Kathrin Cresswell
Senior Lecturer | Chief Scientist Office Chancellor’s Fellow | Director of Innovation
- Usher Institute
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
Address
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Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh (primary)
Old Medical School
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
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Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh (secondary)
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9 Little France Road
Edinburgh BioQuarter - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4UX
Background
Kathrin Cresswell is a social scientist with extensive experience of conducting formative evaluations of digitally enabled change and improvement programmes in healthcare. She has consulted for the World Health Organization and Harvard Medical School and has received the Yvonne Carter Award for Outstanding New Researcher and has been an invited speaker at the European Parliament. She has over 100 peer-reviewed publications in international academic journals and almost £30 million research grant funding. She is currently Director of Innovation at the Usher Institute at The University of Edinburgh, Co -Director of External Engagement on an EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre for Biomedical Artificial Intelligence, and Module Lead on the NHS Digital Academy teaching over 300 national and international health information technology leaders about Technology Strategy and Health Information Systems Implementation.
CV
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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
Co-Investigator on 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)
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)
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)
2018-2019 NHS England. ePrescribing Toolkit. £39,000 (PI: Aziz Sheikh, Edinburgh)
2018-2023 NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research: Development and evaluation of a complex ePrescribing-based Antimicrobial Stewardship (ePAMS+) intervention for hospitals. £2.5M (PI: Aziz Sheikh, Edinburgh)
2019-2024 Co-director of External Engagement. EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence. £8.3M (PI: Guido Sanguinetti, Edinburgh)
2021-2024 Health Education England. NHS Digital Academy. 5M (PI: Ara Darzi, Imperial).
Principal Investigator on Grants
2014-2015 Edinburgh & Lothians Health Foundation: Electronic medicines management systems in NHS Scotland. £10,000
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
2017-2021 NHS England. National Evaluation of Global Digital Exemplar hospitals. £1.5M (co-PI
with Robin Williams, Edinburgh)
2018-2019 Wellcome Trust – The University of Edinburgh. Institutional Strategic Support Fund. Accelerating technological innovation in healthcare – lessons from national and international innovation hubs. £4920
2018 Medical Research Council Proximity to Discovery (P2D). Robotics in healthcare: current issues and future trends. £6030 (co-PI with Hajar Mozaffar, Edinburgh)
2018 Medical Research Council Proximity to Discovery (P2D). Exploring the innovation landscape for health & technology series: Technology for community health. £5397 (co-PI with Steve Earl, Edinburgh)
2018 Medical Research Council Proximity to Discovery (P2D). Exploring the innovation landscape for health & technology series: Internet of Things (IOT) and Health. £5397 (co-PI with Steve Earl, Edinburgh)
2018 Medical Research Council Proximity to Discovery (P2D). Exploring the innovation landscape for health & technology series: Mobility and active healthcare. £5397 (co-PI with Steve Earl, Edinburgh)
2018-2019 Digital Health Institute. Creating and applying an evaluation framework for the National Decision Support Programme in Scotland. £47,652
2020 Innovate UK. MyDiabetesMyWay - Investigating Impact in India. £90,000
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Promoting inter-organisational knowledge sharing: A qualitative evaluation of England's Global Digital Exemplar and Fast Follower Programme
In:
PLoS ONE, vol. 16, pp. e0255220
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255220
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Understanding Public Perceptions of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Social Media Analysis
In:
Journal of medical Internet research, vol. 23, pp. e26618
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/26618
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Inter-organisational knowledge sharing to establish digital health learning ecosystems: Qualitative evaluation of a national digital health transformation programme in England
In:
Journal of medical Internet research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/23372
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Managing Pandemic Responses with Health Informatics – Challenges for Assessing Digital Health Technologies: A Joint Position Paper from the IMIA Technology Assessment & Quality Development in Health Informatics Working Group and EFMI Working Group for Assessment of Health Information Systems
In:
IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1726490
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Using Blueprints to promote interorganizational knowledge transfer in digital health initiatives—a qualitative exploration of a national change program in English hospitals
(9 pages)
In:
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocab020
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
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) -
Using cloud technology in health care during the COVID-19 pandemic
In:
The Lancet Digital Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(20)30291-0
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Bridging the growing digital divide between NHS England's hospitals
In:
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0141076820974998
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)
Invited speaker
Invited International Presentations
- Cresswell K. Formative evaluation of health technology innovations - Independent Evaluation of the Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) Programme. ROSE Graduate Program, May 2021, Osnabruck, Germany.
- Cresswell K. Reconceptualising the digital maturity of health systems. Invited presentation at 4Words 2020 - Le parole dell'innovazione in sanità, 29th January 2020, Rome.
- Cresswell K. Healthcare robotics – a qualitative exploration of key challenges and future directions. Invited presentation at the European Parliament, 19th February 2019, Brussels, Belgium.
- Cresswell K. Technology Strategy and Health Information Systems Implementation. Invited presentation at Harvard Medical School, 5th February 2019, Boston Massachusetts, USA.
- Barber N, Cresswell K, Robertson A, Sheikh A, Takian A. Insights and lessons from an independent, longitudinal, and socio-technical evaluation of the implementation and adoption of a national electronic health records system (NHS CRS) in hospitals in England. Panel Discussion in Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, 12th-14th June 2011, Seattle, USA.
- Cresswell K, Roberston A, Sheikh A. Lessons learned from England’s national electronic health record implementation: implications for the international community. Oral presentation at ACM Special Interest Group on Health Informatics, 28th-30th January 2012, Miami, USA.
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