Date: 29-10-2024
Place: Online
Competences and reflection on the learning undertaken: Learned at a high level how replicas are deployable to monitor and optimize entities and processes in a broad range of application contexts such as disaster management, health care, or urban development.

Date: 01-10-2024
Place: Online
Competences and reflection on the learning undertaken: Specific session for doctoral students applying Atlas.ti use cases. Allowed me to further learn to use the software I will be using for my thesis.

Date: 25-09-2024 / 07-02-2025
Place: Online
Competences and reflection on the learning undertaken: This course delved into formal writing aspects regarding publishing an academic article. Modules included how to properly state the research statement, journal searching techniques, searching relevant literature, drafting and providing feedback, and delivering an academic article.

Date: 16-09-2024
Place: Glasgow, Scotland
Competences and reflection on the learning undertaken: ACII 2024 is the premier international forum for research on affective and multimodal human-machine interaction and systems. Attended the Multimodal Social Robots and Agents for Mental Health and Wellbeing workshop to expand state-of-the-art research regarding multimodal interaction models and mental health interventions.

Date: 20-06-2024
Place: UOC
Competences and reflection on the learning undertaken: Seminar which introduced and explained how to perform thematic analysis using the software Atlas.ti.

It was a great pleasure to be part of the research team undertaking a national telemedicine study to support the Ministry of Health of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of Republika Srpska in introducing and developing telemedicine services. The study is part of the EU Support for Health Sector Reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina” (BIH) project..  The report of the study is expected to be submitted shortly.

The objectives of the research were to assess the current status, as well as to identify potential weaknesses that could hinder the development of telemedicine services in both entities; and to support the creation of a strategic roadmap for the development and implementation of telemedicine services.

This study utilised a descriptive cross-sectional online mixed-method survey design, based on the constructs of the Support Tool https://www.who.int/europe/publications/i/item/WHO-EURO-2024-9548-49320-73720 to Strengthen Telemedicine as a conceptual framework and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) framework as a theoretical foundation.

Findings provide rich insights into the strengths and weaknesses of telemedicine services in BIH and strong foundations for strategic planning for the consolidation and scaleup of telemedicine services in BIH

Our publication, together with my co-authors José María Ruiz, Francesc Saigí-Rubió, and David Novillo-Ortiz, entitled The state of the art of telemedicine implementation architecture: a rapid umbrella review of systematic reviews, is being considered for publication in JMIR.  We are currently responding to peer review feedback and hope to submit the revisions shortly.  The findings of this study inform a pressing translational research knowledge gap in telemedicine implementation hindering the implementation of high-quality, sustainable and scalable telemedicine systems.

Wish us luck!

I had the great pleasure to facilitate a workshop with my doctoral supervisor (Professor Francesc Saigí Rubió) in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.  The workshop familiarized 13 participants from the Ministry of Health (Health Care Policy Department and Strategic Development and Analytics Department) and Georgian Medical Holdings, with the Telemedicine Implementation Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) which I’ve been involved in supporting the development of, as part of my doctoral research.

The workshop was a rewarding experience to see first hand the opportunities and challenges faced during the national scaleup of telemedicine services.   It was a great privilege and pleasure to help facilitate this workshop and I wish to thank Professor Francesc Saigí Rubió for inviting me to support him ]n this work.