BCS Health Informatics Scotland (HIS) 2015 - Index

Abstract

The BCS HIS conference has become the largest eHealth / Health Informatics conference in Scotland thanks to the dedication and efforts of Dr. Paul Woolman who was conference Chair for 6 years, from 2008 to 2014. In 2015, Dr Bouamrane - previously the Academic Research track Chair - took over from Paul as conference Chair.

A key feature of our conference is that we have an excellent mix of speakers from Government, the NHS, industry exhibitors and academics from all the main universities of Scotland. Having successfully introduced an academic research track in 2012, the 2015 conference saw a number of new initiatives, including the introduction of an ‘Industry & Implementation’ track, where industry exhibitors can present their technology solutions 'in context' through selected implementation case studies. We have now also introduced within the conference program Special Interest Group (SIG) seminars, the first of which was an 'eHealth in Perioperative Medicine Symposium' organised with the support of the Society for Computing and Technology in Anesthesia (SCATA). This symposium was also CPD accredited by the Royal College of Anaesthetists.

The BCS Health Informatics Scotland (HIS) took place on 7th & 8th of October 2015 in Edinburgh's Surgeons' Hall.

The conference themes for 2015 were: mHealth & Inequalities, eHealth for an Ageing Population, Patient Portals and Personal Health Records.

We had an excellent selection of speakers presenting on these themes, including:

• Shona Robison, MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing & Sport

• John Matheson, Director Health Finance, eHealth and Analytics, The Scottish Government

• Professor Mahmood Adil, Medical Director, Public Health & Intelligence, NHS National Services Scotland

• Eddie Turnbull, Head of eHealth, The Scottish Government

• Dr Margaret Whoriskey, Director, Joint Improvement Team

• Moira McKenzie, Head of Telecare Development at Scottish Centre for Telehealth & Telecare / NHS24

• Jane Ankori, Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland

• Theresa Fyffe, Director of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Scotland

• Professor Frances Mair, University of Glasgow

• Dr Trevor Lakey, Health Improvement and Inequalities Manager at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

• Professor Alison Strath, Scottish Government Principal Pharmaceutical Officer, Robert Gordon University

• Professor Aziz Sheikh, Chair of the eHealth Strategy Group at the University of Edinburgh.

Information on BCS Health Scotland is available on http://www.scotshi.bcs.org.uk/

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BCS Health Informatics Scotland Conference Committee

Dr Matt-Mouley Bouamrane (Conference Chair), Lecturer in eHealth, Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde

Paul Woolman, Information Services Manager at NHS Forth Valley

Jackie Caldwell, NHS National Services Scotland

Gillian Flett, Information & eLearning Manager at NHS Education for Scotland

Sharon Levy, Lecturer in Distance Education, University of Edinburgh

Angus McCann, Healthcare Industry Consultant, at IBM (EMEA)

Lachlan MacPherson, NHS Western Isles

Margaret Moore, University of Surrey

Andrew Turner, Head of Information Assurance and Security NHS Dumfries & Galloway

Janice Watson, NHS National Services Scotland

Mario Kolberg, Senior Lecturer, Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling

Marilyn Mcgee-Lennon, Senior Lecturer HCI, Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde

Mark McGilchrist, Senior Research Fellow, Health Informatics Centre, University of Dundee

Alasdair Mort, Research Fellow, Centre for Rural Health, University of Aberdeen

Maria Wolters, Research Fellow, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Papers:

Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Akintunde Adeyemo, Marilyn Lennon & Stefan Schraag Patient Preoperative Web Portal for Remote, Self-completed Assessment & Triage: a Feasibility Study http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HIS2015.1

Adrian Smales, William Buchanan, Brian Brown, Alistair Lawson & Peter Knight Analytics for Improving Patient Outcome by Utilising Comprehensive IoRN Assessment Scoring Metrics http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HIS2015.2

Short & Position Papers

Grzegorz Spyra, William J Buchanan & Elias Ekonomou Sticky-Policy enabled authenticated OOXML for Health Care http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HIS2015.3

Extended Abstracts & Work-in-Progress Papers

Carolyn Deighan, Claudia Pagliari, Lucie Michalova, Jenny Elliott, Frieda Brookmann & Louise Taylor Digital Heart Manual: making technology accessible with a user-friendly resource http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HIS2015.4

Charalampos Kyfonidis & Marilyn Lennon Digital Educational Game for Children with Type-1 Diabetes http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HIS2015.5

Hadi Daneshvar & Stuart Anderson Can Existing Social Media Encourage Health and Care Co-production? http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HIS2015.6

Ather Akhlaq, Brian McKinstry & Aziz Sheikh Health Information Exchange and its Barriers and Facilitators in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Key Healthcare Stakeholders' Perceptions from Pakistan http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HIS2015.7