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Examination of an eHealth literacy scale and a health literacy scale in a population with moderate to high cardiovascular risk: Rasch analyses (2017)
Journal Article
Richtering, S. S., Morris, R., Soh, S.-E., Barker, A., Bampi, F., Neubeck, L., Coorey, G., Mulley, J., Chalmers, J., Usherwood, T., Peiris, D., Chow, C. K., & Redfern, J. (2017). Examination of an eHealth literacy scale and a health literacy scale in a population with moderate to high cardiovascular risk: Rasch analyses. PLOS ONE, 12(4), Article e0175372. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175372

Introduction
Electronic health (eHealth) strategies are evolving making it important to have valid scales to assess eHealth and health literacy. Item response theory methods, such as the Rasch measurement model, are increasingly used for the psychom... Read More about Examination of an eHealth literacy scale and a health literacy scale in a population with moderate to high cardiovascular risk: Rasch analyses.

Home monitoring of breathing rate in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: observational study of feasibility, acceptability, and change after exacerbation (2017)
Journal Article
Rubio, N., Parker, R. A., Drost, E. M., Pinnock, H., Weir, C. J., Hanley, J., Mantoani, L. C., MacNee, W., McKinstry, B., & Rabinovich, R. A. (2017). Home monitoring of breathing rate in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: observational study of feasibility, acceptability, and change after exacerbation. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 12, 1221-1231. https://doi.org/10.2147/copd.s120706

Abstract: Telehealth programs to promote early identification and timely self-management of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (AECOPDs) have yielded disappointing results, in part, because parameters monitored (symptoms, p... Read More about Home monitoring of breathing rate in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: observational study of feasibility, acceptability, and change after exacerbation.

Readiness for Delivering Digital Health at Scale: Lessons From a Longitudinal Qualitative Evaluation of a National Digital Health Innovation Program in the United Kingdom (2017)
Journal Article
Lennon, M. R., Bouamrane, M.-M., Devlin, A. M., O'Connor, S., O'Donnell, C., Chetty, U., Agbakoba, R., Bikker, A., Grieve, E., Finch, T., Watson, N., Wyke, S., & Mair, F. S. (2017). Readiness for Delivering Digital Health at Scale: Lessons From a Longitudinal Qualitative Evaluation of a National Digital Health Innovation Program in the United Kingdom. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19(2), Article e42. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.6900

Background: Digital health has the potential to support care delivery for chronic illness. Despite positive evidence from localized implementations, new technologies have proven slow to become accepted, integrated, and routinized at scale.

Objecti... Read More about Readiness for Delivering Digital Health at Scale: Lessons From a Longitudinal Qualitative Evaluation of a National Digital Health Innovation Program in the United Kingdom.

eHealth Literacy: Predictors in a Population With Moderate-to-High Cardiovascular Risk (2017)
Journal Article
Richtering, S. S., Hyun, K., Neubeck, L., Coorey, G., Chalmers, J., Usherwood, T., Peiris, D., Chow, C. K., & Redfern, J. (2017). eHealth Literacy: Predictors in a Population With Moderate-to-High Cardiovascular Risk. JMIR Human Factors, 4(1), e4. https://doi.org/10.2196/humanfactors.6217

Background: Electronic health (eHealth) literacy is a growing area of research parallel to the ongoing development of eHealth interventions. There is, however, little and conflicting information regarding the factors that influence eHealth literacy,... Read More about eHealth Literacy: Predictors in a Population With Moderate-to-High Cardiovascular Risk.

What stops patients from taking their medicines. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dawkes, S. (2017, January). What stops patients from taking their medicines. Presented at Topics in Research and Education for Nursing Development

No abstract available.

Recruitment to the “Breast—Activity and Healthy Eating After Diagnosis” (B-AHEAD) Randomized Controlled Trial (2017)
Journal Article
Pegington, M., Adams, J. E., Bundred, N. J., Harvie, M. N., Campbell, A., Howell, A., Howell, S. J., Speed, S., Wolstenholme, J., & Harvey, M. (2018). Recruitment to the “Breast—Activity and Healthy Eating After Diagnosis” (B-AHEAD) Randomized Controlled Trial. Integrative Cancer Therapies, 17(1), 131-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/1534735416687850

Excess weight at breast cancer diagnosis and weight gain during treatment are linked to increased breast cancer specific and all-cause mortality. The Breast—Activity and Healthy Eating After Diagnosis (B-AHEAD) trial tested 2 weight loss diet and exe... Read More about Recruitment to the “Breast—Activity and Healthy Eating After Diagnosis” (B-AHEAD) Randomized Controlled Trial.

Implementation of a consumer-focused eHealth intervention for people with moderate-to-high cardiovascular disease risk: protocol for a mixed-methods process evaluation (2017)
Journal Article
Coorey, G. M., Neubeck, L., Usherwood, T., Peiris, D., Parker, S., Lau, A. Y. S., Chow, C., Panaretto, K., Harris, M., Zwar, N., & Redfern, J. (2017). Implementation of a consumer-focused eHealth intervention for people with moderate-to-high cardiovascular disease risk: protocol for a mixed-methods process evaluation. BMJ Open, 7(1), Article e014353. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014353

Technology-mediated strategies have potential to engage patients in modifying unhealthy behaviour and improving medication adherence to reduce morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular disease (CVD). Furthermore, electronic tools offer a medium by... Read More about Implementation of a consumer-focused eHealth intervention for people with moderate-to-high cardiovascular disease risk: protocol for a mixed-methods process evaluation.

Security for Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare (2017)
Book Chapter
Saleem, K., Tan, Z., & Buchanan, W. (2017). Security for Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare. In Health 4.0: How Virtualization and Big Data are Revolutionizing Healthcare (233-251). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47617-9_12

The great leap forward of cyber-physical systems has made provision for future personalized medicine. However, these systems are prone to cyber attacks. To provide patients with secure and reliable healthcare experience, the security issues of cyber-... Read More about Security for Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare.

Application of Mixed Effects Limits of Agreement in the Presence of Multiple Sources of Variability: Exemplar from the Comparison of Several Devices to Measure Respiratory Rate in COPD Patients (2016)
Journal Article
Parker, R. A., Weir, C. J., Rubio, N., Rabinovich, R., Pinnock, H., Hanley, J., McCloughan, L., Drost, E. M., Mantoani, L. C., MacNee, W., & McKinstry, B. (2016). Application of Mixed Effects Limits of Agreement in the Presence of Multiple Sources of Variability: Exemplar from the Comparison of Several Devices to Measure Respiratory Rate in COPD Patients. PLOS ONE, 11(12), Article e0168321. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168321

Introduction
The Bland-Altman limits of agreement method is widely used to assess how well the measurements produced by two raters, devices or systems agree with each other. However, mixed effects versions of the method which take into account multi... Read More about Application of Mixed Effects Limits of Agreement in the Presence of Multiple Sources of Variability: Exemplar from the Comparison of Several Devices to Measure Respiratory Rate in COPD Patients.

Health 4.0: The Case of Multiple Sclerosis (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Grigoriadis, N., Bakirtzis, C., Politis, C., Danas, K., & Thuemmler, C. (2016, September). Health 4.0: The Case of Multiple Sclerosis. Presented at 2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), Munch, Germany

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic and variable disease in matters of symptoms, clinical course and outcome. The ultimate goal of currently used drugs and therapeutic strategies is the control of disease activity and the delay of the ongoing disability.... Read More about Health 4.0: The Case of Multiple Sclerosis.

Dynamic fine-grained access control in e-Health using: The secure SQL server system as an enabler of the future Internet (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Paulin, A., & Thuemmler, C. (2016, September). Dynamic fine-grained access control in e-Health using: The secure SQL server system as an enabler of the future Internet. Presented at 2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)

This paper describes the use of the Secure SQL Server system (SecSQL) – a system for dynamic fine-grained access control, in the context of e-Health. The system was used in two heterogeneous use-cases of a European project, namely: to govern drugs al... Read More about Dynamic fine-grained access control in e-Health using: The secure SQL server system as an enabler of the future Internet.

Determinants of Next Generation e-Health Network and Architecture Specifications (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thuemmler, C., Paulin, A., & Lim, A. K. (2016, September). Determinants of Next Generation e-Health Network and Architecture Specifications. Presented at 2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)

This paper summarizes the determinants for future e-Health network and IT infrastructures in the health care environment. The paper bases on observations conducted as part of a larger study at a university hospital in Munich, and summarizes ongoing d... Read More about Determinants of Next Generation e-Health Network and Architecture Specifications.

U-Prove Based Security Framework for Mobile Device Authentication in eHealth Networks (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zeb, K., Saleem, K., Al Muhtadi, J., & Thuemmler, C. (2016, September). U-Prove Based Security Framework for Mobile Device Authentication in eHealth Networks. Presented at 2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)

Cybersecurity in the health care domain is one of the most important and critical issues of this era. In fact, it was reported in 2014 that on the black market medical records are worth 10 times more than credit card details [1]. Datasets experience... Read More about U-Prove Based Security Framework for Mobile Device Authentication in eHealth Networks.

Opportunistic screening to detect atrial fibrillation in Aboriginal adults in Australia (2016)
Journal Article
Gwynne, K., Flaskas, Y., O'Brien, C., Jeffries, T. L., McCowen, D., Finlayson, H., Martin, T., Neubeck, L., & Freedman, B. (2016). Opportunistic screening to detect atrial fibrillation in Aboriginal adults in Australia. BMJ Open, 6(11), Article e013576. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013576

Introduction There is a 10-year gap in life expectancy between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. The leading cause of death for Aboriginal Australians is cardiovascular disease, including myocardial infarction and stroke. Although atrial fib... Read More about Opportunistic screening to detect atrial fibrillation in Aboriginal adults in Australia.

A novel human-computer interface creating a framework for the cognitive ergonomics of ECG interpretation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cairns, A., Bond, R. R., Finlay, D., Breen, C., Guldenring, D., Gaffney, R., Henn, P., Gallagher, A., & Peace, A. (2016, October). A novel human-computer interface creating a framework for the cognitive ergonomics of ECG interpretation. Poster presented at Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference, Cork

Predominantly the 12-lead Electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation process remains a paper based approach. However, the ECG in this format creates a significant cognitive workload for an interpreter due its complexity and the plethora of knowledge that... Read More about A novel human-computer interface creating a framework for the cognitive ergonomics of ECG interpretation.