Professor Jane Grimson

Professor Jane Grimson is a computer engineering graduate from the University of Dublin, Trinity College, and holds a Masters and Doctorate in Computer Science from the Universities of Toronto and Edinburgh, respectively. She returned to Trinity College as a lecturer in Computer Science in 1980, is a former Dean of Engineering and of Research, and served as Vice-Provost from 2001-2005. She is a Past-President of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland, the Irish Academy of Engineering, the Irish Computer Society, and the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland. She is currently Chair of the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Irish Academy of Engineering, Engineers Ireland, the Irish Computer Society, and the Royal Academy of Medicine of Ireland. She is also a member of the Royal Irish Academy. . She holds a personal chair in Health Informatics and is currently on a partial secondment to the recently established Health Information and Quality Authority in Ireland as Director of Health Information.

  CARE   CHALLENGES   CLINICAL LABORATORIES   CLINICAL LABORATORY FUNCTIONALITIES   CLINICAL PROTOCOLS   COMPUTER   DATABASE   DATABASE PROTOTYPING   DATABASE SAMPLING   Distributed systems   EDUCATION   ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE   ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE RECORD   ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE RECORD SYSTEMS   Electronic Healthcare Records   EVALUATION   FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCIES   FUNCTIONAL INTERFACES   GUIDELINE   Health informatics   INFORMATICS   INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT   INTEGRITY CONSTRAINTS   INTERNET AND GENETIC MEDICINE   IT AWARENESS   KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION   Knowledge and data engineering   KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS   LEGACY MIGRATION   Legacy Systems   MACHINE LEARNING   Medical Informatics   MEDICINE   OPEN ARCHITECTURE   OPEN CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEM   OPEN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING   OPENLABS   QUALITY ASSESSMENT   RECORD SERVER   SERVER INTERFACES   SUPPORT   System Integration   SYSTEMS   TELEMATICS   TRAINING   USER REQUIREMENTS DRIVEN LEARNING

As will be evident from Jane Grimson's publications list, her research has covered a broad and diverse range of topics. However there has been a strong underlying focus on Knowledge and Data Engineering in general, and in particular, on supporting the development of advanced, distributed information systems. Much of the research has been applied in a novel and innovative fashion to the health domain with the result that the main emphasis of her work in recent years falls under the broad heading of Health Informatics. Health Informatics is a strongly inter-disciplinary subject and much of the research has involved working directly with clinicians and healthcare professionals. A guiding principle of much of the work has been on protecting investment in existing legacy systems while at the same time incorporating novel solutions and approaches. System integration issues in health therefore form a central theme as does the closely associated work in Electronic Healthcare Records, both of which leverage earlier research in distributed and federated databases. The core of her research philosophy can be summed up as seeking to develop ways to effectively manage data, information and knowledge in complex, heterogeneous and distributed environments.