Kathrin Cresswell
Senior Lecturer | Chief Scientist Office Chancellor’s Fellow | Director of Innovation

- Usher Institute
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh (primary)
Old Medical School
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
- Street
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Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh (secondary)
NINE
9 Little France Road
Edinburgh BioQuarter - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4UX
Background
Kathrin Cresswell is a health psychologist and experienced social scientist who has worked in the field of clinical informatics for over a decade. She has published around 80 scientific papers in this area in international peer-reviewed journals. During her career, she has collaborated with international leaders on a number of large projects and consulted for the World Health Organization and Harvard Medical School. She is currently holding a prestigious Fellowship from the Scottish Government and a Chancellor’s Fellowship from the University of Edinburgh to investigate future strategic directions in health information technology.
Qualifications
BSc Psychology
MSc Health Psychology
PhD Medical Informatics
Responsibilities & affiliations
Member of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland
Recipient of the 2011 Yvonne Carter Award for Outstanding New Researcher
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
Kathrin is co-investigator on the NHS Digital Academy and is happy to take on PhD students in the area of health information technology innovation.
Research summary
Kathrin's core research interests are: health information technology, evaluation, sociotechnical, qualitative methods, healthcare innovation and information systems.
Knowledge exchange
Kathrin's research findings have been shared with policy makers to assist in policy decision making. Her work has also been instrumental to the development of an ePrescribing Toolkit that is now used widely by the NHS.
Affiliated research centres
Project activity
Kathrin has been involved in a range of national evaluations of large health information technology programmes including electronic health records and ePrescribing systems.
Current project grants
Role: Co-investigator
- 2013-2014: Chief Scientist Office: Developing a UK taxonomy and framework for facilitating health policy deliberations on maximising secondary uses of healthcare data: a mixed methods study. £118,000 (PI: Aziz Sheikh, Edinburgh)
- 2016-2017: Digital Health Institute. Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Project (AQuA). £44,000 (PI: Daniel Turner)
- 2017: Chief Scientist Office: Identifying strategies to overcome critical roadblocks towards provisioning of near-real time healthcare and administrative data to create a learning health system for asthma in Scotland. £20,000 (PI: Aziz Sheikh, Edinburgh)
- 2017-2022: National Institute for Health Research. NIHR Global Respiratory Health (RESPIRE) Unit. £7M (PI: Aziz Sheikh, Edinburgh)
- 2017-2021: NHS England. Digital Health Academy. £6M (PI: Ara Darzi, Imperial)
Principal Investigator
- 2015-2018: Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Post-doctoral Fellowship: Envisioning the next generation of integrated health and care information technology infrastructure: an interdisciplinary investigation of stakeholder perspectives, technological feasibility, and implications for policy. £172,645
Past project grants
- 2008-2011: NHS Connecting for Health Evaluation Programme: An evaluation of the adoption of the NHS Care Record in secondary care. £1.8M (PI: Aziz Sheikh, Edinburgh)
- 2008-2011: NHS Connecting for Health Evaluation Programme: An evaluation of the effect of IT on interactions between healthcare workers and patients. £0.45M (PI: Hilary Pinnock, Edinburgh)
- 2013-2014: Chief Scientist Office: Developing a UK taxonomy and framework for facilitating health policy deliberations on maximising secondary uses of healthcare data: a mixed methods study. £118,000 (PI: Aziz Sheikh, Edinburgh)
- 2014-2015: Edinburgh & Lothians Health Foundation: Electronic medicines management systems in NHS Scotland. £10,000
- 2011-2016: NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research: Investigating the implementation, adoption and effectiveness of ePrescribing systems in English hospitals: a mixed methods national evaluation. £2M (PI: Aziz Sheikh, Edinburgh)
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Using Blueprints to promote inter-organisational knowledge transfer in digital health initiatives: A qualitative exploration of a national change programme in English hospitals
In:
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Identifying strategies to overcome roadblocks to utilising near real-time healthcare and administrative data to create a Scotland-wide learning health system
In:
Health Informatics Journal, vol. 27
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458220977579
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Opportunities and Challenges Surrounding the Use of Data From Wearable Sensor Devices in Health Care: Qualitative Interview Study
In:
Journal of medical Internet research, vol. 22, pp. e19542
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/19542
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Formative independent evaluation of a digital change programme in the English National Health Service: Study protocol for a longitudinal qualitative study
In:
BMJ Open, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041275
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Accelerating Innovation in Health Care: Insights From a Qualitative Inquiry Into United Kingdom and United States Innovation Centers
In:
Journal of medical Internet research, vol. 22, pp. e19644
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/19644
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Accelerating innovation in healthcare – insights from a qualitative enquiry into U.K. and U.S. innovation centres
In:
Journal of medical Internet research, vol. 22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/19644
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Can disinfection robots reduce the risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in healthcare and educational settings?
In:
Journal of medical Internet research, vol. 22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/20896
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Correction: Online Guide for Electronic Health Evaluation Approaches: Systematic Scoping Review and Concept Mapping Study
In:
Journal of medical Internet research, vol. 22, pp. e23642
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/23642
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Can Robots Improve Testing Capacity for SARS-CoV-2?
In:
Journal of medical Internet research, vol. 22, pp. e20169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/20169
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Online Guide for Electronic Health Evaluation Approaches: Systematic Scoping Review and Concept Mapping Study
In:
Journal of medical Internet research, vol. 22, pp. e17774
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/17774
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Organiser
Kathrin has been involved in the organisation of a number of international conferences, among them:
- ePrescribing: Looking to the future - From implementation and adoption to organisational transformation and patient benefit.
- 24th February 2016, Royal College of General Practitioners, London
- ePrescribing for NHS hospitals: Maximising the opportunities now and in the future.
- 27th October 2014. One Great George Street, London
- Deriving value from hospital electronic prescribing and medicines administration systems to improve safe, effective & person centred care: A Symposium for the health service.
- 17th June 2013, The Royal Society, London
- ePrescribing: Everything you want to know but were afraid to ask! A symposium for the health service.
- 27th March 2012, Birmingham International Conference Centre