Healthcare computing at the University of Portsmouth

Dr Jim Briggshttp://www.chmi.port.ac.uk/

Last updated: 22nd May 2013

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Mission

• The organisations that form the National Health Service plus the ones that provide social care form a multi-billion pound business sector that impacts on the lives of every single person in the UK. Consequently, any developments in technology that can make the work of these organisations more efficient are to be encouraged.

• Our broad aim is to bring our information systems and computer science expertise to bear to make easier some of the day-to-day jobs involved in healthcare delivery and administration. To achieve this we:– establish and maintain links with healthcare and social care professionals to keep

abreast of their problems and needs;

– conduct research to investigate new solutions to relevant problems;

– provide consultancy services to organisations and individuals in the health and social care sector that wish to adopt information, communication and sensing technologies.

Main areas of interest

• Computing– Telemedicine/telecare/telehealth/e-health/digital

wellbeing– Clinical outcome modelling– Standards for information interchange– Socio-technical aspects of health informatics

• Engineering– Telecare technology/digital wellbeing

• Creative Technologies– Applications of CT to healthcare

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Southern Institute for Health Informatics (SIHI) conferences• 13 conferences since July 1998• Last one on 5th September 2012• Next one on 11th September 2013

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Accomplishments• Establishing track record

nationally• Getting known

internationally• Approaching critical mass• Surviving review of

research centres• Broadening areas within HI• Publishing a significant

number of papers

Challenges

• Keeping grant income rolling in

• Sustaining critical mass

• Deepening areas• Are we publishing

"significant" papers?• Getting more involved

in our "communities"5

Strategic development plan

• Named 26 people: 18 SoC, 5 SoE, 3 SCT• 5-year income: £700k• PhD students: 6 completed; 3 expected; 3

progressing• At least 21 collaborations• At least 86 publications

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http://www.chmi.port.ac.uk/