Pieter Jelle Toussaint
Background and activities
Pieter Jelle Toussaint (1965) is a Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science.
He belongs to the Information Systems and Software Engineering research group.
Professor Toussaint has a Msc in both Informatics and General Linguistics from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, and a PhD in Medical Informatics from the same University.
Fields of interest and present research activities
Most of my research is related to the medical domain. My research interest is mostly covered by the overall theme Collaboration and Coordination of the IS group profile. Within that theme I focused on what can be seen as two sub-themes:
Computer-mediated communication
In 2003 I initiated a research programme at the clinical informatics group where I worked that focused on Computer-mediated communication in health care. Several research projects were initiated within this programme. In 2005 I co-edited a special issue for the International Journal of Medical Informatics on communication in health care, together with prof. E. Coiera from UNSW in Sydney. At NTNU I supervised a PhD-student (Ero Karlsen) who has a project on computer-mediated communication and at the moment we are in the process of hiring a postdoc and a PhD-candidate for a new computer-mediated communication project. This project is a collaboration with the telematics departement at NTNU.
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
The COSTT project, for which I am the project manager, focuses on supporting coordination of clinical work. Some of the PhD candidates I supervise position their research explicitly in the CSCW research field. At the CSCW conference in Savannah in 2010 I presented a paper on a workshop on CSCW in health care, that was later reworked into an article that was accepted for a special issue of the International Journal of Medical Informatics (Level 2).
Membership in academic and professional committees, scientific review work including peer-review, outreach activities, and other professional merits
Recent grants acquired
- 2,4 million NOK in the EVASAM program of the Norwegian Research Council for the SIKT project (2014-2015)
- 23 million NOK in the stor IKT program of the Norwegian Research Council for the COSTT project (2008-2012)
- 3 Ph.D. positions within the ToKeN2000 program of the Dutch Council of Scientific Research, for a project called Narrator (2003-2007)
- 225.000 Euro for the development of an Internet based information system that supports patient education within elderly care. Project name; Geriwijzer (2002-2005)
- 60.000 Euro within the man-Machine Interaction program from the Dutch funding organization Senter/Novem, for a postdoc position on the development and evaluation of Agent-technology in assisting patients in selfcare (2003-2007)
Scientific management
- Assistant head of the Clinical Informatics group of the Leiden University medical center
- Project leader of the Geriwijzer project
- Project leader of the Narrator project
- Project leader of the COSTT project
- Head of the IS-group at IDI/NTNU
- Scientific leader for the Health Informatics master at NTNU
- Member of the steering board of the strategic area NTNU Health
Reviewer
- International Journal of Medical Informatics
- Computer methods and programs in Bio-medicine
- Methods of Information in Medicine
- Behaviour & Information Technology
Professional Organizations
- Member of the board of the Dutch Organization for Medical Informatics till July 2007
- Member of the track committee for IEEE CBMS “Supporting Collaboration in Healthcare” at CBMS 2009, 2010 and 2011
Professor Toussaint has supervised 3 doctoral students, and is currently supervising 5 PhD candidates.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2020) Mobile Sensing in Substance Use Research: A Scoping Review. Telemedicine journal and e-health. vol. 26 (10).
- (2018) Guided Process Discovery - A pattern-based approach. Information Systems. vol. 76.
- (2017) Does Information Quality matter?. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. vol. 2001.
- (2017) An early infectious disease outbreak detection system based on self-recorded data from people with diabetes. Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics. vol. 19 (S1).
- (2016) Exchange of information between hospital and home health care: A longitudinal perspective. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. vol. 225.
- (2016) Does revealing contextual knowledge of the patient’s intention help nurses’ handling of nurse calls?. International Journal of Medical Informatics. vol. 86.
- (2016) From low-level events to activities - A pattern-based approach. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). vol. 9850.
- (2015) Availability communication: requirements for an awareness system to support nurses' handling of nurse calls. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. vol. 216.
- (2014) Patients in transition: e-messages as a tool for collaboration between hospital and community healthcare - a Norwegian Case. Computer-Based Medical Systems.
- (2013) Instant Messaging at the Hopsital: supporting articulation work?. International Journal of Medical Informatics. vol. 82 (9).
- (2012) Managing variations from surgical care plans: Challenges for coordination. International Journal of Medical Informatics. vol. 82 (1).
- (2011) Research management in healthcare informatics - experiences from Norway. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. vol. 169.
- (2011) Personal Health Information on Display: Balancing Needs, Usability and Legislative Requirements. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. vol. 169.
- (2011) Coping with the unforeseen in surgical work. International Journal of Medical Informatics. vol. 80 (8).
- (2011) Challenges in Designing Technology for Reducing the Need for Synchronous Communication in the Perioperative Environment. Lecture Notes in Informatics. vol. P-186.
- (2010) Peri-operative Communication Patterns and Media Usage - Implications for Systems Design. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. vol. 160 (1).
- (2010) Use of Events in Clinical Software. MITAT. Minimally invasive therapy & allied technologies. vol. 19.
- (2009) Extending PACS by adapting messaging for clinical practice: a case study related to after-EVAR follow-ups. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. vol. 4.
- (2009) Technologies for coordination support in hospitals – a review. European Journal of Anaesthesiology. vol. 26.
- (2008) Validity and responsiveness of the Rehabilitation Activities Profile (RAP) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Clinical Rehabilitation. vol. 22.