Projeto PRR

Sumário

The prospective employee is expected to work as an Assistant Professor in the field of Medical Informatics. The employee is expected to work in research and teaching activities at the Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences (MEDCIDS) of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. In particular, the employee is expected to work on technology advances regarding health information systems development, co-development of mHealth solutions safeguarding interoperability through standards development and adoption promoting information reusability and quality assurance principles throughout. The employee is expected to have knowledge and experience in doing research and teaching in these fields. In addition, the employee is expectedto have a Computer Science background, knowledge and experience in Information Systems design and development; he should be familiar with several programming paradigms.MEDCIDS has a relevant research and teaching track record in the Medical Informatics field. This is indicated by (i) the high number of studies published by its members in this field, (ii) the participation in funded scientific projects focused on Information availability, interoperability pursuit and mHealth development, (iii) the involvement of some of its members in standards development organizations such as HL7, (iv) and by the participation in technology transfer and services provision activities (involving public, private, national or international entities. This research activity is done in close connection with the Associate Laboratory RISE (Health Research Network). In fact, Thematic Line 4 of RISE is dedicated to digital transformation, having as its scope “development and assessment of methods and technologies to improve biomedical sciences and healthcare”.MEDCIDS has also displayed a vibrant teaching activity in the Medical Informatics field, with contents on Health Informatics challenges being one of the cornerstones of the Doctoral Programme in Health Data Science and of the Master’s Degree in Medical Informatics (all these programmes are hosted at MEDCIDS). Topics on Interoperability and mHealth approaches will also be of key importance to the BSc course in Digital Health in Biomedical Innovation, particularly its branch of Health Information Systems and Telehealth. Of note, several of the partners of this BSc course correspond to public or private entities with whom MEDCIDS has collaborated in technology transfer or service provision activities. Given this background and the need to further develop research and teaching activities in this field, hiring an Assistant Professor in the Medical Informatics area is necessary.