Centre for Health Informatics

Juan Jesus Adriano Moran

Research Student

Photo of Mr Juan Jesus Adriano Moran Mr Juan Jesus Adriano Moran
Research Student
Room: A304
Centre for Health Informatics
School of Informatics
City University
London EC1V OHB

J.J.Adriano-Moran@soi.city.ac.uk
tel: +44 20 7040 4139
fax: +44 20 7040 8364

Profile

Juan Adriano is a PhD student at the Centre for Health Informatics (CHI). He joined the Centre in 2004. Since then, he has been working in the development of a Decision Support System for designing and implementing Telecare, under the supervision of Professors A. Roudsari and J. Kay.

He graduated from the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico in 1998 as Biomedical Engineer. Thereafter, in 2002, he studied an MSc in Healthcare Technologies at the Centre for Measurement and Information in Medicine at City University. Both his PhD and MSc have been funded by the Mexican National Council for Science and Technology.

Mr. Adriano has been actively involved in the academic and research life at the School of Informatics (SOI), working as a Visiting Lecturer and Tutor for the IN2017 module: Systems Theory since 2005, and was an student representative for CHI at the Research Degrees Committee from 2004 to 2007. He has been involved in an EU-funded project the REALITY project led by CHI, in an SDO research project, the PEARLE project, led by University of Hertfordshire and City University, and recently has also invited to collaborate in NHS CFHEP 003 - Evaluation of the pilot implementation of an IT specification for a blood tracking systems.

His research interests include the field of Telemedicine and Telecare, Healthcare Modelling, Management of Chronic Diseases, and the use of Hand-Held Devices in Healthcare.

Project

A Decision Support System for Modelling Telecare

Abstract

For the last decades, the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has been seen as a method to improve and supply equal access for people to health care services. However, ICT integration has not been an easy task. To be successful in the operation of home based systems (telecare) or other telehealth applications, it is required that feasibility studies are to be carried out in advance. Anticipating the ways in which the medical practice will be affected in terms of their operations and resources are crucial elements that decision makers require to analyse before any new initiative takes place within the healthcare system.

Complex pilot projects can be implemented to capture such changes; however these projects may not be replicable and they imply extra costs and time. Furthermore, diverse policies and strategies can be difficult, impossible, or even dangerous to explore within the actual service running in reality. If telemedicine and telecare (as well as any other IT initiative in the Healthcare) are not well planned, the consequences could affect negatively the performance of the whole service. For instance, they could interfere with other activities of health providers, increment workloads, and promote resistance to adoption, among others.

So far, we sustain that ill-defined projects, technology-driven approaches, and lack of understanding complex system are factors that lead to non-satisfactory telecare results. A possible solution to those problems would be to design a tool for capturing the behaviour of telecare within the healthcare system. With such tool, decision makers will be able to perform service evaluations before the actual system is implemented. As result, better decision making would take place.

The general aim of this research is to designing a Framework that helps in the decision making process for planning telecare services under different healthcare scenarios.

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