Healthcare computing at the University of Portsmouth Dr Jim Briggs Last updated: May 2011

Group members Permanent academic staff: –Jim Briggs –Tineke Fitch –Penny Ross –Philip Scott –Carl Adams * –Mohammed Gaber * Permanent research staff –Richard Curry (pt) Fixed-term staff –Christian Chislett –Deb Prytherch (pt) Visiting Professor –Dave Prytherch Administrative staff –Angela Muscat Research students –Adesina Iluyemi –Tessy Badriyah Close collaboration with ECE –Djamel Azzi –Rinat Khusainov –David Robinson –Misha Filip –Sebastian Bersch 2

Main areas of interest Telemedicine/telecare/telehealth/e-health Clinical outcome modelling Health informatics in developing countries Socio-technical aspects of health informatics 3

TELEMEDICINE/TELECARE Jim, Dick, Tineke, Penny, Deb. Christian and many others 4

Telemedicine and e-health Information Service (TEIS) Started in 1998 as National Database of Telemedicine Was funded by: –Department of Health –British Library –NHS Information Authority –Not funded since March 2004 Currently stores data on: –305 projects; 992 organisations; 747 people 5

Telecare Knowledge Network (TKN) Since 2006 Collaborative with SEHTA Funded by SEEDA Workshops ICE-T 6

Telecare in Portsmouth Penny Ross (RA now SL) Funded by Portsmouth City Council Evaluation of the implementation of telecare in Portsmouth 7

The Living Lab Monitoring people in their homes An integrated service platform for the home –Collaborative project –PassivSystems Ltd (Newbury) Collaboration with Electronics –Digital Wellbeing / The Living Lab 8

Workplace telecare showcase Funded by SEHTA (ICE-T programme) Demonstrating how telecare can help employers –reduce absenteeism Showcase in Second Life virtual world (coming soon!) 9

MODELLING CLINICAL OUTCOMES Dave, Jim, Tessy and others in the past 10

Models of clinical risk Can useful predictive information be gleaned from already existing data? Risk models of clinical outcome –P-POSSUM –BHOM extends modelling beyond surgery based on routine clinical practice 11

Collaborations The Learning Clinic / Tigerteam Software –KTP –VitalPAC Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust –Prof Gary Smith –Dr Paul Schmidt 12

Future work Developing new models –more sophisticated models –condition-specific –environmental factors Developing better models 13

OTHER AREAS 14

HI in developing countries Adesina Iluyemi (RS) –Jointly supervised by Jim and Carl How can mobile technologies be best used to provide healthcare services in African countries? 15

Socio-technical aspects of HI Philip Scott –Was RS; now SL Exploring clinician use of information systems –What is there about clinicians that influences their propensity to use them? Clinical ordering Theory of health informatics Mixed methods research 16

Southern Institute for Health Informatics (SIHI) conferences 11 conferences since July 1998 Last one in September 2010 –"Digital wellbeing" Next one in September

Other past activities Cancer care data (Penny) Standardising radiography images (Jason Oakley) ICT research initiative (Dick) ISABEL evaluation (Jim & Tineke) Smart cards (Jim & Roger Beresford) Mobile healthcare (Tineke & Carl) VitalPAC security review (Jim, Vasilios Katos & Azzri Bhaludin) Internet study (Jim & Gordon Early) Health informatics MSc courses 18