Henry Potts

Role: Session Chair, “Wearables, Robotics, Sensors, and Ubiquituous Systems for Health”
Affiliation: Institute for Health Informatics, UCL

Biography

Dr Henry Potts is a Senior Lecturer at UCL’s Institute for Health Informatics. Working from a sociotechnical perspective, his research focuses on the adoption of new information and communication technologies in healthcare, by patients and professionals. Current work includes in m-health (healthcare on mobile devices), on personal health records (PHRs), and on health information on Wikipedia. Dr Potts has published highly-cited work on patient use of the Internet, and on professional use of electronic health records. He has had recent funding from the UK’s National Institute for Health Research

Dr Potts completed a PhD in health psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry and an MSc in Applied Statistics at the University of Oxford. He initially worked for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK) in Oxford, with his first position in health informatics being at UCL’s School of Public Policy. After working at King’s College London, he moved back to UCL in 2004.