Mr Nathan Lea
Work Interests
I am a Senior Research Associate working with the Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) group at CHIME on projects that involve the use of EHR servers in research and clinical care. My research interests include the role of information security in the use of distributed computing for managing healthcare data. I am currently working on a PhD supervised by Professor Dipak Kalra (CHIME, UCL) and Professor Stephen Hailes (Department of Computer Science, UCL): the thesis of the research is that it is possible to construct a knowledge management framework to comprehensively manage policy based controls that govern the release of information from clinical data repositories. One of the results of this work has been the invention of the knowledge management formalism called the Secutype, which underpins a significant part of the proposed framework. I also teach on the Information Law and Governance In Clinical Practice Module of CHIME's Health Informatics MSc.
Teaching and Presentations
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Publications
- Lea N, Knowledge Management in the Protection of Healthcare Data Security Hospital Healthcare Europe 2009, Campden Publishing, 2009
- Austin T, Kalra D, Lea N, Patterson D, Ingram D: Analysis of Clinical Record Data for Anticoagulation Management within an EHR System. The Open Medical Informatics Journal 3, 2009
- Lea NC, Austin T, Hailes S, Kalra D: Expression of Security Policy in Medical Systems for Electronic Healthcare Records, Proceedings of the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Conference 2009, 2009
- Austin T, Sun S, Lea N, Iliffe S, Kalra D, Ingram D, Patterson D: Clinical Benefits of an Embedded Decision Support System in Anticoagulant Control, Proceedings of the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Conference 2009, 2009
- Lea N, Hailes S, Austin T, Kalra D: Knowledge Management for the Protection of Information in Electronic Healthcare Records, Proceedings of the MIE 2008 Conference, 2008
- Ausitn T, Kalra D, Tapuria A, Lea N, Ingram D: Implementation of a Query Interface for a Generic Record Server, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2008
- Lea, NC. Interpres: The Implementation of an Electronic Healthcare Record Application in an Enterprise JavaBean Environment, MSc Dissertation, University College London, 2003
In Progress
- Requirements for the Design of a New Knowledge Management Framework to Protect Sensitive Data in Electronic Healthcare Records
Projects
- The Wellcome Trust / Medical Research Council Databases for HIV: Integration, Collaboration and Engagement (DHICE) Initiative
- The European Commission Seventh Framework Programme project called DebugIT
- The Clinical e-Science Framework, a Medical Research Council project
- The development of systems and standards with the openEHR Foundation
- System development and live deployment within the NHS for the EHR Group's web applications, for example Heartbeat in the Department of Cardiology, Whittington Hospital
- The European Comission Centre of Excellence Semantic Mining Project
Personal History
I received a BA (Hons) in Classics from The Department of Greek and Latin, UCL in 2001. I have worked in the area of IT in healthcare since 1998. In 2002 I enrolled on an MSc Conversion Course with the Department of Computer Science, UCL to formalise my knowledge of computing. During this course, I applied my working and research experience to the study of Health Informatics by completing a dissertation with the EHR group at CHIME. After working in the private software development sector, I joined the EHR group at CHIME as a Research Fellow.
Postal address and contact information
Centre for Health Informatics & Multiprofessional Education
University College Medical School
University College London
4th Floor, Holborn Union Building
The Archway Campus
Highgate Hill
London
ENGLAND
N19 5LW
Phone: 020-7288-3798
Fax: 020-7288-3322 (Please mark FAO: Nathan Lea)
E-mail: n.lea@ucl.ac.uk
