Jonathan Kay
Professor of Health Informatics
Prof Jonathan Kay Professor of Health Informatics
Room: A304
Centre for Health Informatics
School of Informatics
City University
London EC1V OHB
jonathan.kay.1@soi.city.ac.uk
tel: +44 20 7040 8367
fax: +44 20 7040 8364
Profile
Jonathan Kay is Professor of Health Informatics at the Centre for Health Informatics and a Consultant Chemical Pathologist at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals. He has been Chairman of the Information Group of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and was a senior consultant to the Design Authority of the NHS National Programme for IT for England.
For many years he has been trying to derive clinical benefits by persuading computers to communicate. This has included work on automated transmission of laboratory reports to general practitioners, hypertext advisory systems and handheld wireless computers. With his colleagues John McVittie, David Nurse and Christos Bountis he has won six national and international awards, including the 1998 Deloitte Consulting Award for Information Management Project of the Year and a 2003 European Union Best Practice in eHealth Award for the development of the Oxford Clinical Intranet.
He is currently working with Professor Mike Murphy on positive patient identification. This work is an "NHS Live" demonstrator and was selected as the Case Study in the UK National Patient Safety Agency report: "Right Patient, Right Care".
He is a Board Member with responsibility for patient liaison of "Lab Tests Online UK", a patient-facing website about laboratory investigations.
He enjoys human powered vehicles, driving the Caterham 7 which he built, and acting with Garsington Opera and the Garsington Players.
Key Publications
Papers
- The Oxford clinical intranet: providing clinicians with access to patient records and multiple knowledge bases with internet technology. Kay JD, Nurse D, Bountis C, Paddon K. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2004;100:130-8.
- An integrated knowledge management system for the clinical laboratories: an initial application of an architectural model. Bountis C, Kay JD.Stud Health Technol Inform. 2002;90:562-7.
- Murphy MF, Kay JD. Barcode identification for transfusion safety. Curr Opin Hematol. 2004 Sep;11(5):334-8.
- Murphy MF, Kay JD. Patient identification: problems and potential solutions. Vox Sang. 2004 Jul;87 Suppl 2:197-202.
- Kay JD. Communicating with clinicians. Ann Clin Biochem. 2001 Mar;38(Pt 2):103-10.
- Construction of a virtual EPR and automated contextual linkage to multiple sources of support information on the Oxford Clinical Intranet. Kay JD, Nurse D. Proc AMIA Symp. 1999;:829-33.
- Fletcher J, Hicks NR, Kay JD, Boyd PA. Using decision analysis to compare policies for antenatal screening for Down's syndrome. BMJ. 1995 Aug 5;311(7001):351-6.
- Communication of structured medical information by computers: the Oxford experience.McVittie J, Kay JD. Health Technol Inform. 1993;6:134-7.