Mr John Ainsworth
- Email: john.ainsworth@manchester.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)161 275 1129
Room 1.315, Jean McFarlane Building
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
Role
I am a researcher in the Health Methodology Group in the School of Community Based Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, with interests in Medical Informatics and Public Health Informatics. The most accurate description of what I do is engineering; I apply compoting technology to health care. I am the Chief Technical Architect and Deputy Director for the North-West Institiute for Bio-Health Informatics (NIBHI) and the General Manager of openCDMS.
I am affiliated with numerous projects, typically leading on some permutation of engineering, technology and project management
Memberships of Committees and Professional Bodies
Research
My research focuses on applying information technology to improving health care and includes:
- Harnessing computing technology to enable novel clincial research
- Using information technology to improve health services
- Applying emerging computing technologis to create novel interventions
- The development of software as a diagnsotic and/or therapeutic medical device.
I work at the iinersection of information technology and healthcare
Methodological Knowledge
Software Development
Systems Engineering
Biography
Prior to my stint in academia I worked in the telecommunications/data networking industry for 10 years, fullfilling a variety of roles including software engineer, software architect, project manager, and consutling engineer. I have worked on numerous telecommunications systems and I have practical experience of designing and developing distributed, fault tolerant systems. I have deep knowledge of all major networking protocols and some fairly esoteric stuff too such as SS7, ISUP, SIGTRAN, DPNSS, UMTS IMS, SIP, etc.
I have dabbled with Grid computing.
For the last 6 years I have focused on health informatics, and have lead the development of openCDMS, an open source study/trial data collection system, to the point where it is in wide spread prodcution use both in the UK and internationally.
I have been the software architect on the e-Lab programme within NIBHI, providing technical leadership in the NWeH and CLAHRC projects.
I am currently active in m-Health, and a memebr of the executive of the Manchester Mobile Health Innovation Centre (MMHIC).
I am firmly committed to improving the quality of medical research and hopefully in turn the health of the population, through free software.
Qualifications
- BSc (Hons) Physics
- MSc Cognitive Science
Collaborators and affiliated staff
Publications
2011
- P. Couch, J. Ainsworth, I. Buchan. (2011). Sharable simulations of public health for evidence based policy making. Presented at Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 2011 24th International Symposium on. eScholarID:147165 | DOI:10.1109/CBMS.2011.5999034
- 3. Bechhofer S, Buchan I, De Roure D, Missier P, Ainsworth J, Bhagat J, Couch P, Cruickshank D, Delderfield M, Dunlop I, Gamble M, Michaelides D, Owen S, Newman D, Sufi D, Goble C. (2011). Why linked data is not enough for scientists. Future Generation Computer Systems, eScholarID:133602 | DOI:10.1016/j.future.2011.08.004
- J. D. Ainsworth, E. Carruthers, P. Couch, N. Green, M. O'Flaherty, M. Sperrin, R. Williams, Z. Asghar, S. Capewell, I. E. Buchan. (2011). IMPACT: A Generic Tool for Modelling and Simulating Public Health Policy. Methods of Information in Medicine, 50(5), 454-463. eScholarID:133601 | DOI:10.3414/ME11-02-0006
- Kelly, James Andrew; Gooding, Patricia; Pratt, Daniel; Ainsworth, John; Welford, mary; Tarrier, Nick. (2011). Intelligent Real Time Therapy (iRTT): Harnessing the power of machine learning to optimise the delivery of momentary cognitive-behavioural interventions. Journal of Mental Health, eScholarID:133604 | DOI:10.3109/09638237.2011.638001
2010
- Bechhofer, S., Ainsworth, J., Bhagat, J., Buchan, I., Couch, P., Cruickshank, D., Roure, D., Delderfield, M., Dunlop, I., Gamble, M., Goble, C., Michaelides, D., Missier, P., Owen, S., Newman, D. & Sufi, S (2010). Why Linked Data is Not Enough for Scientists. IEEE. eScholarID:130228 | DOI:10.1109/eScience.2010.21
- Buchan, I., Ainsworth, J., Carruthers, E., Couch, P., O'Flaherty, M., Smith, D., Williams, R. & Capewell, S (2010). IMPACT: A generalisable system for simulating public health interventions. Studies in health technology and informatics, 160(Pt 1), 486-90. eScholarID:130223
- Thew, S., Jarvis, P., Ainsworth, J. & Buchan, I (2010). Obesity atlas and methodbox: towards an open framework for sharing public health intelligence workflows. Studies in health technology and informatics, 160(Pt 1), 496-500. eScholarID:130225
2009
- Ainsworth, J., Crowther, P. & Buchan, I (2009). Federating health information systems to enable population level research. IEEE. eScholarID:130222 | DOI:10.1109/CBMS.2009.5255442
- Ainsworth, J., Buchan, I. (2009). E-labs and work objects: towards digital health economies. Communications Infrastructure Systems and Applications in Europe, 205-216. eScholarID:133603 | DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-11284-3_22
2007
- Ainsworth J, Baker P, New J, Gibson M, Pioli D, Buchan I. (2007). Public Health e-Labs: A federated model for e-Epidemiology. Presented at Public Health Informatics 2007. Seattle. eScholarID:133605
- Ainsworth, J. & Harper, R (2007). The PsyGrid Experience. International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics, 2(2), 1-20. eScholarID:130227 | DOI:10.4018/jhisi.2007040101
2006
- Ainsworth, J., Harper, R., Juma, I. & Buchan, I (2006). PsyGrid: Applying e-Science to Epidemiology. IEEE. eScholarID:130229 | DOI:10.1109/CBMS.2006.135
- Ainsworth, J., Harper, R., Juma, I. & Buchan, I (2006). Design and implementation of security in a data collection system for epidemiology. Studies in health technology and informatics, 120, 348-57. eScholarID:130220