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| Name | Grimson, Jane Barclay | |
| Main Department | Computer Science | |
| College Title | Professor | |
| jane.grimson@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 1780 | |
| Web | http://people.tcd.ie/jgrimson | |
| Biography | |
| 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. | |
| Representations |
| Details | Date |
| CEC ad-hoc committee on Distributed Databases | 1984-1985 |
| Proceedings Co-Editor and Member of the Local Organising Committee, 3rd IFIP International Conference on Computer Security, Dublin, August 1985 | 1985 |
| Conference Chair, 2nd International Conference on Databases in Parallel and Distributed Systems, Dublin, July 1990 | 1990 |
| General Chair, 19th International conference on Very Large Data Bases, Dublin, August 1993 | 1993 |
| Member, Irish Council for Science, Technology and Innovation | 1997-2001 |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| Fellow, Irish Academy of Engineering | ||
| Member, Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland | ||
| Fellow, Irish Computer Society | ||
| Fellow, Institution of Engineers of Ireland | ||
| Fellow, Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland | ||
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| Awards and Honours | |
| Award | Date |
| Elected Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering | 1998 |
| Elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine, Ireland | 1996 |
| Elected Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland | 1991 |
| Elected Fellow of the Irish Computer Society | 1991 |
| Elected Fellow of Trinity College Dublin | 1991 |
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| Languages |
| Language | Skill Reading | Skill Writing | Skill Speaking |
| English | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
| French | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| German | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| Description of Research Interests |
| 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. |
| Research Interests | |||
| CARE | CHALLENGES | CLINICAL LABORATORIES | CLINICAL LABORATORY FUNCTIONALITIES |
| CLINICAL PROTOCOLS | COMPUTER | DATABASE | DATABASE PROTOTYPING |
| DATABASE SAMPLING | Distributed Systems | Distributed systems | EDUCATION |
| ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE | ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE RECORD | ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE RECORD SYSTEMS | EVALUATION |
| Electronic Healthcare Records | FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCIES | FUNCTIONAL INTERFACES | GUIDELINE |
| Health informatics | INFORMATICS | INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT | INTEGRITY CONSTRAINTS |
| INTERNET AND GENETIC MEDICINE | IT AWARENESS | KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION | KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS |
| Knowledge and data engineering | LEGACY MIGRATION | Legacy Systems | MACHINE LEARNING |
| MEDICINE | Medical Informatics | OPEN ARCHITECTURE | OPEN CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEM |
| OPEN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING | OPENLABS | QUALITY ASSESSMENT | RECORD SERVER |
| SERVER INTERFACES | SUPPORT | SYSTEMS | System Integration |
| TELEMATICS | TRAINING | USER REQUIREMENTS DRIVEN LEARNING |
| Publications |
| Peer Reviewed |
| Melanie Spaeth, Jane Grimson, Applying the archetype approach to the database of a biobank information management system, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 80, (3), 2011, p205 - 226 | |
| Bisbal, J., Grimson, J., Grimson, W., Berry, D. and Hederman, L., From passive to active electronic healthcare records , Methods of Information in Medicine, 42, (5), 2003, p535 - 543 Url |
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| Grimson, J. , Delivering the electronic healthcare record for the 21st century, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 64, (2-3), 2001, p111 - 127 Url DOI |
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| Grimson, J., Grimson, W. and Hasselbring, W., The system integration challenge in healthcare, Communications of the ACM, 43, (6), 2000, p49 - 55 | |
| Grimson, J. and McGann, C., Automated Physical Modelling, Dublin, Trinity College, Department of Computer Science, 1992 Notes: [External technical reports (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science) ; 92-41] |
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