Abstract: The increasing amount of health-related data available calls for new ways of connecting and analysing them as a unified set, despite their heterogeneity. The interoperability of healthcare data is a current research and clinical challenge; especially with the investigation of the reuse of routine clinical data for an integrated approach towards clinical practice and research. Current efforts in the field are focusing on innovative approaches to healthcare data linkage and interoperability, in order to establish how integrated healthcare information can give us a better understanding to the whole patient healthcare provision pathway. This seminar will discuss the current challenges of technical, semantic and integrated care interoperability in the context of clinical data connectivity, as a way to provide meaningful use of healthcare data between systems, organisations and users.

Bio: Prof. Arvanitis's research interests span the areas of biomedical engineering, neuroimaging & health informatics. His neuroimaging work includes magnetic resonance imaging & spectroscopy for childhood brain tumour characterisation, where he has developed novel pattern recognition, computational models & quantification of in vivo and in vitro magnetic resonance spectroscopy & spectroscopic imaging. This research has been done in collaboration with the Institute of Child Health, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, where he holds an honorary post. Prof. Arvanitis heads the Biomedical Informatics, Imaging & Healthcare Technologies Research Group. He is an affiliate Professor to Warwick Medical School; & Digital Theme Co-Director, West Midlands AHSN. Prof. Arvanitis received his RT (BSc) degree (medical radiological technology) in 1990, from the Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece; & DPhil (biomedical engineering) in 1997 from University of Sussex. His postdoctoral work at University of Sussex included a lab director/research fellow post at the Trafford Centre for Medical Research and a full-time lectureship in the School of Cognitive and Computer Sciences. In 1998, he joined the School of Electronic, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Birmingham as a full-time Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and subsequently Reader in Biomedical Informatics, Signals and Systems. Prof. Arvanitis’s research is supported by the EPSRC, EU-FP7 programme, Dept. of Health and other foundations.

Further Details: Refreshments will be available from 3pm with the seminar itself running 3.30 - 4.30pm. The seminar is free of charge and open to all, however places are limited so please book your place by contacting sallyann.edwards@warwick.ac.uk