Sabine Koch

Professor and Chair, HIC - Health Informatics Centre

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Since 2008, I am the Director of HIC and the first professor in health informatics at Karolinska Institutet.

I hold both a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in medical informatics from the University of Heidelberg. I got into the field of medical informatics in 1988 which I five years later combined with human-computer interaction and I enjoy working in this cross-disciplinary field since then. My early research was in dental informatics, especially dental imaging and IT supported integrated care concepts for dental offices. I explored these concepts further and applied them for collaborative work using mobile tools for homecare of the aging population.

I have a broad interest in health informatics including models for cooperative care, human factors/ usability, evaluation of information systems, consumer informatics as well as evidence-based decision support and information visualization for enhanced decision making. I strive for combining structure with flexibility and technology design with health care and consumer needs aiming to build the theoretical basis needed to fully understand the socio-technical environment in order to be able to enhance health service delivery.

To drive our field forward, I am engaged in a number of activities both locally in Sweden and around the world, currently acting as:

  • President of the Swedish Federation for Medical Informatics (SFMI)
  • Incoming treasurer of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
  • Swedish representative in the General Assembly of IMIA
  • Co-chair of the IMIA WG on Smart Homes and Ambient Assisted Living

Selected publications

Hägglund M, Chen R, Koch S.

Modeling shared care plans using CONTsys and openEHR to support shared home care of elderly.

J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011 Jan 1;18(1):66-9

Koch S.

Healthy ageing supported by technology - a cross-disciplinary research challenge.

Inform Health Soc Care. 2010 Sep-Dec; 35(3-4):81-91

Hägglund M, Scandurra I, Koch S.

Scenarios to Capture Work Processes in Shared Home Care - from Analysis to Application.

Int J Med Inform 2010, 79(6): e126-e134

Koch S, Hägglund M.

Health informatics and the delivery of care to older people.

Maturitas 2009; 63(3):195-199

Koch S, Marschollek M, Wolf KH, Plischke M, Haux R.

On health-enabling and ambient-assistive technologies: What has been achieved and where do we have to go?

Methods Inf Med 2009; 48(1):29-37

Vimarlund V, Olve N-G, Scandurra I, Koch S.

Organisational effects of the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in elderly homecare - a case study

Health Informatics Journal 2008; 14(3): 195-209

Scandurra I, Hägglund M, Koch S.

From user needs to system specifications: multi-disciplinary thematic seminars as a collaborative design method for development of health information systems.

J Biomed Inform 2008; 41(4):557-69

Hägglund M, Scandurra I, Moström D, Koch S.

Bridging the Gap - a Virtual Health Record for Integrated Home Care

International Journal of Integrated Care Vol. 7, 27 June 2007, ISSN 1568-4156, www.ijic.org

Koch S, Risch T, Schneider W, Wagner V.

An object-oriented model for structured representation of medical knowledge.

International Journal of Computerized Dentistry 2006; 9: 237-252

Koch S.

Home Telehealth - Current status and future challenges.

Int J Med Inform (2006) 75 (8), 565-576

Koch S.

Designing clinically useful systems - Examples from Medicine and Dentistry

Adv Dent Res 2003; 17:65-68

Koch S, Wagner I-V, Seipel S, Schneider W.

Controlled Diagnosis-Oriented Enhancement of Automatically Segmented Radiographs in Dentistry

Comput. Meth. Programs Biomed. 57 (1998) 125-131

Koch S, Wagner I-V, Seipel S, Schneider W.

IT-based evaluation and automatic improvement of the quality of intraoral radiographs

Comput. Meth. Programs Biomed. 46 (1995) 41-50

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