8), 1052-1058.
- . European Journal of Ageing, 2(1), 56-63.
- . European Journal of Ageing, 2(1), 24-30.
- Predictors of social engagement among community-dwelling older men and women. Gerontologist, 44, 415-416.
- Predictors of long-term physical and psychological health among community-dwelling older people. Gerontologist, 44, 141-141.
- Evaluation of a hospital avoidance scheme for older people with sub-acute illness. Gerontologist, 44, 189-189.
- Risk factors for fifteen-year mortality in older people using genetic algorithms and cox regression (CORGA). Gerontologist, 44, 272-272.
- . Health Informatics Journal, 10(3), 221-236.
- . Health Informatics Journal, 10(2), 121-126.
- . Health Informatics Journal, 10(1), 5-22.
- . Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 38.
- Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective. Information Research, 9(2).
- . Health and Social Care in the Community, 12(1), 1-24.
- Social activity as a determinant of health in later life. Gerontologist, 43, 577-578.
- . Gerontologist, 43(3), 387-395.
- The role of the information specialist in the systematic review process: a health information case study.. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 20(2), 65-74.
- . Gerontologist, 43(3), 369-371.
- . Health Informatics Journal, 9(1), 39-56.
- . Health Informatics Journal, 9(1), 17-31.
- . HEALTH INFORMATICS JOURNAL, 2003 Mar;, 5鈥15-5鈥15.
- . Progress in Palliative Care, 11(3), 136-138.
- . Journal of Information Science, 29(4), 279-297.
- . Health Informatics Journal, 8(4), 167-173.
- . Journal of Documentation, 58(3), 302-318.
- . Journal of Advanced Nursing, 36(2), 237-245.
- Geriatric assessment in primary care: formulating best practice.. British Journal of Community Nursing, 6(6), 290-295.
- Information-seeking behaviors of women with breast cancer.. Oncology nursing forum, 28(5), 899-907.
- . Cancer Nursing, 24(2), 104-111.
- . HEALTH INFORMATICS JOURNAL, 2001 Sep-D, 138鈥145-138鈥145.
- Exploring the information flow: partners of women with breast cancer, patients, and healthcare professionals.. Oncology nursing forum, 27(8), 1267-1275.
- . Journal of Advanced Nursing, 32(2), 366-374.
- Getting the questions right: An example of loss of validity during transfer of a brief screening approach for depression in the elderly. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(7), 650-655.
- . Journal of Documentation, 56(3), 235-249.
- . Journal of Advanced Nursing, 31(4), 833-841.
- . Cancer Nursing, 23(1), 71-79.
- . Health & Social Care in the Community, 8(1), 17-21.
- . Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 55(1).
- . Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 54(11).
- . Palliative Medicine, 13(6), 511-512.
- Sleep, longevity and mental health.. Zeitschrift f眉r Gerontologie und Geriatrie, 32(2), 155-155.
- SheffSCOPE: Using change management to introduce and evaluate health outcome measures in primary health care for older people.. Zeitschrift f眉r Gerontologie und Geriatrie, 32(2), 34-34.
- . European Journal of Epidemiology, 15(1), 65-73.
- . Journal of Advanced Nursing, 28(6), 1249-1258.
- . Age and Ageing, 27(SUPPL. 3), 29-34.
- . Age and Ageing, 27(SUPPL. 3), 35-40.
- . Age and Ageing, 27(suppl 2), 16-16.
- . Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 35(4), 714-716.
- . Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 35(2), 261-271.
- . Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 35(6), 1081.
- . Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 34(1), 141-147.
- . Journal of Chemometrics, 7(6), 543-550.
- Similarity searching in databases of three-dimensional molecules and macromolecules.. J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci., 32, 617-630.
- LMIC-PRIEST: Derivation and validation of a clinical severity score for acutely ill adults with suspected COVID-19 in a middle-income setting. PLoS ONE.
- External validation of triage tools for adults with suspected COVID-19 in a middle-income setting: an observational cohort study. Emergency Medicine Journal.
- Can all healthy adults use the current evidential breath alcohol analysers? An investigation using a large spirometry database. Medico-Legal Journal.
- . JMIR Cancer.
- . JMIR Diabetes.
- . Health Services and Delivery Research, 9(21), 148-149.
- . Sri Lanka Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics, 4(1), 14-14.
- . International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process, 2(2).
- . Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 3(3), 18-18.
- . Proceedings of the International Conference on Networked Learning, 3.
- . ChemInform, 24(12), no-no.
Chapters
- , Proceedings of Fifth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology (pp. 395-405). Springer Singapore
- , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 447-458). Springer International Publishing
- Chapter 4 Using Twitter as a Data Source: An Overview of Ethical, Legal, and Methodological Challenges In Iphofen R & Woodfield K (Ed.), Book Series: Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity
- , The Ethics of Online Research (pp. 79-107). Emerald Publishing Limited
- IT in Palliative Care, Palliative Care in Nursing Maidenhead: McGrawHill.
- , GIS and Evidence-Based Policy Making CRC Press
- , GIS and Evidence-Based Policy Making (pp. 183-200). CRC Press
- Pattern identification in public health data sets: The potential offered by graph theory, GIS and Evidence-Based Policy Making (pp. 159-176).
Conference proceedings papers
- . Emergency Medicine Journal, Vol. 39(12) (pp A976-A977)
- . Proceedings of the 18th international symposium on health information management research
- . MEDINFO 2019: Health and Wellbeing e-Networks for All, Vol. 264 (pp 1893-1894). Lyon, France, 25 August 2019 - 30 August 2019.
- . Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics 2019. Xiamen, China, 17 May 2019 - 19 May 2019.
- . Innovation in Aging, Vol. 2(suppl_1) (pp 480-481), 14 November 2018 - 18 November 2018.
- . 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), 17 September 2018 - 20 September 2018.
- . Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society
- Using Twitter for Insights into the 2009 Swine Flu and 2014 Ebola outbreaks. iConference 2018 Poster Descriptions, 25 March 2018 - 28 March 2018.
- . Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics (pp 165-172), 8 June 2018 - 10 June 2018.
- . Transforming Digital Worlds, Vol. 10766 (pp 126-131), 25 March 2018 - 28 March 2018.
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- . European Heart Journal, Vol. 38 (pp 113-114), 26 August 2017 - 30 August 2017.
- Topics Discussed on Twitter at the Beginning of the 2014 Ebola Epidemic in United States. Ideals
- Impact of health informatics implementation on clinical workflow: A review. Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science, Vol. 2 (pp 1352-1360)
- . 5th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security, IAS 2009, Vol. 2 (pp 757-760)
- It in the emergency department:What is the impact of technology?. HEALTHINF 2009 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Health Informatics (pp 454-457)
- The National Programme for IT (NPFIT) in England: How Can Clinicians be Encouraged to Use the Choose and Book Service. HEALTHINF 2009 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Health Informatics (pp 211-215)
- Use of graph theory for data mining in public health. Management Information Systems, Vol. 6 (pp 819-828)
- Knowledge discovery in the WHO health for all database: Developing a taxonomy of mortality patterns for European countries. Conference Proceedings of Current Perspectives in Healthcare Computing (pp 551-556)
- . Proceedings of the 18th international symposium on health information management research
- Feasibility of sensor-based technology for monitoring health in developing countries - cost analysis and user perception aspects
- The Ebola epidemic on Twitter: challenges for health informatics. The Seventeenth International Symposium for Health Information Management (pp 289-289). York, 24 June 2015 - 26 June 2015.
- Comparison of Twitter APIs and tools for analysing Tweets related to the Ebola Virus Disease. http://ifutures.group.shef.ac.uk/. 葫芦影业, 7 July 2015 - 7 July 2015.
Reports
Website content
Posters
- 鈥淎ccess denied鈥? Managing access to the World Wide Web within the National Health Service (NHS) in England: technology, risk, culture, policy and practice. ISHIMR, York, UK.
Other
Preprints
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- Feasibility of sensor-based technology for monitoring health in developing countries - cost analysis and user perception aspects, arXiv.
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- Research group
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Current PhD Students
Abdulaziz Almanea: The Role of Online Support Groups in Empowering People with Type 2 Diabetes in the United Kingdom
Adelina Basholli: Wireless monitoring systems for enhancing health services in developing regions.
Daisy Da Moura Semedo: Mining health information on the Social Web: towards an understanding of the influence of social media on public healthcare
Suzanne Duffin: A study of information needs and information sharing amongst people on the autism spectrum, using online support and discussion groups
Yuyang Liu: Machine learning and health informatics
Muntaha Nafisa: Evaluating health information systems Research Title : Evaluating the quality of the existing EHR Systems of Govt. Healthcare facilities of Bangladesh: Journey Towards National Shared Health Record
Emily Nunn: Open access and the non-academic reader: Investigating the potential impact outside the academic community of open access to medical and education research.
Sally Sanger: Alcohol online support groups: the role of discussion forums in constructing users' understanding of their condition/disease.
Liliana Sepulveda Garcia: Nonintrusive monitoring of the aging population in rural Mexico through mobile technologies.
Yuhua Wang: Developing a better understanding of the factors that influence digital inclusion for active and healthy ageing among older people.
Visiting PhD Students
Noora Hirvonen: Information Behavior in Stages of Exercise Behavior Change
Kalpana Chandrasekar: Comparison of Notifiable Disease Surveillance Systems in Sri Lanka and the UK. Completion date: November 2013
Paolo Melillo: Use of data mining methods to analyse data on health in older people Completion date: February 2012
Leandro Pecchia: Economy and Management of Healthcare Services and Organizations. Completion date: January 2009
Completed PhD Students
Jennifer Salter: Understanding health changes through the analysis of electricity consumption data.
Jean Stevenson-Agren: Documentation of vital signs in electronic health records: a patient safety issue.
Simon Read: Methods for the improved implementation of the spatial scan statistic when applied to binary labelled point data.
Rabiah Ahmad: Cox Proportional Hazard Regression and Genetic Algorithms (CoRGA) for Analysing Risk Factors for All-Cause Mortality in Community-Dwelling Older People.
Haleh Ayatollahi: Factors influencing attitudes towards the use of information technology in the emergency department.
Catherine Beverley: The Health and Social Care Information Needs and Behaviour of People with a Visual Impairment.
Louise Guillaume: The Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine scare: the information needs and information sources of parents.
Juliet Harland: Making Sense of Dementia.
Wen-Chin Hsu: Older people's use of the NHS Direct telephone advice and information service.
Chih-Ping Li: Quality of Life Among Older People in the UK and Taiwan.
Jacqueline Macdonald: The Information Sharing Behaviour of Health Service Managers: a three-part study.
Joel Minion: The Information World of Gay Men Living with HIV.
Robinah Namuleme: Information seeking in Ugandan universities.
Reza Rabiei: Perceptions of, and Satisfaction with, the NHS Choose and Book Service in England.
Theocharis Stavroulakis: The information needs and behaviours of women in relation to osteoporosis: Implications for health promotion.
Kyeung Mi Oh: Priorities for the development of older people' services in South Korea-lessons from the United Kingdom.
- Teaching interests
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My main areas of teaching are aligned with my research interests, particularly in relation to health information and health informatics. I also supervise post-graduate dissertations in these areas.
Teaching Projects
Problem-based learning in professional development: design, pilot and evaluation of a multimedia case study approach. University of 葫芦影业 Learning and Teaching Development group 拢23,930 2001 9 months I was part of a group that was awarded a substantial grant to develop a unique multimedia case study for use via WebCT, to enhance the student learning experience.
The case study involved problem-based learning, individual and group learning activities, use of online communication tools through WebCT. Evaluation of the case study demonstrated that is it had a very positive impact on the student learning experience.
The case study was used to provide an educational and technical exemplar of distributed and problem-based learning of value to other professional development programmes across the University.
I was involved in the project management, design and development of learning materials and learning tasks and the evaluation of the case study.
Research into the development and evaluation of the study resulted in an invitation to present at the Spotlight 2002 conference, presentations at three international conferences and two publications in Conference Proceedings.
- Teaching activities
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I am Deputy Programme Co-ordinator for the MSc Health Informatics programme, having previously been the Programme Co-ordinator from 2000-2004 and from 2008-2012. On this programme I co-ordinate and teach the Research Methods and Dissertation Preparation module, as well as the Dissertation module itself. I teach one of the elective modules, Analysis of Health Information, which introduces students to the use of statistics in analysing health data. I also teach a couple of lectures on other modules, Introduction to Health Informatics and The Internet, Web and E-health.
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Invited speaker at the 35th Wireless World Research Forum meeting in Copenhagen (October 2015). Title of talk: "eHealth and mHealth - future perspectives"
- Keynote speaker at the 4th International Conference on 鈥淲ell-being in the Information Society鈥 (WIS 2012), Turku, Finland, August 2012. Title of the key-note speech: 鈥淭he Information Society and an Ageing Society: how information can support health and well-being in later life鈥.
- Keynote speaker at the Health and Information Mastering workshop in Turku, Finland, June 2007. Title of talk: 鈥楬ealth Information Management: ethical issues and health information鈥.
- Invited speaker at the Healthcare Computing 2011 conference, the UK鈥檚 leading conference for IM&T managers in the National Health Service (April 2011). Title of talk: 鈥淭he interface between information, health and healthcare delivery鈥.
- Invited speaker on British Computer Society (The Chartered Institute for IT) video debate on Health Informatics.
- Invited speaker at the Pan-European Consensus Meeting on Stroke Management at Helsingborg, Sweden, November 1995. Title of the talk: 鈥淭he Use of Databases and Information Systems to support the care of stroke patients鈥.
- Guest Editor of special issues of the Health Informatics Journal to publish the best papers from the ISHIMR conferences (2008, 2009, 2010, 2012).
- Guest Editor of special issues of European Journal of Ageing (2005) and The Gerontologist (2003).
- Associate Editor, Health Informatics Journal. (2008-present). Member of Editorial Board, Health Informatics Journal. (2006-present).
- External Examiner for higher degrees by research at the following institutions: Napier University, UK (PhD, 2013); University of Malaya, Malaysia (PhD, 2013); Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand (PhD, 2012 and 2009); University of Nottingham, UK (PhD, 2012); University of Manchester, UK, (MPhil, 2011); Liverpool John Moores University, UK (PhD, 2011).
- Conference Coordinator of the International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR) series of conferences. Since taking over the co-ordination of the conferences in 2005, I have been responsible for collaborating with overseas institutions to host the conference in Canada (2013) Switzerland (2011), Sweden (2009), New Zealand (2008), UK (2007), Canada (2006) and Greece (2005).
- External Advisor on Personal Chair promotion panels: University of South Florida, Florida, USA; Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore; Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China.
- Advisor to the World Health Organisation (Regional Office for Europe) (1995).