Seminar: Professor Christian Nøhr - Monitoring use of eHealth on a national level

Wednesday, 8 April 2015

Many countries have national strategies for eHealth development and dissemination. The availability of systems and functions are often benchmarked on a national level, but as the availability approaches 100% it becomes interesting to know how much the available functionality is being used, and to what extent it is being used as originally intended. As we experienced in the Nordic countries (Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland) monitoring and comparing the actual use of eHealth in different countries is quite complicated. I will discuss some of the challenges we encountered, and present some of the results.

Speaker Profile:

Christian Nøhr, M.Sc. Ph.D. Professor of technology analysis and health care planning at Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark. Director for the Danish Centre for Health Informatics. Adjunct Professor at School of Computing & Information Systems, University of Tasmania.

Christian Nøhr has been working with health care informatics for many years. His main research field is organizational change, implementation and evaluation of information systems in health care. His main efforts have been to develop methodologies for national monitoring of development and dissemination of eHealth technologies. He is currently working in the Danish eHealth Observatory, the Nordic eHealth Research Network (NeRN), and an OECD taskforce on developing national indicators for eHealth dissemination and use.

Where: Level 6, 75 Talavera Road - Group Workshop Room 614

When: Wednesday, 8th April, 2015

Time: 12 noon - 1pm

Cost: Free

Contact: jackie.mullins@mq.edu.au or call 9850 2407