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Professor Rigby focuses on the intersection of health policy, social and public policy, and information and informatics. Drawing on his earlier experience in research, needs analysis and service planning in the NHS, and his academic career in researching and teaching healthcare management and policy (with a focus on information, quality, and non-acute services), Professor Rigby now undertakes expert and advisory roles in a wide range of projects across Europe.
He has led several European projects on health indicators, primarily in child health. He has analysed the issues which impede effective utilisation of informatics systems in health, and is co-author of the internationally recognised Statement on Reporting of Evaluation Studies of Health Informatics (STARE-HI), and the supporting Guidelines on Evaluation Processes (GEP-HI). In 2010 he led a European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop at Keele to examine issues in utilising information systems to harmonise person-centric delivery of health and care services, which has led to international follow-up.
Professor Rigby is now an advisor to many organisations and projects. He is rapporteur for the OECD in their work on Smart Health Systems, collaborator with the European Science Foundation’s Standing Committee for the Social Sciences on the role of social science in enabling informatics applications in health and social care, and expert adviser to the European Commission. He is a part-time faculty member of the Nordic School of Public Health.
Selected Publications
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2013. Developing a New Understanding of Enabling Health and Wellbeing in Europe – Harmonising Health and Social Care Delivery and Informatics Support to Ensure Holistic Care. Strasbourg: European Science Foundation. link>
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2013. Research Inventory of Child Health: A Report on Roadmaps for the Future of Child Health Research in Europe. link>
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2012. Integrating health and social care informatics to enable holistic health care. Stud Health Technol Inform, vol. 177, 41-51. link>
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Books
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2013. Developing a New Understanding of Enabling Health and Wellbeing in Europe – Harmonising Health and Social Care Delivery and Informatics Support to Ensure Holistic Care. Strasbourg: European Science Foundation. link>
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2011. OECD-NSF Workshop: Building A Smarter Health And Wellness Future 15-16 February 2011 Summary Of Key Messages. Paris: OECD. link>
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RIGBY M, ALEXANDER D, SJOSTROM M, FRAZZICA R, HILLGER C, NEUMANN G, KIRCH W (Eds.). 2010. Challenges and Findings in Measuring the Behavioural Determinants of Obesity in Children in Europe. Huber Hans.
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2010. The Challenges of Developing Social Care Informatics as an Essential Part of Holistic Health Care: Report of an ESF Exploratory Workshop held at Keele University on 21-23 July 2010. Strasbourg: European Science Foundation. link> full text>
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2010. The Challenges of Developing Social Care Informatics as an Essential Part of Holistic Health Care: Report of an ESF Exploratory Workshop held at Keele University on 21-23 July 2010. Strasbourg: European Science Foundation. link> full text>
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2008. Nutrition and physical activity- health information sources in EU member states and activities in the commission, WHO and European networks. New York: Springer.
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2006. The KIDSCREEN questionnaires- quality of life questionnaires for children and adolescents. Lengerich, Germany: Pabst Science Publishers.
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2004. Indicatores de vida y desairollo en salud infantil (projecto CHILD) - estudios para la salud 11. Escuela Valenciana de Estudios de la Salud, Valencia, Spain.
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2004. Vision and value in health information. Radcliffe Medical Press, Oxford.
Journal Articles
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2012. Integrating health and social care informatics to enable holistic health care. Stud Health Technol Inform, vol. 177, 41-51. link>
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2012. Personal Health, Person-centred Health and Personalised Medicine - Concepts, Consumers, Confusion and Challenges in the Informatics World. Yearb Med Inform, vol. 7(1), 7-15. link>
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2011. Health Informatics 3.0 and other increasingly dispersed technologies require even greater trust: promoting safe evidence-based health informatics. Contribution of the IMIA Working Group on Technology Assessment & Quality Development in Health Informatics. Yearb Med Inform, vol. 6(1), 105-111. link>
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2011. Next steps in evaluation and evidence - from generic to context-related. Stud Health Technol Inform, vol. 169, 208-212. link>
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2010. Citizens, seamlessness, and care - inter-relationships and inter-operability. Stud Health Technol Inform, vol. 155, 182-188. link>
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2010. Holism, health and data - managing the person-centred digital haystack. Stud Health Technol Inform, vol. 156, 181-188. link>
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2009. Linking informaticians and end users - using the STARE-HI evaluation reporting framework as a unifying design approach. Stud Health Technol Inform, vol. 150, 66-70. link>
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2009. Social care informatics - the missing partner in ehealth. Stud Health Technol Inform, vol. 150, 277-281. link>
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2008. Availability of baby friendly hospitals in EU member states, EEA and candidate countries. European Journal of Public Health, vol. 18(supplement 1), 135.
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2008. Availability of behavioural determinants of obesity in children in Europe. European Journal of Public Health, vol. 18(supplement 1), 133.
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2008. The challenges of gathering data on the bahavioural determinants of the child obesity epidemic in Europe. European Journal of Public Health, vol. 18(supplement 1), 111.
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2007. Enabling the safe and effective implementation of health informatics systems--validating rolling out the ECDL/ICDL health supplement. Stud Health Technol Inform, vol. 129(Pt 2), 1347-1351. link>
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2007. Physical activity and nutrition- health information activities of the EU, WHO, European networks and national examples. Journal of Public Health, vol. 15(supplement 1), S3-S53.
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2006. Balancing population, professionalism, and politics-expertise, application, and autonomy. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, vol. 16, 96. link>
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2006. Dynamic data integration: a service-based broker approach. International Journal of Business Process and Integration and Management, vol. 1(3), 175-191.
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2006. Evaluation--the Cinderella science of ICT in health. Yearb Med Inform, 114-120. link>
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2006. Ubiquitous technologies in health: new challenges of opportunity, expectation, and responsibility. Stud Health Technol Inform, vol. 124, 65-70. link>
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2005. Principles and challenges of child health and safety indicators. International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, vol. 12(2), 71-78. doi>
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2005. A dynamic data-gatherer as an emergent alternative to supra-enterprise EPR systems. Current Perspectives in Healthcare Computing, 169-178.
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2005. Managing healthcare information: the role of the broker. Stud Health Technol Inform, vol. 112, 3-16. link>
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2005. The Data-Gathering Broker - A User-Based Approach to Viable EPR Systems. Stud Health Technol Inform, vol. 116, 905-910. link>
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2004. E-health applications - timely solution or dangerous distraction?. Africa Health, vol. 26(5), 9-12.
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2004. Protecting the patient by promoting end-user competence in health informatics systems - moves towards a generic health computer driving license. International Journal of Medical Informatics. doi>
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2004. Role of information in assessing quality is under-valued. British Medical Journal, vol. 328(7431), 106.
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2004. The health IT rollout: supporting the end users. Health Information Management, vol. 33(3), 93-94.
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2004. Visions and strategies to improve evaluation of health information systems - reflections and lessons based on the HIS-EVAL workshop in Innsbruck. International Journal of Medical Informatics, vol. 73(6), 479-491. doi>
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2003. Child Health Indicators for Europe - A priority for a caring society. European Journal of Public Health, vol. 13, 38-46. doi>
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2003. Indicators of children's development: consideration when constructing a set of national child health indicators for the european union. Child Care, Health and Development. doi>
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2002. Identifying evidence based information for child health monitoring: experience from the EU CHILD Project. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, vol. 12(4), 14-15. link>
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2002. Information as the bridge between research, need, policy and action - identifying systematic health indicators (EU/UK). European Journal of Public Health, vol. 12(4), 32/33.
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2002. The span in information from researching new tools to accessible presentation: Experience from child health. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, vol. 12(4), 32. link>
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2002. Determinants of quality in health informatics. Irish Journal of Medical Science, vol. 171(3 sup1), 15/18.
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2002. Identify evidence-based informations for child health monitoring: experience from the EU CHILD project. European Journal of Public Health, vol. 12(4), 14/16.
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2002. Impact of telemedicine must be defined in developing countries. British Medical Journal, vol. 324(7328), 47/48.
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2002. Pharmaceutical packaging can induce confusion. British Medical Journal, vol. 324(7338), 679.
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2002. The process of spanning from research evidence to structured information: the CHILD approach. European Journal of Public Health, vol. 12(4), 15.
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2002. The span in information from researching new tools to accessible presentation: experience from child health. European Journal of Public Health, vol. 12(4), 32/33.
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2001. Verifying Quality and Safety in Health Informatics Services. British Medical Journal, vol. 323(7312), 552-556. doi>
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2000. The need to ensure that the globalization of information and telematics does not destabilize health-care worldwide. J Telemed Telecare, vol. 6 Suppl 1, S116-S118. link>
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1998. Integrated record keeping as an essential aspect of a primary care led health service. BMJ, vol. 317(7158), 579-582. link>
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1996. A global view of behavioral health informatics initiatives: the vision for tomorrow must start today. Behav Healthc Tomorrow, vol. 5(6), 24-29. link>
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1995. Integrated electronic records as the resolution of ethical tensions between clinical and managerial objectives. Medinfo, vol. 8 Pt 1, 280-284. link>
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1994. COMMUNITY-HEALTH - DELIVERING THE VISION. BRITISH JOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE COMPUTING & INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, vol. 11(6), 34-36. link>
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1994. A networked patient-based integrated care system as a basis for the achievement of quality in practice. Stud Health Technol Inform, vol. 14, 46-54. link>
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1994. Lessons from a child health system on opportunities and threats to quality from networked record systems. Stud Health Technol Inform, vol. 14, 66-72. link>
Chapters
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2012. Personal Health, Person-centred Health and Personalised Medicine - Concepts, Consumers, Confusion and Challenges in the Informatics World. In IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2012: Personal Health Informatics. Kulikowski CA and Geissbuhler A (Eds.). Stuttgart: Schattauer.
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2011. Health Informatics 3.0 and other Increasingly Dispersed Technologies Require Even Greater Trust: Promoting Safe Evidence-based Health Informatics. In IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2011. Geissbuhler A and Kulikowski CA (Eds.). Stuttgart: Schattauer.
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2010. Availability of Health Information on Behavioural Determinants of Obesity of Children in Europe. In Challenges and Findings in Measuring the Behavioural Determinants of Obesity in Children in Europe. Huber Hans.
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2010. The Public Health Challenges of Measuring the Nutritional and Physical Exercise Behaviour of Children and Adolescents. In Challenges and Findings in Measuring the Behavioural Determinants of Obesity in Children in Europe. Huber Hans.
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2009. Indicators of Child Health as a Key Component of Child Well-being. In The On-going Debate on the Assessment of Children’s Conditions of Life – The Proceedings of the ChildONEurope Seminar on Child Well-being Indicators. ChildONEurope Secretariat (Ed.). European Network of Childhood Observatories.
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2008. Postition and Activities on Measurement of Nutrition and Physical Exercise. In Nutrition and Physical Activity. Wolfram N, Rigby M, Frazzica RG (Eds.). Sports Media Challenge.
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2008. A patient care electronic diary to empower the patient and their virtual care team. In Collaboration and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies. Cunningham PCM (Ed.). Amsterdam: IOS Press.
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2008. Ensuring Trust and Governance in E-Social Care. In Collaboration and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies. Amsterdam: IOS Press.
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2008. Social Care Informatics: Beginning to face up to the reality of the mixed services economy?. In Collaboration and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies. Cunningham P and Cunningham M (Eds.). Amsterdam: IOS Press.
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2008. World Health Organisation (Europe)position and activities on measurement of nutrition and physical exercise. In Nutrition and Physical Activity- Health Information Sources in EU Member States and Activities in the Commission, WHO and European Networks. Wolfram N, Rigby M, Sjostrom M, Frazzica RG, Kirch W (Eds.). New York: Springer.
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2007. Enabling citizens to assess the quality and integrity of health websites. In Expanding the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications and Case Studies- Proceedings of E-Challenges. Cunningham P and Cunnigham M (Eds.). Amsterdam: IOS Press.
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2005. Harnessing innovation in health IT: effective support and evaluated visions. In Future Health Organisations and Systems. Dawson S and Sausman C (Eds.). Palgrave Macmillan.
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2004. Globalisation or localisation: Common truths or local knowledge?. In Vision and Value in Health Information. Rigby M (Ed.). Radcliffe Medical Press, Oxford.
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2004. Information as the patient's advocate. In Vision and Value in Health Information. Rigby M (Ed.). Radcliffe Medical Press, Oxford.
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2004. Principles and purpose for child health informatics. In Vision and Value in Health Information. Rigby M (Ed.). Radcliffe Medical Press, Oxford.
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2004. Principles and Purpose for child health informatics. In Vision and Value in Health Information. Rigby M (Ed.). Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press.
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2003. The span in information from researching new tools to accessible presentation - experience from child and adolescent health. In Public Health in Europe - 10 Years of EUPHA. Kirch W (Ed.). Springer, Berlin.
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2002. The diffusion of telemedicine. In State-of-the-Art Telemedicine/Telehealth An International Perspective. Bashshur RL, Mandil SH, Shannon GW (Eds.). Mary Ann Liebert, Larchmont NY.
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Evaluation – the Cinderella Science of ICT in Health. In IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2006. Kulikowski C and Haux R (Eds.). Stuttgart: Schattauer.
Other
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2013. Research Inventory of Child Health: A Report on Roadmaps for the Future of Child Health Research in Europe. link>
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2004. Dynamic Data Integration Using Web Services. Proceedings ICWS 2004.
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2004. Dynamic Data Integration Using Web Services. Proceedings ICWS 2004.
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2004. Improving governance and reducing risk in electronic patient record systems: ensuring appropriate competencies for support and end-user staff. Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Medical Informatics.
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2004. The IBHIS project: reframing of EPR systems logic to focus on the end-user - a vision and a potential broker solution. Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Medical Informatics.
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2004. The span in information from researching new tools to accessible presentation - experience from child and adolescent health. PUBLIC HEALTH IN EUROPE (pp. 275-292). link>
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2004. Using Web Service Technologies to create an Information Broker: An Experience Report. Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Software Engineering. doi>
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2004. Using Web Service Technologies to create an Information Broker: An Experience Report. Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Software Engineering.
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2003. Creating a structured progressive qualifications path in applied health informatics. Proceedings of Teach Globally, Learn Locally: Innovations in Health and Biomedical Informatics Education in the 21st Century - International Medical Informatics Association Working Group on Education Conference.
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2003. Protecting the patient by ensuring end-user competence in health informatics systems - moves towards a generic health computer user "driving licence". Proceedings of Teach Globally, Learn Locally: Innovations in Health and Biomedical Informatics Education in the 21st Century - International Medical Informatics Association Working Group on Education Conference, Portland, Oregon.
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2002. Determinants of quality in health informatics. IRISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (vol. 171, pp. 15-18). link>
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2001. Evaluation: 16 powerful reasons why not to do it - and 6 over-riding imperatives. Medinfo 2001: Proceedings of the 10th World Congress on Medical Informatics.
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1998. Towards an ethical protocol in mental health informatics. Stud Health Technol Inform (vol. 52 Pt 2, pp. 1223-1227). link>
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1997. Keeping confidence in confidentiality: Linking ethics, efficacy, and opportunity in health care computing a case study. PERSONAL MEDICAL INFORMATION (pp. 129-150). link>
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1996. Building healthcare delivery systems, management, and information around the human facets. MEDICAL INFORMATICS EUROPE '96 (vol. 34, pp. 425-429). link>

