Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Prof. Nilmini Wickramasinghe Ph.D. is Professor and Optus Chair Digital Health at La Trobe University. She is also an honorary research professor at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Her research focuses on the design, development and application of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) to effect superior, patient centric healthcare delivery. She collaborates with leading scholars at various premier healthcare organizations throughout Australasia, the US and Europe. She is well published with more than 300 referred scholarly articles, more than 10 books, numerous book chapters, an encyclopaedia, and a well established funded research track record.
An Investigation Into the Role for Pervasive Technologies to Support Superior Healthcare Delivery
The goal of this proposed study is to focus on how mobile applications and emerging technologies can be utilized to address the challenges faced by healthcare such as escalating cost pressures, an increasing aging population, an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, and a move to a preventive care focus. Integral to these solutions is a patient-centric view in order to satisfy consumer expectations and provide high quality care. Specifically, the aim is to assess the usability, acceptability and functionality of a pervasive technology solution for patients including; patient compliance, patient and professional satisfaction and accuracy/benefits over standard care choices.