Vaughan Michell

Dr. Vaughan Michell is an Informatics Lecturer and Business Technology Consulting Programme Director within the Informatics Research Centre at Henley Business School. He is an honorary Senior Lecturer in Health Informatics at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. He supervises 4 PhD students in health informatics and has produced papers covering health informatics & semiotics, patient safety, clinical pathways, medical device capability and cognition. Research interests focus on man-machine interaction: semiotics, affordance and human and machine capability, knowledge intensive processes and cognition, device design and invention. Vaughan has a BSc in mechanical engineering from UCL, an MBA from Warwick University and a D.Phil in Robotics Image Processing from Oxford University. Vaughan worked in process and systems design and change engineering as a 6 Sigma black belt at Vosper Thornycroft, Andersen Consulting, Dun and Bradstreet, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and UBS where he started research in knowledge intensive processes. His specialist research areas are health informatics, knowledge intensive processes optimisation and design and innovation informatics related to business technology, and product and process design.

Publications

The Human-IoT Ecosystem: An Approach to Functional Situation Context Classification
The Human-IoT Ecosystem: An Approach to Functional Situation Context Classification
Vaughan Michell, James Olweny. © 2020. 25 pages.
IoT devices offer a cheap and powerful approach to identifying real world states and situations and acting on this real world environment to change these states and the...
The Internet of Things and Opportunities for Pervasive Safety Monitored Health Environments
The Internet of Things and Opportunities for Pervasive Safety Monitored Health Environments
Vaughan Michell. © 2017. 39 pages.
This chapter discusses the opportunities for new ubiquitous computing technologies, with concentration on the Internet of Things (IoT), to improve patient safety and quality. The...
The Human-IoT Ecosystem: An Approach to Functional Situation Context Classification
The Human-IoT Ecosystem: An Approach to Functional Situation Context Classification
Vaughan Michell, James Olweny. © 2017. 26 pages.
IoT devices offer a cheap and powerful approach to identifying real world states and situations and acting on this real world environment to change these states and the...
Handbook of Research on Patient Safety and Quality Care through Health Informatics
Handbook of Research on Patient Safety and Quality Care through Health Informatics
Vaughan Michell, Deborah J. Rosenorn-Lanng, Stephen R. Gulliver, Wendy Currie. © 2014. 486 pages.
Medical and health activities can greatly benefit from the effective use of health informatics. By capturing, processing, and disseminating information to the correct systems and...
Workarounds: Risk or Benevolence for Patient Safety?
Workarounds: Risk or Benevolence for Patient Safety?
Nada Nadhrah, Vaughan Michell. © 2014. 38 pages.
Patient safety and the quality of clinical interventions rely on the application of best practices in clinical processes to achieve clinical and service specifications for...
The Internet of Things and Opportunities for Pervasive Safety Monitored Health Environments
The Internet of Things and Opportunities for Pervasive Safety Monitored Health Environments
Vaughan Michell. © 2014. 39 pages.
This chapter discusses the opportunities for new ubiquitous computing technologies, with concentration on the Internet of Things (IoT), to improve patient safety and quality. The...