AUT - Dave Parry

Dr Dave Parry

Senior Lecturer and Director AURA Lab

Phone: +64 9 921 9999 xtn 8918

Email: dave.parry@aut.ac.nz

Physical Address:

School of Computing and Mathematical sciences

Room WT408

AUT Tower

Wakefield Street

Auckland

New Zealand

Postal Address:

School of Computing and Mathematical sciences

Private bag 92006

Auckland 1142

New Zealand

Address for blogs:
  http://auralab.blogspot.com/


Links to relevant web pages:
Aura Lab :http://elena.aut.ac.nz/homepages/aura_rfid/

Qualifications:

BSc. (Hons), Physics, Imperial College, London University, 1984
MSc., Medical Electronics and Physics, St Bartholomew’s Medical College, London University, 1986
MSc., Computer Science, University of Otago, 2000
PhD, Computer and Information Sciences (Title: “Fuzzy ontology and Intelligent systems for discovery of useful medical information ”), Auckland University of Technology, 2006

Memberships and Affiliations:

Member IEEE, ACM and UKCHIP

Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Informatics

Editorial Board Member for International Journal of Health Information Systems and Informatics.

Editorial Board Member International Journal of Advanced Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Editorial Board Member for the Open Medical Informatics Journal

Editorial Board Member for International Journal of Health Information Systems and Informatics.

Editor-in–Chief, Health Care Informatics Review Online

Chair of Scientific Programme Committee, Health Informatics New Zealand Conference 2009/10

Reviewer for Medinfo 2010, FUZZ-IEEE and ACM Computing Reviews

Reviewer for IEEE Networks and IEEE Communications Magazines

Advisory Board Member of the RFID in HealthCare consortium

 

Biography:

Originally from Wales, I've lived in New Zealand for the last 16 years. I started work as a Medical Physicist and moved across to software development for healthcare and non-healthcare applications. I worked at the Department of Information Science, University  of Otago 1997-200 on the world's first online teaching course in health informatics. From 2000 I've worked at AUT initially as a software developer and researcher in online learning and subsequently as  an academic. in 2006 I spent three Months in Bhutan, working on a charity-funded project at the JDW national referral hospital

I also worked at the University of Portsmouth UK on their Telecare knowledge network project in 2006/7

Back in New Zealand I became director of the AUT RFID applications laboratory (AURA), and a senior research lecturer.

Teaching Areas:

Ubiquitous computing

Information Science

Health Informatics

Autoidentification and RFID

Research areas:

My main research interests include; Health Informatics and ehealth, RFID and applications, Fuzzy Ontologies and the Semantic Web and ubiquitous computing and the developing world.

See  recently supervised dissertations:

Deriving activity from RFID detection records in an assisted living context	Zheng, Michael	2008
Map compression for a RFID-based two-dimensional indoor navigation system	Tsai, Tsung-Chun	2008
How will RFID influence the retail environment in New Zealand?: an investigation of the views of the retail sector	Feng, Xiangnan	2009
An investigation of algorithms to clean RFID data for activity monitoring of the elderly	Bai, Matthew	2009

Research Summary:

I am the founding director of the AUT RFID laboratory (AURA). One  project is running on the use of RFID devices to track activity in operating theatres – in conjunction with the University  of Auckland. There is another project on the use of RFID to support the visually impaired. Other projects include methods to clean RFID data  and compress data to allow distributed storage of data such as maps on tags.

 In the Health Informatics area I am working on the use of Smart cards and memory sticks for storing data and assisting with national clinical collaborations. I was involved in the development of the Health Information security framework.

Between March and May 2006 I worked on a Charity project in Bhutan in collaboration with the Royal Government of Bhutan, University of Auckland, UNICEF and the funders the Magee Family. This project involves development of a web-based series of protocols and a perinatal database to improve maternity outcomes, and is continuing.

My PhD work was on the development and assessment of a fuzzy –ontology based system to support medical information retrieval. I have further developed this approach, looking at the application to context-aware information systems. I am working on crowdsourcing applications to develop this approach. This will initially be used in for the automated analysis of medical documents.

Current Research Projects:

"Magic bag" for support of the visually impaired using RFID

Activity monitoring and analysis in the operating theatre with active and Passive RFID

Fuzzy Ontology creation and use, in the medical domain

Ubiquitous healthcare

Publications:

Publications in the last 5 years

Journal Papers

1. J. I. Westbrook, M. I. Rob, A. Woods, and D. Parry, "Errors in the administration of intravenous medications in hospital and the role of correct procedures and nurse experience," BMJ Quality & Safety, June 20, 2011 .
2. D.T. Parry & A. Narayanan “RFID enabled smartcards as a context-aware personal health node” . Health Care and Informatics Review Online Vol14  2010
3.   Houliston, B., Parry, D. T., Webster, C. S., & Merry, A. F. “Interference with the operation of medical devices resulting from the use of radio frequency identification technology”. New Zealand Medical Journal, 122(1297).
4.   Parry, D.T., E.C. Parry, A. Chebi, P. Dorji, and P. Stone, “Open source software – a key  component of E-health in Developing nations.” International Journal of Health Information Systems and Informatics, 2008 3(3): p. 1-15.
5.  J. Symonds and Parry. D., "Using RFID to track and trace high value products: the case of city healthcare," Journal of Cases on Information Technology, vol. 10, pp. 1-13, 2008.
6. Symonds J., Parry D., and Briggs J., "An RFID-based System for Assisted Living: Challenges and Solutions," The Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare, vol. 5, pp. 387–398, 2007.
7.   D. Parry, J. Symonds, and J. Briggs, "RFID solutions to support home telecare information flows." Health Care and Informatics Review Online. Vol 11  2007
8.  P. Basrur and D. Parry, "Where are my Glasses?: An Object Location System within the Home.," Bulletin of Applied Computing and Information Technology vol. 4, 2006
9. D. T. Parry, "Evaluation of a fuzzy ontology based medical information system," International journal of Health Information Systems and Informatics, vol. 1, pp. 40-49, 2006.

Peer reviewed books, book chapters, books edited
i.    D.T. Parry and J. Symonds, “RFID and assisted living for the elderly,” Auto-Identification and Ubiquitous Computing Applications: RFID and Smart Technologies for Information Convergence., D. T. Parry, et al., eds., IGI Global, 2009, pp. 119-136
ii.    Parry, D., Evaluation of a tool to Enhance Searching for useful medical information on the internet, in Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics: Research and Practices, J. Tan, Editor. 2008, Information Science Publishing: Hershey. p. 330-343.
iii.    Parry, D., Coding and Messaging Systems for Women's Health Informatics in Medical Informatics in Obstetrics and Gynecology, D.T. Parry and E.C. Parry, Editors. 2008, Medical Information Science Reference: Hershey. p. 38-52.
iv.    Parry, D., Computerised Decision Support for Women's Health Informatics in Medical Informatics in Obstetrics and Gynecology, D.T. Parry and E.C. Parry, Editors. 2008, Medical Information Science Reference: Hershey. p. 302-314.
v.    Petrova, K. and D. Parry, Mobile business trends in New Zealand, in Trends in Mobile Technology and Business in the Asia-Pacific Region (Asian Studies: Contemporary Issues and Trends), Y. Yoo, J.-N. Lee, and C. Rowley, Editors. 2008, Chandos Publishing: Oxford.
vi.    Parry, D. T., & Parry, E. C. (Eds.). (2008). Medical Informatics in Obstetrics and Gynecology (1 ed.): Medical Information Science Reference.
vii.    D. Parry, "Fuzzy Ontologies for Information retrieval on the WWW," in Fuzzy Logic and the Semantic Web (Capturing Intelligence), E. Sanchez, Ed.: Elsevier 2006, pp. 21-48

Refereed conference proceedings

i.    B. Houliston, D.T Parry, A.F. Merry “Towards Automated Detection of Anaesthetic Activity” to be  presented at MEDINFO 2010
ii.    Parry, D. T. & Tsai, T. C. (2010) Crowdsourcing techniques to create a fuzzy subset of SNOMED CT for semantic tagging of medical documents. FUZZ-IEEE 2010/ WCCI. Barcelona.
iii.    B. Houliston, D.T Parry et al., “TADAA: Enabling Continuous Improvement for Anaesthetists,” Proc. Health Informatics New Zealand, HINZ, 2009.
iv.    Parry, D., H. Jennings, J. Symonds, K. Ravi, and M. Wright, “Supporting the visually impaired using RFID technology”, in Health Informatics New Zealand Forum. 2008, HINZ: Rotorua.
v.    Parry, D., B. Houliston, and J. Symonds, “RFID-Based Self-Description to Support Low-Cost Telecare and Assistance At Home”, in The 13th International Symposium for Health Information Management & Research (ISHIMR). 2008, Massey University: Auckland.
vi.    Houliston, B., A. Merry, and D. Parry,  “Sensors and Insensibility: Monitoring Anaesthetic Activity with RFID”, in Health Informatics New Zealand Forum. 2008, HINZ: Rotorua.
vii.    Iluyemi, C.J. Fitch, D.T. Parry, and J. S. Briggs, " Health Information System for Community Based Health Workers: A Case for Mobile and Wireless Technologies,," in IST-Africa, Maputo Mozambique, 2007.
viii.    Smith, G., D. Parry, D. Prytherch, S. Farrell, and N. Hirsch, (2008) Validation of a novel radar-based breathing rate measurement device using a human manikin. Resuscitation, 2008. 77(Supplement 1): p. S41-S42 (POSTER)
ix.    Smith, G., D. Parry, S. Farrell, L. Woodward, D. Prytherch, S. (2008)Harrison, and N. Hirsch, Validation of a novel radar-based breathing rate measurement device in human volunteers. Resuscitation, 2008. 77(Supplement 1): p. S14-S14.(POSTER)
x.    K. McPherson, D. Parry, and J. Symonds, "Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for Assisted Living:  Testing the Aura Object Location (AOL) Model," in 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia., 2007.
xi.    A.Chebbi, E. C. Parry, and D. T. Parry, "Development of a Web Based Protocol System for Obstetric Care in a Less Developed Country," in Health Informatics New Zealand 2006, Auckland New Zealand, 2006
xii.    D. Parry, " Use of Kolmogorov Distance Identification of Web Page Authorship, Topic and Domain," in Open Source Web Information Retrieval, Compiegne, France, 2005, pp. 47-51.
xiii.    D. T. Parry, "An electronic information browser for medical applications," in Health Informatics New Zealand 2005, Auckland, New Zealand, 2005.

 

 

Awards:

2005 ISAT Travel award ($4000)
2006 Gained Magee Family funding for Bhutan development project ($750,000)
2008 Member of the Ministry of Health expert Committee that created the
Health Information Security Framework

2008 New Zealand invited representative for the APEC E-health International Seminar, Seoul, Korea
2008 Awarded Faculty contestable research grant ($20,000)
2009 – Awarded TEC Summer studentship ($5000) for development of INTEL WISP  devices for medical use. Member of the INTEL WISP academic challenge.
2010 Awarded BuildIT Career development travel award ($4000) and BuildIT consortium development award ($1200)