Borycki, Elizabeth

Borycki, Elizabeth

Biography:
Elizabeth Borycki is a Professor in the School of Health Information Science, and the Director, Global Laboratory for Digital Health Innovation at the University of Victoria, Canada. She is also Clinician Scientist with the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Canada.

Elizabeth has published over 200 articles, 40 book chapters and 10 edited books. The focus of her research and publications has been in the areas of health technology safety, human factors, virtual care (mobile, telehealth and Smart Homes), and health technology implementation.

Elizabeth was voted one of the Top 10 Women in Digital Health by Digital Health Canada (2018) and the Top 100 Health Sciences Informatics Professionals globally by the International Medical Informatics Association (2017). Internationally, Elizabeth’s work has included serving as Academic Representative for Canada for Digital Health Canada [formerly Canada’s Health Informatics Association (2007-2013)], Vice President representing North America on the Board of Directors for the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) (2010-2013), and Vice President – Special Projects (2016-2019). She founded the International Medical Informatics Association Working Group focusing on Health Informatics for Patient Safety and she is a co-lead for the NSERC Visual and Automated Disease Analytics program (VADA).

Elizabeth is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy Health Sciences Informatics, American Medical Informatics Association, and International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association. Elizabeth’s contributions to developing Canada’s first double degree program in Nursing and Health Informatics, and acting as the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of JMIR Nursing.

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