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Assoc Prof Jeffrey Soar

Name :	Assoc Prof Jeffrey Soar
Position :	Associate Professor (Information Systems)
Section :	Faculty of Business School of Information Systems
Office :	T334
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	61 7 4631 1255
Extension :	1255
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BA(Hons) Monash GDipEd HawthorneInstEd GDipCommDataProc RMIT MEd La Trobe PhD NSWUT

Professional Memberships

Member Health Informatics Society of Australia
Member of the Australian Computer Society

Professional Affiliations

Convener, Queensland Smart Home Initiative;
Secretary of the HISA Aged & Community Care Informatics SIG;
Member of the General Assembly of FICOSSER (International Federation of Health Systems Research Centres)

Research Interests

e-health, aged & community care informatics;
public safety systems and technologies;
information systems strategic planning;
project management

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Soar J and Croll P (2007) Assistive technologies for the frail elderly, chronic illness sufferers and people with disabilities; a case study of the development of a Smart Home, ACIS 5-7 December 2007, Toowoomba, Australia

Eley R, Fallon A, Soar J, Buikstra E and Hegney D. The status of training and education in information and computer technology of Australia’s nurses: a national survey, Journal of Clinical Nursing (accepted 7/12/07)

Jeffrey Soar (2008) Chapter 6: Information management and technology for conflict prevention and peace, in Gabriele Suder (ed) International Business under Adversity: A Role in Corporate Responsibility, Conflict prevention and Peace (submitted)

Most notable :

Soar J and Conrick M, (2006) Chapter 15: Software management, in Conrick M (ed) Transforming Healthcare with Technology: Informatics in Healthcare, Thompson, Australia

Soar J and Seo Y, (2007) Health and Aged Care Enabled by Information Technology, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1114 Page 154-161, October 2007

Soar J, Yuginovich T and Whittaker F (2007): Reducing avoidable hospital admissions of the frail elderly using intelligent referrals eJHI - electronic Journal of Health Informatics, Vol 2(1), e3.

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

CIS8004

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 12 years
Other : 5 years

Administrative Responsibilities

Director CAAIR - Collaboration for Ageing & Aged-Care Informatics Research CAAIR, USQ
Convener QSHI - Queensland Smart Home Initiative