Philip Scott  PhD FBCS CITP

Elected to Council:  2009

Constituency:   ICT

Industry Sector:   Higher Education

Employing Organisation:   University of Portsmouth

Job Title:   Senior Lecturer

Biography:  

Philip worked in NHS information management and ICT development projects for fourteen years.  He is Chair Elect of HL7 UK and has a practical interest in systems interoperability, having led the implementation of an automated solution for diagnostic image transfer from the local military hospital unit and Independent Sector Treatment Centre into the Trust's PACS.  Philip has an MSc with distinction in healthcare information systems and a PhD for his research programme exploring clinician usage of information. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Chartered IT Professional. He is chairman of the programme committee for the Southern Institute for Health Informatics 2010 conference hosted by the University of Portsmouth.

In 2009, Philip left the NHS to become a Senior Lecturer in Information Systems at the University of Portsmouth where he teaches IT project management and undertakes health informatics research.