Philip Scott

Programme Director
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Background

Professor Philip Scott worked in the NHS for 15 years, gaining his MSc in Health Information Systems from the University of Portsmouth in 2003 and completing his PhD there in 2009. He became a Senior Lecturer at University of Portsmouth and was promoted to Reader in Health Informatics in 2019. He joined UWTSD in 2022 and was appointed Professor of Digital Health & Care in 2023. 

Philip is Deputy Editor of BMJ Health & Care Informatics, Vice President of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), Board member of HL7 UK and Past Chair of the British Computer Society (BCS) Faculty of Health & Care. He was a non-executive Board member of the Professional Record Standards Body and member of the informatics committee of the Royal College of Radiologists. 

Philip’s extensive operational, managerial and research experience help to inform his teaching in our MSc Digital Transformation and his PhD supervision. 

Specialist Subjects

  • Healthcare data interoperability
  • Clinical decision support
  • Mixed methods research
  • Healthcare technology evaluation

Professional and/or Research Experience

Philip has carried out research in clinical handovers, time impacts of electronic health records, information standards, clinical guidelines and system usability.

He was a co-author of the first version of the International Patient Summary specification from HL7.

He is currently leading work with NICE on making their clinical guidelines computable and concluding a project evaluating a decision support app to optimise hospital anti-microbial prescribing.

Philip's PhD students have studied electronic health record deployment in developing countries, design features for chronic disease apps, DevOps in the public sector and hospital e-prescribing to support anti-microbial stewardship.

Qualifications

  • MSc in Health Information Systems, University of Portsmouth
  • PhD, University of Portsmouth

Languages Spoken

English and rudimentary Welsh.

Professional Membership or Roles

Leading Practitioner, Federation for Informatics Professionals
Chartered IT Professional, British Computer Society

Academic Teaching

External Recognition or Rewards

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Fellow of Health Level Seven
Fellow of the British Computer Society

Link to Orcid Profile

ORCID Research profile

Professional Publications

  • See https: //repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/view/authors/f81d8f0a63debf38c6d4f37f759122ad.html