Lucy Hederman

SUPERVISION QUOTA REACHED My current research addresses the integration of data for clinical research using semantic web technologies. We tackle data wrangling, data quality, data protection issues. Specific projects for 2021 have not been identified yet, but if you are interested, email me. More broadly I will supervise projects in health informatics (the application of IT to healthcare) and projects involving data management, for health and more broadly. I am happy to supervise student-generated projects into the (user-centred) design and development of (prototype) apps and systems in a wide variety of domains.

TAKEN Visualisation of health telemonitoring data in support of multi-disciplinary clinics TAKEN

Lucy Hederman (email | all projects)

Motor neurone disease (MND) patients attending the multi-disciplinary clinic at Beaumont Hospital are encouraged to use a telemonitoring system to record their status between clinic visits. The current system does not facilitate efficient review by clinic staff planning the clinic or easy use of the data during visits. This project will build on one last … Read more

TAKEN Patient-generated health data

Lucy Hederman (email | all projects)

Increasingly, patients gather data relevant to their care on their phones and via wearable or home-based sensors. But getting that data into a form that can be shared seamlessly with the healthcare system is a challenge. And clinicians have concerns about the quality of the data where it came from and to what extent they … Read more

TAKEN Student-led (web-)app user-centred design projects

Lucy Hederman (email | all projects)

I have supervised many projects involving the design and prototype development of apps and am happy to do more. Past examples include a mobile app to support development of patient self-efficacy, a mobile app to support suicide watch teams on the Corrib in Galway, a web application for supporting virtual work team productivity, and a … Read more