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By Henry W W Potts, on 20 February 2009
Amy McKeown, who completed the MSc in Health Informatics in 2008, features on the latest UCL podcast. She talks about her award-winning dissertation project on computerised cognitive behavioural therapy, which I supervised. Amy has her own company, Xanthis, who are commercially developing this work.
Dr Henry Potts
By Henry W W Potts, on 28 November 2008
Our burgeoning PhD student group at CHIME have published a couple of recent papers. Nathan Lea (with S Hailes, T Austin & D Kalra) has published “Knowledge management for the protection of information in electronic medical records” in Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2008; 136: 685-90 and available here. Meanwhile, Chris Martin (with P Taylor & I) has published “Construction of an odds model of coronary heart disease using published information: the Cardiovascular Health Improvement Model (CHIMe)” in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2008; 8: 49, available here. The latter is currently the second most accessed paper of the last 30 days in the journal. Congratulations to both of them!
Dr Henry Potts
By Henry W W Potts, on 1 August 2008
Post-graduate students at UCL generally undertake pieces of original research, and the best of these can get published. This week we’re celebrating three students who have achieved just that.
Judith Green (née Stott) and Toby Cave were both on the MSc in Health Informatics. Judith’s study on patient experiences of Choose & Book revealed surprising failings and has now been published in BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making. Toby’s work on success or failure in hospital IT projects has been published by the British Computer Society.
Charlotte Curran was on UCL’s Doctorate in Clinical Psychology course, but was working with CHIME’s Dr Henry Potts: her study on the importance of adherence in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for persistent pain has been published in the European Journal of Pain.
By Henry W W Potts, on 27 June 2008
Reuters are reporting a survey showing very slow progress by US doctors in moving to electronic healthcare records, with a mere 4% having adopted “fully functional” systems. (What is unclear to me is who did the original survey.) The decentralised nature of US healthcare offers a very different environment for EHCR developments to the story in the UK with Connecting for Health.
By Henry W W Potts, on 13 June 2008
Published in 2003 in IEEE Transactions in Medical Imaging, “Estimating average growth trajectories in shape-space using kernel smoothing” was a paper by Tim Hutton, Bernard Buxton, Peter Hammond and CHIME’s Henry Potts. The paper uses the statistical technique of kernel smoothing to describe how face shapes, derived from 3D surface scans, change as children age. Five years later, the paper has reached a milestone of being cited 25 times across both the medical and computing literature.
