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What Twitter can tell you about our health: Some insights from the 17th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research 2015 (#ISHIMR2015) (2015)
Digital Artefact
O'Connor, S. (2015). What Twitter can tell you about our health: Some insights from the 17th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research 2015 (#ISHIMR2015). [http://ihawkes.academicblogs.co.uk/2015/07/01/what-twitter-can-tell-you-about-our-health-some-insights-from-the-17th-international-symposium-for-health-information-management-research-2015-ishimr2015/]. University of Glasgow, UK

Blog: The 17th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research 2015 (http://www.ishimr2015.com/) was a real eye opener for me as I got an insight into the power of Twitter analytics and how it can be applied in public health resear... Read More about What Twitter can tell you about our health: Some insights from the 17th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research 2015 (#ISHIMR2015).

IoT analytics: collect, process, analyze and present massive amounts of operational data - research and innovation challenges. (2015)
Book Chapter
Barnaghi, P., Bauer, M., Biswas, A. R., Botterman, M., Cheng, B., Cirillo, F., Dillinger, M., Graux, H., Hoseinitabatabaie, S. A., Kovacs, E., Longo, S., Nunna, S., Paulin, A., Prasad, R. R. V., Soldatos, J., Thuemmler, C., & Volk, M. (2015). IoT analytics: collect, process, analyze and present massive amounts of operational data - research and innovation challenges. In O. Vermesan, & P. Friess (Eds.), Building the Hyperconnected Society : IoT research and innovation value chains, ecosystems and markets. Volume 43 (1-331). River Publisher

IoT analytics: collect, process, analyze and present massive amounts of operational data - research and innovation challenges.

Mobile Technology and Its Use in Clinical Nursing Education: A Literature Review (2015)
Journal Article
O’Connor, S., & Andrews, T. (2015). Mobile Technology and Its Use in Clinical Nursing Education: A Literature Review. Journal of Nursing Education, 54(3), 137-144. https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20150218-01

Nursing students face a variety of challenges to learning in clinical practice, from the theory–practice gap, to a lack of clinical supervision and the ad hoc nature of learning in clinical environments. Mobile technology is proposed as one way to ad... Read More about Mobile Technology and Its Use in Clinical Nursing Education: A Literature Review.

Ethical assessment in e-Health (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gonzalez-Pinto, A., Ruiz de Azua, S., Mival, O. H., Thuernmler, C., Jumelle, A. K. L., Ispas, I., Thuemmler, C., Mival, O., Kosta, E., Casla, P., Ruiz de Azúa, S., & González-Pinto, A. (2014, October). Ethical assessment in e-Health. Presented at 2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), Natal, Brazil

While innovative e-Health and m-Health technologies and solutions will eventually change the way health and social care are delivered, it raises many challenges regarding what sort of ethical concerns need to be addressed in order to provide imperati... Read More about Ethical assessment in e-Health.

A social-technological alignment matrix. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thuemmler, C., Mival, O., Lim, A. K., Holanec, I., & Fricker, S. (2014, October). A social-technological alignment matrix. Presented at 2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), Natal, Brazil

This paper refers to the term " implementation " as the Especially in health care this has proven to be a very critical phase Although strategies such as requirements engineering, co-designing and user interaction design have been proposed to reduce... Read More about A social-technological alignment matrix..

Review of e-Frailty evaluation frameworks. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smales, A., Buchanan, W. J., & Thuemmler, C. (2015, January). Review of e-Frailty evaluation frameworks. Paper presented at HIS 2015

This paper outlines some of the key methods used to evaluate frailty and provide important metrics for the implementation of an e-Frailty framework. Frailty is an emergent property of the aging process, as measured using quantification of accumulatio... Read More about Review of e-Frailty evaluation frameworks..

Health: RFID makes surgery safer. (2014)
Book Chapter
Mival, O., Thuemmler, C., Schneider, A., Paulin, A., Kranzfelder, M., & Hasan, A. (2014). Health: RFID makes surgery safer. In P. Cousin (Ed.), Internet of Things: Success Stories (54-60). Internet of Things Council

This document presents a novel technique to reduce the risk of forgotten surgical towels in surgery. It is an application of IoT in field of healthcare. Integrating RFID tags into towels and developing an application to read this information allow nu... Read More about Health: RFID makes surgery safer..

Comparing Multi-label Classification with Reinforcement Learning for Summarisation of Time-series Data (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., Hastie, H., & Lemon, O. (2014, June). Comparing Multi-label Classification with Reinforcement Learning for Summarisation of Time-series Data. Presented at The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Baltimore

We present a novel approach for automatic report generation from time-series data, in the context of student feedback generation. Our proposed methodology treats content selection as a multi-label (ML)
classification problem, which takes as input ti... Read More about Comparing Multi-label Classification with Reinforcement Learning for Summarisation of Time-series Data.

Patient factors associated with SSRI dose for depression treatment in general practice: A primary care cross sectional study (2014)
Journal Article
Johnson, C. F., Dougall, N. J., Williams, B., MacGillivray, S. A., Buchanan, A. I., & Hassett, R. D. (2014). Patient factors associated with SSRI dose for depression treatment in general practice: A primary care cross sectional study. BMC Family Practice, 15(210), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-014-0210-9

Background
Antidepressant prescribing continues to rise. Increased long-term prescribing and higher doses are contributing to current growth; however, patient factors associated with the use of higher doses remain unknown. This study’s aim was to in... Read More about Patient factors associated with SSRI dose for depression treatment in general practice: A primary care cross sectional study.

Specification for Generic Enablers as Software (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brogan, J. P., & Thuemmler, C. (2014, April). Specification for Generic Enablers as Software. Presented at 2014 11th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations

Generic Enablers are a specialism of software engineering. They are components used for providing reusable building blocks that enable the construction of applications for future internet technology. The Generic Enablers satisfy requirements of appli... Read More about Specification for Generic Enablers as Software.

Deaths by suicide and their relationship with general and psychiatric hospital discharge: 30-year record linkage study (2014)
Journal Article
Dougall, N., Lambert, P., Maxwell, M., Dawson, A., Sinnott, R., McCafferty, S., Morris, C., Clark, D., & Springbett, A. (2014). Deaths by suicide and their relationship with general and psychiatric hospital discharge: 30-year record linkage study. British Journal of Psychiatry, 204(4), 267-273. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.112.122374

Background: Studies have rarely explored suicides completed following discharge from both general and psychiatric hospital settings. Such research might identify additional opportunities for intervention. Aims: To identify and summarise Scottish psyc... Read More about Deaths by suicide and their relationship with general and psychiatric hospital discharge: 30-year record linkage study.

A meta-ethnography of organisational culture in primary care medical practice (2014)
Journal Article
Grant, S., Guthrie, B., Entwistle, V., & Williams, B. (2014). A meta-ethnography of organisational culture in primary care medical practice. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 28(1), 21-40. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-07-2012-0125

Purpose
– Over the past decade, there has been growing international interest in shaping local organisational cultures in primary healthcare. However, the contextual relevance of extant culture assessment instruments to the primary care context has... Read More about A meta-ethnography of organisational culture in primary care medical practice.

Norms and standards in modular medical architectures. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fricker, S., Fiedler, M., Grottland, A., Jell, T., Magedanz, T., Thuemmler, C., Mival, O., Benyon, D., Buchanan, W. J., & Paulin, A. (2013, October). Norms and standards in modular medical architectures. Presented at 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom 2013)

Recent Internet of Things (IoT) research has been aiming at interoperability of devices and the integration of sensor networks. The Future Internet - Private Public Partnership (FI-PPP) has created a whole array of different purpose-oriented modules... Read More about Norms and standards in modular medical architectures..

An architecture for designing Future Internet (FI) applications in sensitive domains: Expressing the software to data paradigm by utilizing hybrid cloud technology (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sotiriadis, S., Petrakis, E. G. M., Covaci, S., Zampognaro, P., Georga, E., & Thuemmler, C. (2013, November). An architecture for designing Future Internet (FI) applications in sensitive domains: Expressing the software to data paradigm by utilizing hybrid cloud technology. Presented at 13th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, Chania, Greece

The emergency of cloud computing and Generic Enablers (GEs) as the building blocks of Future Internet (FI) applications highlights new requirements in the area of cloud services. Though, due to the current restrictions of various certification standa... Read More about An architecture for designing Future Internet (FI) applications in sensitive domains: Expressing the software to data paradigm by utilizing hybrid cloud technology.

A social technological alignment matrix. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thuemmler, C., Mival, O., Lim Jumelle, A. K., Holanec, I., & Fricker, S. (2014, January). A social technological alignment matrix. Paper presented at IEEE Healthcom 2014

This paper refers to the term “implementation” as the process of integrating a new technology into established workflows. Especially in health care this has proven to be a very critical phase and many large-scale projects have failed on this very las... Read More about A social technological alignment matrix..

Conducting Performance Evaluation of an e-Health Platform (2013)
Book Chapter
Lo, O., Fan, L., Buchanan, W. J., & Thuemmler, C. (2013). Conducting Performance Evaluation of an e-Health Platform. In T. Issa, P. Isaías, & P. Kommers (Eds.), Advances in Business Information Systems and Analytics; Information Systems and Technology for Organizations in a Networked Society (295-315). IGI Global Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4062-7.ch016

For increased awareness and adoption of e-Health implementations, results from evaluation must be catered towards three primary perspectives: organizational, end-user and technical perspective. This chapter addresses the issue of conducting performan... Read More about Conducting Performance Evaluation of an e-Health Platform.

The psychological experience of living with head and neck cancer: a systematic review and meta-synthesis: Review and meta-synthesis of the experience of head and neck cancer (2013)
Journal Article
Lang, H., France, E., Williams, B., Humphris, G., & Wells, M. (2013). The psychological experience of living with head and neck cancer: a systematic review and meta-synthesis: Review and meta-synthesis of the experience of head and neck cancer. Psycho-Oncology, 22(12), 2648-2663. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.3343

Objective: To summarise patients' experiences of head and neck cancer (HNC) by examining the findings of existing qualitative studies
Methods: We undertook a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies in 29 published articles using... Read More about The psychological experience of living with head and neck cancer: a systematic review and meta-synthesis: Review and meta-synthesis of the experience of head and neck cancer.

Benefits of a worksite or home-based bench stepping intervention for sedentary middle-aged adults - a pilot study (2013)
Journal Article
Mair, J. L., Boreham, C. A., Ditroilo, M., McKeown, D., M. Lowery, M., Caulfield, B., & De Vito, G. (2014). Benefits of a worksite or home-based bench stepping intervention for sedentary middle-aged adults - a pilot study. Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging, 34(1), 10-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/cpf.12056

The aim of this study was to investigate the benefits of a low-volume, vigorous intensity bench stepping programme in sedentary middle-aged adults. Thirty-one healthy but sedentary adults (12 men; 55-64 years) took part in the study. Participants acc... Read More about Benefits of a worksite or home-based bench stepping intervention for sedentary middle-aged adults - a pilot study.

Technical evaluation of an e-health platform. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lo, O., Fan, L., Buchanan, W. J., & Thuemmler, C. (2012, July). Technical evaluation of an e-health platform. Presented at IADIS International Conference e-Health 2012

Methodologies for evaluation of e-Health platforms are still lacking. We propose an e-Health evaluation framework that aims to provide a concise methodology for the evaluation of e-Health platforms under three main categories: usability evaluation, l... Read More about Technical evaluation of an e-health platform..