Collected Papers

Enrico Coiera

Last Updated April 5 2003

This is a listing of journal papers and technical reports that have appeared over the last few years. If a document is listed but is not available on-line, I may be able to send you a copy upon request.


Publications are arranged by date into the following groups:


Interaction Theory


Interaction Theory provides a framework for the design of interactions between human or computational agents, mediation by technological systems.

E. Coiera, Interaction Design Theory. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 69(2-3), 2003, 205-222.

V. Sintchenko, E. Coiera, Which clinical decisions benefit from automation? A task complexity approach, Int. J. Med. Inform (2003), 70, 309 -316.

E. Coiera, Mediated Agent Interaction, in Quaglini, Barahona and Adreassen (Eds). Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe, AIME 2001, Cascais, Portugal, 1-15. Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence No. 2101, Berlin (2001).

E. Coiera, When Conversation is better than computation, Journal American Medical Informatics Association, 7,277-286, 2000.

T Menzies, B Cukic, E Coiera, Smaller, Faster Dialogues via Conversational Probing, AAAI Workshop on Negotiation: Settling Conflicts and Identifying Opportunities , (1999).

E. Coiera, Informality , HP Laboratories Technical Report HPL-97-37 970212, (1997).


Medical Informatics


Medical Informatics - General

Books

E. Coiera, Guide to Medical Informatics, the Internet and Telemedicine, Chapman & Hall, London, (1997).

Book chapters, and Refereed Journals and Proceedings

E. Coiera, Updates in Medicine Health informatics, Medical Journal of Australia, 2002 176 1: 20.

E. Coiera, Editorial: The Impact of Culture on Technology , MJA 1999;171:508-509.

E. Coiera, Medical informatics meets medical education - There's more to understanding information than technology, Medical Journal of Australia, 168, 319-320, (1998)

E. Coiera, Four myths about the information revolution in healthcare, in Rethinking IT and Health, J. Lenaghan (ed), Institute of Public Policy Research, London, 1998, pp16-29.

E. Coiera, Editorial: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - The Challenges Ahead, Journal American Medical Informatics Association, 3,6, 363-366, (1996) [abstract] [pdf of full article] .

E. Coiera, Medical Informatics , British Medical Journal ,310, 1381-1386, (1995).

E. Coiera, Medical Informatics,The Medical Journal of Australia , 160, 438-440, (1994).

E. Coiera, Question the Assumptions, in P. Barahona, J.P. Christensen (eds), Knowledge and Decisions in Health Telematics - The Next Decade, IOS Press, Amsterdam, (1994), 61-66.

J. Durinck, E. Coiera, R. Baud et.al, The Role of Knowledge Based Systems in Clinical Practice, in P. Barahona, J.P. Christensen (eds), Knowledge and Decisions in Health Telematics - The Next Decade, IOS Press, Amsterdam, (1994), 199-203.

A. Glowinski, E. Coiera, M. O'Neil, The role of domain models in maintaining consistency of large medical knowledge bases, in M. Stefanelli et. al. (eds) AIME 91, Lecture notes in Medical Informatics 44, Springer-Verlag, Berlin,72-81,(1991).


Medical Informatics - Internet and World Wide Web

Mass Media Articles

E. Coiera, Digital doctors - will the Internet replace your doctor?, ABC Radio Health Report, 24 August 1999.

Book chapters, and Refereed Journals and Proceedings

E. Coiera, Information Economics and the Internet, Journal American Medical Informatics Association, 7, 215-221, 2000.

E. Coiera, Editorial: Information epidemics, economics, and immunity on the internet , BMJ 1998;317:1469-1470 .

E. Coiera, Editorial: The Internet's challenge to health care provision, British Medical Journal ,312,3-4, (1996). [BMJ Editor's Choice] [BMJ LETTERS1996; 312: 977 A , B , C ]


Medical Informatics - Evidence-based Decision Support

A. S. Gosling, J. I. Westbrook, E. W. Coiera, Variation in the use of online clinical evidence: a qualitative analysis, International Journal of Medical Informatics,69;1,2003,1-16.

V. Sintchenko, E. Coiera, Which clinical decisions benefit from automation? A task complexity approach, in G. Surjan et al. (eds), Health Data in the Information Society, Proceeding of MIE2002, pp 639-648, IOS Press, Amsterdam (2002). (Budapest, Hungary, August 25-29).

V. Sintchenko, G.L. Gilbert, E. Coiera, D. Dwyer, Treat or test first? Decision analysis of empirical antiviral treatment of influenza virus infection versus treatment based on rapid test results , Journal of Clinical Virology,25,(2002),15-21.

E. Coiera, Maximising the uptake of evidence into clinical practice - An information economics approach, Medical Journal of Australia, 2001; 174: 467-470.

Sintchenko V, Iredell JR, Gilbert GL, Coiera E, What do physicians think about evidence-based antibiotic use in critical care? A survey of Australian intensivists and infectious disease practitioners. J Intern Med 2001;31:462-469.

E. Coiera, Reinventing Ourselves - How innovations such as on-line 'just-in-time' CME may help bring about a genuinely evidence-based clinical practice . Medical Journal of Australia 2000; 173: 343-344.

E. Coiera, Evidence-based Medicine, the Internet, and the rise of Medical Informatics , Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Technical Report HPL-96-26, (also appeared in Orgyn, 1996).[Spanish translation]

Patents

E.Coiera, S.C.R. Lewis, Information Management System for a dynamic system and method thereof, United States Patent 5,802,542 September 1, 1 998.


Medical Informatics - Communication

Book chapters, and Refereed Journals and Proceedings

E. Coiera, R Jayasuriya, J Hardy, A Bannan and M E C Thorpe Communication loads on clinical staff in the emergency department., The Medical Journal of Australia 6 May 2002 176 (9): 415-418 [Editorial: C Vincent, R Wears, Communication in the emergency department: separating the signal from the noise, MJA 2002 176 (9): 409-410.] [ Letters to the Editor , MJA 2002 177 (6): 333-335.]

E. Coiera, Mediated Agent Interaction, in Quaglini, Barahona and Adreassen (Eds). Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe, AIME 2001, Cascais, Portugal, 1-15. Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence No. 2101, Berlin (2001).

E. Coiera, When Conversation is better than computation, Journal American Medical Informatics Association, 7,277-286, 2000.

J. Parker, E. Coiera, Improving clinical communication: a view from psychology , Journal American Medical Informatics Association, 7, 453-461, 2000.

E. Coiera, V. Tombs, Communication behaviours in a hospital setting - an observational study , BMJ, 316,673-677, (1998). [EDITORIAL BMJ 1998; 316: 642] [LETTERS BMJ 1998; 317: 279]

E. Coiera, Clinical Communication - A New Informatics Paradigm, Proc. American Medical Informatics Association Autumn Symposium, 17-21, (1996).

Patents

E. Coiera, A Gupta, Communications system for establishing a communication channel on the basis of a functional role or task, United States Patent 5,949,866 , September 7, 1999.


Medical Informatics - Intelligent Patient Monitoring Systems

Book chapters, and Refereed Journals and Proceedings

E. Coiera, V. Tombs, T. Clutton-Brock, Attentional overload as a fundamental cause of human error in monitoring , Hewlett Packard Laboratories Technical Report, 1996.

E. Coiera, Automated Signal Interpretation, in P. Hutton, C. Prys-Roberts (eds) Monitoring in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Bailliere Tindall Ltd., London, (1994), 32-42.

E. Coiera, Editorial: Intelligent Monitoring and Control of Dynamic Physiological Systems , Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 5, (1993), 1-8.

E. Coiera, Monitoring Diseases with Empirical and Model Generated Histories, in E. Keravnou (ed), Medical Artificial Intelligence I - Deep Models for Medical Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier, Amsterdam, (1992), 71-88, (revised version of AIMJ 90).

E. Coiera, Incorporating user and dialogue models into the interface design of an intelligent patient monitor , Medical Informatics, 16, 4, (1991), 331-346.

E. Coiera, Monitoring Diseases with Empirical and Model Generated Histories , Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2, (1990), 135-147.

E.Coiera, Reasoning with Qualitative Disease Histories for Diagnostic Patient Monitoring, Ph.D Thesis, Dept. Computer Science, University of New South Wales, (1989).

E. Coiera, Intelligent Patient Monitoring, Proceedings of the Fifth Australian Conference on Applications of Expert Systems, University of Technology, Sydney, (1989), 23-43.

E. Coiera, Modelling Clinical Expectation Over Time, Proceedings of the Third Australian Conference on Applications of Expert Systems, University of Technology, Sydney, (1987), 103-123.

Patents

E. Coiera, S.C.R. Lewis, Information Management System for a dynamic system and method thereof, United States Patent 5,802,542 September 1, 1998.

Invited Conferences and Workshops

E. Coiera, Designing for Decision Support in a Clinical Monitoring Environment , International Conference on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Nicosia, Cyprus, May 5-7, 130-142, (1994).

E. Coiera, A Framework for Reasoning the Progression of Disease, Department of Computer Science Technical Report, DCS 8801, University of New South Wales, Sydney, April, (1988)


Artificial Intelligence


Qualitative Reasoning and Representation

Book chapters, and Refereed Journals and Proceedings

E. Coiera, Intermediate Depth Representations, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 4, (1992), 431-445.

E. Coiera, Qualitative Superposition , Artificial Intelligence, 56, (1992), 171-196. [Postscript version]

E. Coiera, The Qualitative Representation of Physical Systems, Knowledge Engineering Review, 7,1,(1992), 55-77. [Postscript version]

E. Coiera, Qualitative Disease Histories, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - 1991 W-15 Workshop on Representing knowledge in medical decision support systems, Sydney, August, (1991).

P. Compton, E. Coiera, V. Vasylenko, Qualitative Modelling: A Tool for Simulating Glucose and other Endocrine Control Systems, Hormone and Metabolic Research, Supplement Series Vol. 24, Georg Thieme Veralg, Stuttgart, (1990). (Proceedings of the Computers and Quantitative Approaches to Diabetes International Symposium, 13th International Diabetes Federation Congress, Sydney, November, (1988)).

Technical Reports

E. Coiera, Qualitative superposition of unmodelled systems, HP Laboratories Bristol Technical Report HPL-92-166, (1992).


Machine Learning

Book chapters, and Refereed Journals and Proceedings

D. Hau, E. Coiera, Learning Qualitative Models of Dynamic Systems, Machine Learning, 26, 177-211, (1997).

D. Hau, E. Coiera, Learning Qualitative Models from Physiological Signals, AAAI Symposium on AI in Medicine - Interpreting Clinical Data , Stanford University, March 21-23, 67-71, (1994).

Technical Reports

E. Coiera, Learning Qualitative Models from Example Behaviors, Proceedings of the Third Qualitative Physics Workshop, Stanford University, Palo Alto, August, (1989).

E. Coiera, Generating qualitative models from example behaviors, DCS Report No. 8901, Department of Computer Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, May, (1989).