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Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information
Associate professor
Faculty of Medicine
Pediatrics

Contact information:

Office: 613-738-4181
Cell: 613-797-5412
E-mail: kelemam@ehealthinformation.ca
Website

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

Khaled El Emam heads the Electronic Health Information Laboratory (EHIL) and has a research program devoted to facilitating the sharing of health information for secondary purposes while protecting the privacy of patients. In his lab, they develop technology to facilitate health data-sharing, including de-identification methods and secure computation methods to allow surveillance or analysis without compromising privacy. The different methods are suitable under different circumstances and constraints, from individual-level data release and on-going surveillance to interactive remote analysis.

Dr. El Emam’s research spans theoretical work (which consists of developing mathematical models and metrics of re-identification risk), empirical work (evaluations of our models and metrics through simulations and controlled studies), applied work (evaluations on large data sets), and knowledge translation (building software tools, instruments, and education).

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Computer science
• Health policy
• Medical Informatics
• Software engineering

Language preference:

English only

Assistant Professor
Assistant professor
Telfer School of Management

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (1990)
Cell: 613-291-2194
E-mail: uruhi@uOttawa.ca
Website

Preferred method s of contact:

E-mail, Office Telephone

Research information:

Professor Umar Ruhi’s teaching expertise, research interests, and industry engagements span various subject areas in the field of information systems. He teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in management information systems (MIS) and e-business, including courses in the University's interdisciplinary graduate program in e-business technologies. Dr. Ruhi has been involved in various consulting, advisory, research, and analytical roles in the areas of social media, enterprise social computing, online communities, e-government, community portals, web analytics, usability engineering, mobile commerce, and knowledge management. His current research and consulting interests are in the areas of Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Management, Social Media, Business Intelligence, and Consumer Health Informatics. Specifically, his current research projects comprise subject areas such as Social Media, Enterprise Social Computing, Social Media Monitoring & Analytics, Online Communities, Information Interaction, User Experience Design, Real-time Business Intelligence, and Web Services Computing.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Communications and technology
• Computing and Communications
• Data security
• E-business
• E-commerce
• Human-resource management
• Internet
• Knowledge management
• Management information systems
• Medical Informatics
• Technology
• Web engineering
• Web-based learning

Language preference:

English only