Professor Matt-Mouley Bouamrane

Professor in Health/Social Informatics

Computing Science Division of Computing Science and Mathematics, Cottrell Building, University of Stirling

Professor Matt-Mouley Bouamrane

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I am a Professor of Health & Care Informatics & Implementation Science based within the Division of Computing Science & Mathematics of the University of Stirling.

With a background in Electronics Engineering (B. Eng., Université de Paris XI, Orsay), Computing Science (PhD & Pg. Dip Comp. Sc., Trinity College, Dublin) and Health Services Research (M.Sc., University of Glasgow), I have over 20 years’ experience of multi-disciplinary research and development in the field of computing science, software development, medical informatics and the development and evaluation of complex digital health interventions.

My research mainly focuses on the processes of Digital Health solution development and Implementation, which consists in working with patients and health and care professionals to identify areas of unmet care needs and subsequently co-design, develop, implement and evaluate digital solutions which can contribute to improvements of care processes or care outcomes.

The approach is grounded in Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Development, Socio-Technical Systems Design and Human Computer Interaction and Implementation Science and can be applied in a range of domain of application.

However, each 'use case' is typically highly idiosyncratic and each solution needs to be tailored to the specific needs entailed by the focus of the condition, care requirements and settings and user groups, being patients or providers.

Typical challenges of implementation include: fitness for purpose, complexity, adaptability, interoperability and scalability.

As an example of this research, I have been a lead member of a research collaborative with the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QUEUH) renal services, working on the development of a patient portal that chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients can use to capture and share quality of life and disease treatment burden information with the renal services team.

I also have a specific interest in researching and developing digital health solutions for patients who face high treatment burdens (e.g. patients with chronic diseases), as well as areas of unmet care needs and digital inclusion (e.g. working with people with learning disabilities), and developing solutions for healthy ageing, or assistive living technologies (such as smart homes for people with dementia).

  • I was the Scotland Lead and Principal Investigator of the Network for Technology, Innovation and Translation in Ageing (TITTAN) Interreg programme, (2016-2020, total value for network was €1,692,000, Scotland share of award: £134,569)

https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/tittan/

  • I was a lead Co-Investigator in the development of the Data Driven Innovation Talent programme (2019-2023, £989,000 funded through the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal, co-PI with Michelle Evans, Colan Mehaffey & Ruth McQuillan)

https://www.ed.ac.uk/usher/innovation/data-driven-innovation/talent-programme

  • I was a Senior Co-Investigator in the UK-wide Delivering Assisted Living Lifestyles at Scale (DALLAS) programme evaluation (2012-2015, £ 563,467 funded by the Technology Strategy Board / Innovate UK, Prof. Frances Mair, University of Glasgow PI)

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/547c/8a08d4f21f0c560db8885bed2b876769ae0a.pdf

I have authored & co-authored over a 100 scientific publications in top tier Medical Informatics journals (Nature npj Digital Medicine, The Lancet Digital Health, BMJ Medicine, JAMIA, JMIR, British Journal of Surgery) and international conferences in Computing Science (CHI, CIKM, CSCW, ISWC, INTERACT, IMIA MEDINFO, MIE, ACM SIGACCESS, etc.)

I am a former Scotland Chief Scientist Office (CSO) Fellow (2010-2013) and a current member of the CSO Health Improvement, Protection and Services (HIPS) Research Committee:

https://www.cso.scot.nhs.uk/grant-funding/response-mode-funding-schemes/health-improvement-protection-and-services-research-committee/

I am always open to research and development collaborations and opportunities with other universities (including through knowledge transfer programmes and research networks), health boards and integrated health and social boards, local authorities and industry.

I am also interested in supporting & mentoring competitive post-doctoral Fellowship applications in a research topic aligned with my research interests listed bellow.

I am also accepting PhD students who wish to conduct doctoral research in one of my topics of interest including (…but not limited to):

• Digital Health • Health & Care Informatics • Mobile Health • Healthcare Data Science • Digital Health & Care / eHealth Implementation • Decision Support Systems • Telehealth / Telecare / Assistive Technologies • Technologies to support healthy ageing • Technologies to support people living independently (e.g. smart homes) or living with dementia • Technologies to support people living with multi-morbidity conditions or high treatment burden • Technologies to support people with unmet care needs

Research

• Digital Health

• Health & Care Informatics

• Mobile Health

• Healthcare Data Science

• Digital Health & Care / eHealth Implementation

• Perioperative Medicine, Risk Prediction, remote postoperative follow-up

• Decision Support Systems

• Telehealth / Telecare / Assistive Technologies

• Technologies to support healthy ageing

• Technologies to support people living independently (e.g. smart homes) or living with dementia

• Technologies to support people living with multi-morbidity conditions or high treatment burden

• Technologies to support people with unmet care needs

Outputs (71)

Outputs

Book Chapter

Meiklem R, Bouamrane M, Kingsmore D, Stevenson K, Dunlop M & Thomson P (2024) Patient-Centred, Technology-Based Interventions for High Treatment Burden: An Overview of the State of the Art. In: Bichel-Findlay J, Otero P, Scott P & Huesing E (eds.) MEDINFO 2023 — The Future Is Accessible. Vol 310 ed. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Volume 310: MEDINFO 2023 — The Future Is Accessible. Proceedings of the 19th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics: IOS Press, pp. 529 - 533. https://doi.org/10.3233/shti231021


Book Chapter

Lapp L, Bouamrane M, Roper M, Kavanagh K & Schraag S (2024) Decision Support in Cardiac Surgery: Early Exploration of Requirements with Cardiac Anesthetists and Surgeons. In: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Volume 316. IOS Press, pp. 1827 - 1831. https://doi.org/10.3233/shti240786


Article

McLean KA, Sgrò A, Brown LR, Buijs LF, Mozolowski K, Daines L, Cresswell K, Potter MA, Bouamrane M & Harrison EM (2024) Implementation of digital remote postoperative monitoring in routine practice: a qualitative study of barriers and facilitators. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 24 (1), p. 14. https://bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12911-024-02670-5; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-024-02670-5


Article

Heeney C, Bouamrane M, Malden S, Cresswell K, Williams R & Sheikh A (2023) Optimising ePrescribing in hospitals through the interoperability of systems and processes: a qualitative study in the UK, US, Norway and the Netherlands. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 23, Art. No.: 211. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-023-02316-y


Article

McLean KA, Knight SR, Diehl TM, Varghese C, Ng N, Potter MA, Zafar SN, Bouamrane M & Harrison EM (2023) Readiness for implementation of novel digital health interventions for postoperative monitoring: a systematic review and clinical innovation network analysis. The Lancet Digital Health, 5 (5), pp. e295-e315. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(23)00026-2/fulltext#articleInformation; https://doi.org/10.1016/s2589-7500%2823%2900026-2


Article

Greenwood S, Kingsmore D, Richarz S, Thomson P, Bouamrane M, Meiklem R, Dunlop M & Stevenson K (2022) ‘It's about what I'm able to do’: Using the capabilities approach to understand the relationship between quality of life and vascular access in patients with end-stage kidney failure. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 2, Art. No.: 100187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100187


Book Chapter

Meiklem R, Stevenson K, Richarz S, Kingsmore D, Bouamrane M, Dunlop M & Thomson P (2022) Patients’ and Clinicians’ Perspectives on the Acceptability of Completing Digital Quality of Life Questionnaires During Routine Haemodialysis Clinics: A Mixed-Methods Study. In: Volume 290: MEDINFO 2021: One World, One Health – Global Partnership for Digital Innovation. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Volume 290. IOS Press, pp. 752 - 756. https://doi.org/10.3233/shti220179


Book Chapter

Meiklem R, Stevenson K, Richarz S, Kingsmore DB, Bouamrane M, Dunlop M & Thomson P (2021) Advanced Kidney Disease Patient Portal: Implementation and Evaluation with Haemodialysis Patients. In: Ardito C, Lanzilotti R, Malizia A, Petrie H, Piccinno A, Desolda G & Inkpen K (eds.) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021. 1 ed. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, pp. 175-196. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85616-8_12


Article

McLean KA, Mountain KE, Shaw CA, Drake TM, Pius R, Knight SR, Fairfield CJ, Sgrò A, Bouamrane M, Cambridge WA, Lyons M, Riad A, Skipworth RJE, Wigmore SJ, Potter MA & Harrison EM (2021) Remote diagnosis of surgical-site infection using a mobile digital intervention: a randomised controlled trial in emergency surgery patients. npj Digital Medicine, 4 (1). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-021-00526-0; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-021-00526-0


Article

Gibson RC, Bouamrane M & Dunlop MD (2021) Alternative and Augmentative Communication Technologies for Supporting Adults With Mild Intellectual Disabilities During Clinical Consultations: Scoping Review. JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies, 8 (2), p. e19925. https://rehab.jmir.org/2021/2/e19925; https://doi.org/10.2196/19925


Book Chapter

Colin Gibson R, D Dunlop M & Bouamrane M (2020) Lessons from Expert Focus Groups on how to Better Support Adults with Mild Intellectual Disabilities to Engage in Co-Design. In: Guerreiro T, Nicolau H & Moffatt K (eds.) ASSETS '20: Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. New York: ACM, pp. 1 - 12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3373625.3417008


Book Chapter

Cristina Martin M, Bouamrane M, Woolman P, Kavanagh K & Young D (2019) Characteristics and hospital activity of elderly patients receiving admission avoidance home visits: a population-level record linkage study [Martin-Bouamrane-etAl-MEDINFO 2019]. In: Ohno-Machado L & Seroussi B (eds.) MEDINFO 2019: Health and Wellbeing e-Networks for All. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol 264. IOS Press, pp. 556 - 560. https://doi.org/10.3233/shti190284


Book Chapter

Gibson RC, Bouamrane M & Dunlop M (2019) Experts Views on the Use of Mobile Devices to Support Patients with Mild Learning Disabilities During Clinical Consultations. In: Ohno-Machado L & Seroussi B (eds.) MEDINFO 2019: Health and Wellbeing e-Networks for All. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Volume 264. IOS Press, pp. 1199 - 1203. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI190416


Book Chapter

Gibson RC, Bouamrane M & Dunlop MD (2019) Ontology-Driven, Adaptive, Medical Questionnaires for Patients with Mild Learning Disabilities. In: Bramer M & Petridis M (eds.) Artificial Intelligence XXXVI: 39th SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2019, Cambridge, UK, December 17–19, 2019, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, pp. 107-121. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34885-4_8


Book Chapter

Lapp L, Bouamrane M, Kavanagh K, Roper M, Young D & Schraag S (2019) Evaluation of Random Forest and Ensemble Methods at Predicting Complications Following Cardiac Surgery. In: Riano D, Wilk S & ten Teije A (eds.) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: 17th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2019, Poznan, Poland, June 26–29, 2019, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS volume 11526. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 376-385. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21642-9_48


Book Chapter

McGee-Lennon M, Bouamrane M, Grieve E, O’Donnell CA, O’Connor S, Agbakoba R, Devlin AM, Barry S, Bikker A, Finch T & Mair FS (2017) A Flexible Toolkit for Evaluating Person-Centred Digital Health and Wellness at Scale. In: Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol 482. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 105-118. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41652-6_11


Edited Proceedings

(2017) Preventing Frail and Elderly Hospital Admissions: Developing an Evaluation Framework for the "Closer to Home" Quality Improvement Programme in NHS Forth Valley. DH '17: International Conference on Digital Health, London United Kingdom, 02.07.2017-05.07.2017. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3079452.3079481


Article

Lennon MR, Bouamrane M, Devlin AM, O'Connor S, O'Donnell C, Chetty U, Agbakoba R, Bikker A, Grieve E, Finch T, Watson N, Wyke S & Mair FS (2017) Readiness for Delivering Digital Health at Scale: Lessons From a Longitudinal Qualitative Evaluation of a National Digital Health Innovation Program in the United Kingdom. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19 (2), Art. No.: e42. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.6900


Article

Agbakoba R, McGee-Lennon M, Bouamrane M, Watson N & Mair FS (2016) Implementation factors affecting the large-scale deployment of digital health and well-being technologies: A qualitative study of the initial phases of the ‘Living-It-Up’ programme. Health Informatics Journal, 22 (4), pp. 867-877. https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458215594651


Article

Mort A, Eadie L, Regan L, Macaden A, Heaney D, Bouamrane M, Rushworth G & Wilson P (2016) Combining transcranial ultrasound with intelligent communication methods to enhance the remote assessment and management of stroke patients: Framework for a technology demonstrator. Health Informatics Journal, 22 (3), pp. 691-701. https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458215580353


Article

Devlin AM, McGee-Lennon M, O’Donnell CA, Bouamrane M, Agbakoba R, O’Connor S, Grieve E, Finch T, Wyke S, Watson N, Browne S, Mair FS & the “dallas” evaluation team (2016) Delivering digital health and well-being at scale: lessons learned during the implementation of the dallas program in the United Kingdom. JAMIA, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 23 (1), pp. 48-59. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocv097


Book Chapter

O'Connor S, Mair FS, McGee-Lennon M, Bouamrane M & O'Donnell K (2015) Engaging in large-scale digital health technologies and services. What factors hinder recruitment?. In: Cornet R, Stoicu-Tivadar L, Horbst A, Parra Calderon CL, Andersen SK & Hercigonja M (eds.) Digital Healthcare Empowering Europeans. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, vol 210. IOS Press, pp. 306 - 310. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-512-8-306


Book Chapter

Agbakoba R, McGee-Lennon M, Bouamrane M, Watson N & Mair F (2015) Implementing a National Scottish Digital Health & Wellbeing Service at Scale: A Qualitative Study of Stakeholders' Views. In: Sarkar IN, Georgiou A & Mazzoncini de Azevedo Marques P (eds.) MEDINFO 2015: eHealth-enabled Health. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Volume 216. IOS Press, pp. 487 - 491. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-564-7-487


Edited Proceedings

(2011) University of Glasgow at Medical Records Track 2011: Experiments with Terrier. Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) Proceedings - NIST. Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, 15.11.2011-18.11.2011. Maryland: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). https://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec20/papers/uogTr.medical.update.pdf


Edited Proceedings

(2011) Understanding the implementation & integration of remote & tele-health services … an overview of Normalization Process Theory. 5th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, 23.05.2011-26.05.2011. New York: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2011.246039


Conference Paper (published)

Bouamrane M, Macdonald C, Ounis I & Mair F (2011) Protocol-Driven Searches for Medical and Health-Sciences Systematic Reviews. In: Amati G & Crestani F (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval Theory. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 6931. Third International Conference, ICTIR 2011, Bertinoro, Italy, 12.09.2011-14.09.2011. Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 188-200. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23318-0_18


Conference Paper (published)

Bouamrane M, Rector A & Hurrell M (2010) Experience of Using OWL Ontologies for Automated Inference of Routine Pre-operative Screening Tests. In: Patel-Schneider PF, Pan Y, Hitzler P, Mika P, Zhang L, Pan JZ, Horrocks I & Glimm B (eds.) The Semantic Web – ISWC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 6497. 9th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2010, Shanghai, China, 07.11.2010-11.11.2010. Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 50-65. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17749-1_4


Conference Paper (published)

Bouamrane M, Rector A & Hurrell M (2009) Semi-automatic Generation of a Patient Preoperative Knowledge-Base from a Legacy Clinical Database. In: Meersman R, Dillon T & Herrero P (eds.) 'On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems conference: OTM 2009.. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 5871. Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, IS, and ODBASE 2009, Vilamoura, Portugal, 01.11.2009-06.11.2009. Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 1224-1237. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05151-7_34


Conference Paper (published)

Bouamrane M, Rector A & Hurrell M (2009) A Hybrid Architecture for a Preoperative Decision Support System Using a Rule Engine and a Reasoner on a Clinical Ontology. In: Pollares A & Swift T (eds.) Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5837. Third International Conference, RR 2009, Chantilly, VA, 25.10.2009-26.10.2009. Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 242-253. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05082-4_17


Conference Paper (published)

Bouamrane M, Rector A & Hurrell M (2008) Ontology-Driven Adaptive Medical Information Collection System. In: An A, Matwin S, Ras ZW & Slezak D (eds.) Foundations of Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2008). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 4994. International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Toronto, 20.05.2008-23.05.2008. Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 574-584. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68123-6_62


Conference Paper (published)

Bouamrane M & Luz S (2006) Navigating Multimodal Meeting Recordings with the Meeting Miner. In: Legind Larsen H, Pasi G, Ortiz-Arroyo D, Andreasen T & Christiansen H (eds.) Flexible Query Answering Systems.. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 4027. 7th International Conference, FQAS 2006, Milan, 07.06.2006-10.06.2006. Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 356-367. https://doi.org/10.1007/11766254_30


Conference Paper (published)

Luz S, Bouamrane M & Masoodian M (2006) Gathering a corpus of multimodal computer-mediated meetings with focus on text and audio interaction. In: Proceedings of The fifth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006. The fifth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006, Genoa, 22.05.2006-28.05.2006. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 6. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/510_pdf.pdf


Conference Paper (published)

Luz S & Bouamrane M (2006) Exploring the Structure of Media Stream Interactions for Multimedia Browsing. In: Detyniecki M, Jose JM, Nurnberger A & Rijsbergen CJ (eds.) Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval: User, Context, and Feedback. Lecture Notes in Computing Science (LNCS), 3877. Third International Workshop, AMR 2005, Glasgow, 28.07.2005-29.07.2005. Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 79-90. https://doi.org/10.1007/11670834_7


Conference Paper (published)

Bouamrane M, Luz S, Masoodian M & King D (2005) Supporting Remote Collaboration Through Structured Activity Logging. In: Zhuge H & Fox GC (eds.) Grid and Cooperative Computing - GCC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 3795. Grid and Cooperative Computing - GCC 2005, Beijing, 30.11.2005-03.12.2005. Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 1096-1107. https://doi.org/10.1007/11590354_132


Edited Proceedings

(2005) RECOLED: A GROUP-AWARE COLLABORATIVE TEXT EDITOR FOR CAPTURING DOCUMENT HISTORY. 2005 IADIS International Conference on WWW / Internet, Lisbon, Portugal, 19.10.2005-22.10.2005. IADIS - International Association for Development of the Information Society. https://www.iadisportal.org/wwwinternet-2005-proceedings


Conference Paper (published)

Bouamrane M, King D, Luz S & Masoodian M (2004) A Framework for Collaborative Writing with Recording and Post-Meeting Retrieval Capabilities. In: Special issue on the 6th International Workshop on Collaborative Editing Systems. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2004), Chicago, USA, 06.11.2004-10.11.2004. IEEE Distributed Systems Online. https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/1701/a%20framework%20for%20collaborative%20writing%20with%20recording.pdf?sequence=1


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