2 PhD Scholarship in Health Care Informatics at NTNU, Norway

Closing date: 2010-03-12

The positions are offered by the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI), affiliated with the Norwegian Centre for Electronic Patient Records (NSEP), both at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). NSEP is organised under the Medical Faculty to develop and maintain interdisciplinary research related to health informatics.
Improved use and re-use of health information for patient empowerment, quality improvement and clinical decision support.

A major part of healthcare resources goes into producing digital, textual, heterogeneous, distributed information stored in electronic health records (EHR). This information is primarily used to give care to individuals. Domain complexity and lack of semantics makes this information hard to structure, abstract and analyse. Secondary usage of information to improve quality, effectiveness and patient empowerment is challenging, but required. The fellows will work in projects with the objective to study, develop and evaluate methods for interpreting, analysing, aggregating and presenting record information. A background and interest within data- and text mining, knowledge technology, information analysis, natural language processing, computational linguistics and/or visualisation is required.

Further information on the fellowships may be obtained from Associate Professor Øystein Nytrø, Tel. +47 918 97 606 +47 918 97 606 , e-mail nytroe@idi.ntnu.no or Research Scientist Laura Slaughter, e-mail lauras@idi.tnu.no

Applications are to be submitted electronically through
https://secure.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=64819
Preferably, we want the attachments in one file.

Applications should be marked IME-012-2010.

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