Dr. Bridget Theresa Kane

Dr. Bridget Theresa Kane

Visiting Research Fellow, Public Health & Primary Care

http://people.tcd.ie/kanebt

Biography

Worked on the SIREN project with Prof Steve Thomas 2013 - end of2015. See www.ucc.ie/en/siren The aim of the SIREN project is to describe and evaluate the development and performance of different emergency and urgent care systems (EUCS) in Ireland and produce a framework for the future evaluation of EUCS in this country. Ultimately our research will facilitate the dissemination of quality improvement strategies across the country which will lead to population wide improvements in patient experience and health outcomes. The programme, led by Prof John Browne of University College Cork, involves six inter-related work packages to address the following objectives: i)To identify geographical networks of emergency and urgent care in Ireland, and describe the model of EUCS configuration planned/implemented in each region. ii) To analyse the process by which plans for EUCS reconfiguration were developed with a specific focus on the use of evidence and the roles of different internal and external stakeholders. iii) To analyse the relationship between different EUCS models of governance and provision, and system-level indicators of activity, process and clinical outcome. iv) To develop, implement and test a comprehensive evaluation framework for EUCS. Bridget has also conducted research in Department of Computer Science, in collaboration with clinicians at St. James's Hospital. Originally Bridget trained, and worked, as a biomedical scientist specialising in cell pathology. While working in a senior scientific role as departmental manager, she achieved an M.Sc. Management in Organization Behaviour. Later, following the successful implementation of an IT project Bridget became involved in health informatics and completed an M.Sc (Health Informatics) in 2003. Bridget's analysis of multidisciplinary medical team meetings and the use of communication technology was awarded PhD in June 2008.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Bridget Kane and Saturnino Luz, Clinical Training and Teamwork: Learning and Feedback, IEEE 28th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, São Carlos and Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, June 22-25 2015, IEEE, 2015, pp280 - 285Conference Paper, 2015
  • Journal of Behaviour and Information Technology, Taylor& Francis, [Associate Editor], 2011Editorial Board, 2011
  • Pius, A. Vinu, M. Middleton, L. Ahmad, S. Kane, B., A Study of an Infant Tagging System in a Maternity Hospital in Practice, Irish Journal of Medical Science, RAMI Health Informatics Student Research Symposium, Dublin, May 20th 2015, edited by IJMS , 184, (Supplement), ppS349 - S350Published Abstract, URL
  • Bridget Kane, Saturnino Luz, D Sean O'Briain, Ronan McDermott, Multidisciplinary team meetings and their impact on work-flow in Radiology and Pathology Departments, BMC Medicine, 5, (15), 2007, p10Journal Article, 2007, DOI , URL
  • Bridget Kane, Saturnino Luz, Multidisciplinary Medical Team Meetings: An analysis of collaborative working with special attention to timing and teleconferencing, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 15, (5-6), 2006, p501 - 535Journal Article, 2006, DOI , URL
  • Bridget Kane, Saturnino Luz, Probing the Use and Value of Video for Multi-Disciplinary Medical Teams in Teleconference, Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems, 19th IEEE International symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems, Salt Lake City USA, June 2006, 2006, pp518 - 523Conference Paper, 2006, DOI , URL
  • Bridget Kane and Saturnino Luz, Is it easier to offer expert opinion in teleconference?, TTeC08, Tromso, Norway, 08-11 June 2008, 2008, pp169 - 170Conference Paper, 2008
  • Bridget Kane and Saturnino Luz, Taking lessons from teleconferencing to improve same time same place interactions, IEEE CBMS 08, Jyvasklya, Finland, 16-19 June 2008, IEEE, 2008, pp494 - 499Conference Paper, 2008, DOI , URL
  • Bridget Kane, What can vocalisation patterns tell us about the content of meetings?, COST 2102, Trinity College Dublin, March 23 - 27 2009, edited by Anna Esposito, Nick Campbell, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Amir Hussain, Anton Nijholt, Carl Vogel , 2009Conference Paper, 2009
  • Bridget Kane and Saturnino Luz, Achieving Diagnosis by Consensus, COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK-THE JOURNAL OF COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING , 18, (4), 2009, p357 - 391Journal Article, 2009, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Jing Su, Kane, B., Luz, S., Automatic content segmentation of audio recordings at multidisciplinary medical team meetings, Information Technology, Gdansk, Poland, 18-21 May, 2008, pp309 - 312Conference Paper, 2008, DOI , URL
  • Curran, AJ, Smyth, D, Kane, B, Toner, M, Timon, CI, Exfoliated malignant cells in glove and instrument washings following head and neck surgery., Clinical otolaryngology and allied sciences, 21, (3), 1996Journal Article, 1996
  • MacLeod, D, Kane, B, Kidney, D, Murphy, J, O'Briain, DS, Jackson, F, Mulvihill, B, Mulcahy, F, Clancy, L, Prichard, JS, A clinico-pathological study of 79 bronchoscopies in HIV-positive patients., Irish medical journal, 86, (5), 1993Journal Article, 1993
  • McLoughlin, P, Mulcahy, F, O'Briain, DS, Kane, B, Mulvihill, E, Prichard, JS, Lung pathology in HIV positive patients., Irish medical journal, 83, (3), 1990Journal Article, 1990
  • Bridget Kane and Saturnino Luz, Assimilating Information and Offering a Medical Opinion in Remote and Co-located Meetings, IEEE Computer Based Medical Systems, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, August 3 - 4, IEEE, 2009, pp494 - 499Conference Paper, 2009, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Bridget Kane, Saturnino Luz and James Meaney, Perception of Movement and Orientation in Digital Medical Imaging, Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference (I-HCI'09), Trinity College Dublin, September, edited by S Luz, G. Doherty and A. Quigley , 2009, pp111 - 114Conference Paper, 2009, DOI
  • Bridget Kane and Saturnino Luz, Information sharing at multidisciplinary medical team meetings, Group Decision and Negotiation, 20, (4), 2011, p437 - 464Journal Article, 2011, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Bridget T. Kane, An Analysis of the Dynamics of Multi-Disciplinary Medical Team Meetings and the Use of Communication Technology, Trinity College Dublin, 2008Thesis, 2008, TARA - Full Text
  • Bridget Kane, Saturnino Luz, Jing Su, Capturing multimodal interaction at medical meetings in a hospital setting: Opportunities and Challenges, Workshop on Multi-Modal Corpora at LREC 2010, Malta, May 17-23, edited by Michael Kipp, Jean-Claude Martin, Patrizia Paggio, Dirk Heylen , 2010, pp140 - 145Conference Paper, 2010, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Bridget Kane, Ken O'Byrne, Saturnino Luz, Assessing Support Requirements for Multidisciplinary Team Meetings, The 23RD IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2010), Perth, Western Australia, 12 - 15 October 2010, edited by Mykola Pechenizkiy and Tony Hu , IEEE, 2010Conference Paper, 2010, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Bridget Kane and Saturnino Luz, On Record Keeping at Multidisciplinary Team Meetings, The 24th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Bristol, England, June 27 - 30, 2011, IEEE, 2011, pp1 - 6Conference Paper, 2011, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Bridget Kane and Saturnino Luz, Collaboration and multimedia: identifying equilibrium in the MDT information ecosystem, ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion, Seattle, February 2012, edited by Jonathan Grudin, Gloria Mark and John Riedl , ACM, 2012, pp119 - 122Conference Paper, 2012, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Longo Luca, Kane Bridget, A novel methodology for evaluating user interfaces in health care, 24th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) , 27-30 Jun, 2011, pp1 - 6Conference Paper, 2011, URL
  • Luca Longo, Bridget Kane, Lucy Hederman, Argumentation Theory in Health Care, The 25th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Rome, Italy, June 20-22, 2012, IEEE, 2012, pp1 - 6Conference Paper, 2012, DOI , URL
  • Bridget Kane and Kristina Groth and Pieter Toussaint, What Makes a Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), and How Do MDTs Work?, Infrastructures in Healthcare, Tromsø, June 13-14, edited by Gunnar Ellingsen and Pernille Bjørn , 2013Conference Paper, 2013, URL
  • Bridget Kane and Saturnino Luz, "Do No Harm": Fortifying MDT Collaboration in Changing Technological Times, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 82, 2013, p613 - 625Journal Article, 2013, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Bridget Kane and Pieter Toussaint and Saturnino Luz, Shared Decision Making Needs a Communication Record, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, San Antonio, Texas, USA, February 23-27, edited by Loren Terveen and Cliff Lampe , ACM, 2013, pp79 - 89Conference Paper, 2013, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Bridget Kane, Saturnino Luz, Steve Thomas, Including Cost Analysis in a Framework for Evaluating Technology Use at Multidisciplinary Team Meetings in Healthcare, 11th International Health Economics Association, Dublin, 13 - 16 July 2014, 2014Conference Paper, 2014, TARA - Full Text
  • Bridget Kane and Saturnino Luz, Expanding the HCI Agenda in Healthcare, 27th International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems, New York, USA, May 27th - 29th 2014, IEEE, 2014, pp382 - 385Conference Paper, 2014, DOI
  • Bridget Kane and Kristina Groth, Multidisciplinary Work Practices: A Comparison of Three Major European Hospitals, 27th International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems, New York, USA, May 27th - 29th 2014, IEEE, 2014, pp369 - 375Conference Paper, 2014, URL
  • Bridget Kane and Pieter Toussaint, Developing a Framework for Evaluation of Technology Use at Multidisciplinary Meetings in Healthcare, 26th iEEE International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS), Porto, Portugal, 20-22 June 2013, IEEE, 2013, pp355 - 360Conference Paper, 2013
  • Automatic meeting participant role detection by dialogue patterns. in, editor(s)Esposito, A, Campbell N Vogel, C Hussain, A Nijholt, A , Development of Multimodal Interfaces: Active Listening and Synchrony. No. 5967 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin Heidelberg, Springer, 2010, pp314 - 327, [Jing, S., Kane, B. and Luz, S]Book Chapter, 2010
  • Journal of Behaviour and Information Technology, Taylor & Francis, [Special Issue on Teamwork, Collaboration and Patient Centred Care], 2015Editorial Board, URL
  • Journal of Behaviour and IT, Taylor & Francis, [Special Issue: Medical Team Meetings: Utilising Technology to Enhance Communication, Collaboration and Decision-Making], 2011Editorial Board, URL

Research Expertise

Information, Communication and Decision-making processes. Multidisciplinary medical team working; medical work, especially diagnostic work processes; health services research; meetings, job design and interpersonal communications at work. Behaviour and Information Technology.

  • Title
    ECOMMET: Enhanced Computing Support for Multidisciplinary Medical Team Meetings
    Summary
    Multidisciplinary medical team meetings have become an established practice in many hospitals. Teams of experts routinely come together to discuss cases and patient management decisions. Such discussions generate a wealth of information that is not captured in traditional medical records. Although recent technological and organisational developments have made digital recording of entire meetings a distinct possibility, the usefulness of this kind of audiovisual database is dependent on how effectively its contents can be accessed. This project will investigate human and technological issues involved in building advanced computing support for collaboration, production and access of electronic medical records in those contexts.
    Funding Agency
    Science Foundation Ireland
    Date From
    2006
    Date To
    2009
  • Title
    Technological support for interaction in multidisciplinary medical discussions
    Summary
    My current work continues to explore specific MDT issues in St. James's Hospital and further inform the model of MDT work. Issues of standardization of practices among teams, namely the selection of patients for discussion, the data required to be available at the MDTM for discussion to take place and the recording practices for the MDTM decision, are being addressed. Integration of MDT knowledge into MDTM records and available to individual patient electronic into the hospital Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system is being explored. The use of teleconferencing technology is also being monitored.
    Funding Agency
    IRCSET
    Date From
    December 2009
    Date To
    December 2011
  • Title
    SIREN: Appropriate Care in the Appropriate Setting: The Impact of the Health Service Executive Transformation Programme on Utilisation, Patient Experience, Safety and outcome in Urgent and Emergency Care
    Summary
    The aim is to describe and evaluate the development and performance of different emergency and urgent care systems (EUCS) in Ireland. There are four objectives: 1. To identify geographical networks of emergency and urgent care In Ireland, and describe the model of EUCS configuration planned/implemented in each region. 2. To analyse the process by which plans for EUCS reconfiguration were developed with a specific focus on the use of evidence and the roles of different internal and external stakeholders. 3. To analyse the relationship between different EUCS models of governance and provision, and system-level indicators of activity, process and clinical outcome. 4. To develop, implement and test a comprehensive evaluation framework for EUCS. Ultimately our research will facilitate the dissemination of quality improvement strategies across the country which will lead to population wide improvements in patient experience and health outcomes.
    Funding Agency
    Health Research Board
    Date From
    May 2013
    Date To
    May 2015

Computer science - Artificial Intelligence, Health Care & Health Services (including Health Technology and Health Information Systems), Other Health Sciences, Computer science - Information Systems,

Recognition

  • WiSER postdoctoral award March 2008
  • Chartered Scientist 2004
  • IRCHSS Research Scholarship 2004
  • IRCSET Research Fellowship December 2009
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie ERCIM Fellowship Mar 2012
  • Associate Irish Management Institute current
  • Member of the Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology current
  • Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences current
  • Cytotechnologist member of the International Academy of Cytology current
  • Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland current
  • IEEE - ordinary member current
  • Fellow of the Academy of Clinical Science and Laboratory Medicine current
  • Health Informatics Society of Ireland current
  • Extra-Ordinary member of the British Society for Clinical Cytology current
  • Treasurer, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGCHI Ireland current
  • Co-Chair Special Track on 'Health Knowledge Management', at the 21th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems IEEE CBMS 2008, Jyvaskla, Finland. 16-19 June 2008
  • Associate Editor Journal of Behaviour and Information Technology June 2011
  • Programme Committee 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2009 Aug 3-4
  • Programme Committee INTERACT, 2009 Aug 24-28
  • Co-Chair Special Track on 'Collaboration and technology-mediated communication in healthcare', at the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems IEEE CBMS 2013, Porto, Portugal June 20-22 2013
  • Publications Chair at the 27th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems IEEE CBMS 2014, New York, USA, 2014 May 27-29, 2014
  • Programme Committee 21th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2008 2008
  • Co-Chair Special Track on 'Sharing Knowledge and Expertise', at the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems IEEE CBMS 2009, New Mexico, USA. Aug 3-4
  • Programme committee 20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems 2007. 2007
  • Publications Chair at the 28th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems IEEE CBMS 2015, Brazil, 2015 June 2015
  • Co-Chair Special Track on 'Supporting Collaboration in Healthcare', at the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems IEEE CBMS 2011, Bristol, England June 27th - 30th
  • Co-Chair Special Track on 'Supporting Collaboration among Healthcare Workers', at the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems IEEE CBMS 2010, Perth, Western Australia October 12 -15 2010
  • Co-Chair Special Track on 'Collaboration and technology-mediated communication in healthcare', at the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems IEEE CBMS 2012, Rome, Italy June 20 -22
  • Programme Committee for Workshop on Collaboration and Coordination in the Context of Informal Care, at CSCW, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 2014, Feb 15 - 19, 2014
  • Associate Editor and Editorial Board of the International Journal of Health Informatics June 2013