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A paper from my dissertation has been published in the Journal of the Medical Informatics Association, titled From illness management to quality of life: rethinking consumer health informatics opportunities for progressive, potentially fatal illnesses. In this paper we advocate the need to reconceptualize consumer health technologies to prioritize quality of life for people with a… Continue reading From illness management to quality in supporting progressive, potentially fatal illness experiences

The University of Victoria’s GSSO (gender, sex and sexual orientation team) has published a paper on their research discussions from 2021-2022. In this paper we provide a list of six priorities that identified through monthly discussions with a policy-makers, community groups and advocates working with 2SLGBTQIA+.

Our team’s paper on how a helping intervention for targeting cognitive load has been published in JMIR. Through this paper we demonstrate how cognitive load can be impacted through context-switching involved when navigating multiple healthcare technologies — and how this becomes even more challenging when people experience environmental distractions introduced through unreliable internet connections, and… Continue reading Telehealth, Cognitive Load, and Health Equity

Wrapped up 2022 with a publication on ‘Advancing digital patient-centered in team-based care.’. In this paper our team proposes five methods that could be used to help conceptualize how to integrate patient-centered measurements into team-based care. These include: 1) Patient-centered measurement Team Mapping; 2)  Longitudinal Care Alignment; 3)  Digital Tool Exploration; 4) Team-based Quality Improvement;… Continue reading Advancing digital patient-centered measurement methods for team-based care

Thanks to all of the members of the Canada Health Infoway Social Determinants of Health Working Group. In our inaugural year of the group we looked at measures on racism and discrimination as first steps towards conceptualizing standards for this domain. The summary of our discussion and review are presented in the paper “Towards developing… Continue reading Developing Standards on Racism and Discrimination – A Working Group Paper

The International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI) conducts an annual review of papers making an impact in Medical Informatics. For 2021, one of their focuses was on Addressing Bias, Equity, and Literacy to Strengthen Health Systems. My team’s publication on Toward an inclusive digital health system for sexual and gender minorities in Canada was one… Continue reading Honorable mention by IJMI

Really appreciated the chance to be part of the panel discussion at the American Medical Informatics Conference (AMIA) with Alicia Williamson, Dr. Elaine Khoong, Dr. Jorge A. Rodriguez, Lucy Gray, and Dr. Tiffany Veinot. The began panel with a quick overview of theories that have been applied in intermediary interventions for addressing digital health inequities.… Continue reading AMIA Panel: Human intermediaries as core infrastructure for addressing telehealth access inequities

I have a new publication in the International Journal of Medical Informatics’ annual issue, and their special topic on “Inclusive Digital Health: Addressing Equity, Literacy, and Bias for Resilient Health Systems” In this paper we propose PRAXIS (Participation and Representation, Appropriate methods and interventions, conteXtualization and structural competence, Investigation of Systematic differences) as a framework… Continue reading Equitable Research PRAXIS: A Framework for Health Informatics Methods

I had the chance to speak with Dr. Pat Camp about my dissertation work on the Lung Fit podcast Lung Fit is a podcast focused on pulmonary rehab. Through my dissertation research I was quite surprised to learn of the disparity in pulmonary rehab services across the province of BC. Many people living with COPD… Continue reading Lung Fit Podcast

What joy to have been able to cross the stage this week and make my doctoral degree official. When I was given the card to designate the order I would cross the stage, I had red ink in the top corner to note of ‘First Phd’ to note that I would be the first to… Continue reading Convocation Day