Enrico Coiera

General

• Position: Professor and Foundation Chair in Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine. Co-Director, Centre for Health Informatics. Adjunct professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of NSW, Sydney.
• Research Interests: medical informatics with particular interest in the merging of communication and information technologies in healthcare; and Artificial intelligence , in particular machine learning , ILP and qualitative reasoning

Background

After graduating from Sydney University Medical School in Australia, I worked as a resident medical officer at the Royal North Shore Hospital for two years. I then undertook a Masters degree in Biomedical Engineering, followed by a PhD in artificial intelligence at the School of Computer Science, University of New South Wales . My thesis explored the design of an intelligent monitor system for use in Intensive Care. I developed an interest in qualitative modelling and machine learning. I moved on to be the Head of the Clinical Computing Department back at the Royal North Shore Hospital, before moving to the UK. I then joined Hewlett Packard's Bristol Laboratories in 1990, where I initiated and lead projects focussing on the application of information and communication technologies. The projects have included:

• Intelligent signal interpretation for patient monitors
• User-interface design for an anaesthesia workstation
• Protocol-support systems for anaesthesia
• Protocol-support systems for home insulin management
• Study of the role of communication in healthcare
• Advanced mobile voice and data systems for healthcare workers

Guide to Medical Informatics, the Internet and Telemedicine

This is a book I have written for healthcare professionals who wish to understand the principles and applications of information and communication systems within healthcare.

This Web site provides both introductory information like sample chapters, ordering information and the table of contents, as well as a larger and evolving section of additional material which can be used in conjunction with the book.

List of Publications

This is a non-exhaustive listing of publically available publications from the last few years.

Publications are arranged in the following groups:

• Medical informatics - General
• Medical informatics - Communication
• Medical informatics - Intelligent Patient Monitoring
• Qualitative Reasoning and Representation
• Machine Learning

Medical AI Systems in Routine Use

This list has been collated from responses given to a request for information on the AI in Medicine Mailing List and has been significantly updated since.

If you know of a system that you would like added to the list, please send me the details, in the format used by other entries.