Scott G Cunningham
Clinical Medicine
Dundee University
Belgium
Biography
Dr Scott Cunningham is Technical Consultant at the University of Dundee and has more than fifteen years of experience in software architecture design, development and project management within healthcare. He is technical lead for NHS Scotland’s shared electronic record for diabetes: SCI Diabetes Collaboration (SCI-DC). This system has been hugely influential in the understanding of diabetes and received an award for “Excellence in Major Healthcare IT Development” at the eHealth Insider Awards in 2011. Scott has an active research interest in the patient-focused aspects of health informatics and led the development of NHS Scotland’s patient website My Diabetes My Way:www.mydiabetesmyway.scot.nhs.uk. This award-winning website (“Award for Education and Self-management”, Diabetes UK Annual Professional Conference, 2015; “Best initiative supporting self-care”, Quality in Care Diabetes, 2013) allows patients across Scotland direct access to their diabetes record. Scott and his team have a track record of taking research development grants to the level of fully integrated national services.
Research Interest
Scott’s research interests include the novel use of computer systems to: support direct patient care assist patient self-management analyse and interpret large population-based clinical datasets support epidemiological research
