The Thematic Line 6 – Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Decision Sciences in Health focuses on effectiveness, quality, sustainability, and digital transformation of healthcare. The core topics include methodological and applied research on digital health, health informatics, patient-centred technologies, clinical simulation, artificial intelligence, health data science, signal processing, biostatistics, clinical research methods, health services research, health decision sciences, evidence-based decision-making, evidence synthesis, health technology assessment and health economics.
Coordinated by Luís Azevedo, TL6 aims to establish strong methodological, technological, and quantitative foundations to support the design, collection, management, analysis, and application of data, information, and scientific knowledge as the cornerstone for evidence-based and person-centred decision-making, health policy, and technological innovation.
Furthermore, TL6 aims to have a leadership position in the digital transformation of health systems by conceptualising, developing, and adequately assessing digital technologies to transform healthcare.
Coordinates TL6 – Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Decision Sciences in Health at RISE-Health. He is an Associate Professor and researcher at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP), where he directs the PhD program in Clinical and Health Services Research (PDICSS) and is also the Coordinator of a research group at CINTESIS@RISE.
He graduated as a Medical Doctor in 2001 at FMUP and obtained a Post-Graduate Diploma in Statistics at the University of Lisbon in 2007, completing his Examination of Scientific and Educational Abilities in 2008 with a dissertation on Decision Analysis, Cost-Effectiveness, and Evidence Synthesis in Health, and his PhD in Clinical and Health Services Research at FMUP in 2013.
He acted as a methodology expert in The European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (ECRIN) and as the author of the R&I Agenda in Health, Clinical and Translational Research of the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT). He is a member of the Portuguese HTA Agency and author of the national HTA guidelines.
He is a member of Cochrane, Director of the Porto Associate Centre of Cochrane Portugal, and principal investigator in a methodological research project funded by the FCT entitled “Adjusting bias in a meta-analysis using empirically based prior distributions: feasibility, validity and reliability” (B-FREE). He develops methodological and applied research and advanced training to support evidence-based decision-making (EBDM), focusing on Health Technology Assessment (HTA), Evidence Synthesis, Biostatistics, and Economic Evaluation.
RISE-Health
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto
Alameda Prof. Hernâni Monteiro
4200-319 Porto