Centre for Healthcare Modelling and Informatics
The organisations that form the National Health Service (NHS) – and those that provide social care – form a multi-billion pound business sector that impacts on the lives of every single person in the UK.
Thousands of people lose their lives in hospital each year because deterioration in their condition is not spotted early enough for treatment to be effective. An ageing population also means there's an ever-expanding demand for healthcare.
At the Centre for Healthcare Modelling and Informatics, we're working to develop technology that can make the work of these organisations more efficient. We conduct research that aims to make the NHS and social care services better for society.
We're using our information systems and computer science expertise to make the day-to-day jobs involved in healthcare delivery and administration easier. We're using our established links with healthcare and social care professionals to research new solutions to relevant problems – and providing knowledge and expertise to organisations and individuals that want to adopt information, communication and sensing technologies.
And because there's a growing need for better technology that can provide solutions that enable healthcare to be delivered at scale, we're looking for ways to deliver the technology required – and to equip healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills to use it.
Research
Our researchers covers the following areas of expertise:
Funders and collaborations
We collaborate with clinical colleagues at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust. This underpins our clinical outcome modelling work, and the projects in that area. We use anonymised data from the hospital to conduct our research.
We collaborate with academic institutions nationally, including the University of Southampton, and the University of Oxford. Our academic collaborations give us access to specialist skills in areas complementary to our own.
Our work has been funded by various organisations and institutions, including the National Institute for Health Research, Innovate UK, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and the Health Innovation Challenge Fund.
Projects
We're involved in several major projects:
- The background data analysis work that led to the development of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) by the Royal College of Physicians. NEWS is the method adopted by all British hospitals to convert a patient's vital signs measurements into a measurement of their risk.
- We're looking at how NEWS can be expanded to include other clinical information, such as blood test results, to provide a better means of identifying which patients need to be considered for intensive care.
- We looked at the extent to which a reduced level of nurse staffing affects a patient's outcome.
- We have begun a study to answer questions about how frequently nurses need to take vital sign measurements.
- We are interested in the ways in which people can be monitored at home, or in a residential care home, to better identify those at risk of deterioration. This includes technology to monitor the person's health and how that information can be used by healthcare providers such as the NHS.
- We are investigating how better health and well-being can be achieved through support from technology, such as smartphone apps.
- We are researching how hospitals and other NHS organisations share data, to provide the most effective and efficient service to patients.
- We are interested in how computer vision can help understand, reconstruct and process facial and human actions and visual scenes.
Our members
Elisavet Andrikopoulou
- Job Title Lecturer
- Email Address UP629097@myport.ac.uk
- Department School of Computing
- Faculty Faculty of Technology

Dr Farzad Arabikhan
- Job Title Senior Lecturer
- Email Address farzad.arabikhan@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Computing
- Faculty Faculty of Technology
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Dr Mohamed Bader-El-Den
- Job Title Reader in Data Science and Machine Learning
- Email Address mohamed.bader@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Computing
- Faculty Faculty of Technology
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

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Professor Jim Briggs
- Job Title Professor of Informatics and Associate Dean (Research)
- Email Address Jim.Briggs@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Computing
- Faculty Faculty of Technology
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Dr John Chiverton
- Job Title Lecturer
- Email Address john.chiverton@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Energy and Electronic Engineering
- Faculty Faculty of Technology
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Dr Tineke Fitch
- Job Title Principal Lecturer and Deputy Head of the School of Computing
- Email Address Tineke.Fitch@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Computing
- Faculty Faculty of Technology
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Dr Alice Good
- Job Title Senior Lecturer
- Email Address Alice.Good@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Computing
- Faculty Faculty of Technology
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Dr Rinat Khusainov
- Job Title Senior Lecturer and Associate Head of School (Research and Innovation)
- Email Address Rinat.Khusainov@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Computing
- Faculty Faculty of Technology
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Dr Haythem Nakkas
- Job Title Lecturer
- Email Address haythem.nakkas@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Computing
- Faculty Faculty of Technology

Dr Jason Oakley
- Job Title Head of School of Health and Care Professions
- Email Address jason.oakley@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Health and Care Professions
- Faculty Faculty of Science and Health
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Dr Bola Omisade
- Job Title Lecturer
- Email Address bola.omisade@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Computing
- Faculty Faculty of Technology

Professor David Prytherch
- Job Title Professor of Health Informatics
- Email Address david.prytherch@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Computing
- Faculty Faculty of Technology
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor

Dr Philip Scott
- Job Title Reader in Health Informatics
- Email Address mde60047@myport.ac.uk
- Department School of Computing
- Faculty Faculty of Technology

Professor Hui Yu
- Email Address Hui.Yu@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Creative Technologies
- Faculty Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries
- PhD Supervisor PhD Supervisor
Mr Hassan Zaidi
- Job Title Senior Research Associate
- Email Address hassan.zaidi@port.ac.uk
- Department School of Computing
- Faculty Faculty of Technology