Yvonne O Connor

Biography

Dr O Connor is a Lecturer within Business Information System and is a Senior Researcher within the Health Information Systems Research Centre (HISRC), Business Information Systems, Cork University Business School at University College Cork. She is also the IS co-director for MSc Management Information and Managerial Accounting Systems (MSc MIMAS) programme. Yvonne has lectured/is lecturing a number of core Information Systems modules including: Business Systems Analysis and Design Management Information Systems Principles of Web Design for Business Introduction to Web Development for Business Introduction to Principles of Programming Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Final Year Project: Analysis and Design Collaborative Industry Research Project

Research Interest

Yvonne's primary area of research focuses on the introduction, sustained use and ethical implications of mobile technology in healthcare (in both a developed and developing world context). This involves considering how health care is delivered and how it might be improved by introducing IS; identifying barriers and facilitators to mHealth pre- and post-implementation; investigating the decision making process of both direct and indirect users of mHealth; exploring health-related outcomes associated with clinical decision support systems, examining mHealth from a developed and developing world context and investigating the electronic consent (eConsent) process of online fora. Yvonne has also been lead UI/UX analyst for a number of mHealth projects. This work involves prototyping and designing graphic user interfaces (GUIs). Her PhD was in the area of mobile technology post-adoptive use in a healthcare domain. More specifically, her research examined an under-investigated area of extant literature pertaining to mobile technology infusion by healthcare practitioners. A model of mHealth infusion was derived which identified (a) prerequisite conditions of individual post-adoptive use of mobile technological tools by healthcare practitioners and (b) the perceived benefits in terms of individual performance from infusing m-health technologies at the patient's point-of-care. She has experience working on a range of large, national and international funded projects. She was a co-applicant on a successful Irish Research Council (IRC) application and is currently a collaborator on a Wellcome Trust funded project. Yvonne's passion for research is reflected in her involvement with a number of interdisciplinary research projects within the Health Information Systems Research Centre (HISRC), UCC.Yvonne is also an Editorial Board Member for Health Policy and Technology journal and the International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare. She is a reviewer for top journals and conferences; namely, Journal of Medical Internet Research, European Conference of Information Systems, International Conference of Information Systems, European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation and International Conference on Mobile Business. She has published in a number of national and internal journal and conferences. Yvonne's research strategy is driven by my desire to become an independent researcher in the academic domain. She continuously builds on her existing research skills and continues to publish in international journals and conferences. As a result, she reviews recently published material in the mobile-health domain, seeking new academic and practitioner problems to research. To date, Yvonne has published a number of papers in both the IS and health informatics fields with the expectation of publishing more research in international peer-reviewed journals.