Basil Alzougool

Basil Mohammad Hussien Alzougool

PhD Student

Department of Information Systems
The University of Melbourne
Room 5.58a, ICT Building, 111 Barry St, Carlton, Vic, Australia

Phone: +61 3 83441544
Email: basila@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

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About Me

I am a PhD student in the Department of Information Systems and Biomedical Multimedia Unit – The University of Melbourne. I have been awarded a Melbourne International scholarship and Science Faculty Scholarship to undertake my PhD. My main area of interest focuses on Health Informatics. I also have research interests in e-commerce and e-government. I have Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Public Administration from the University of Jordan.

I am currently working towards an understanding of the information needs of consumers of health information systems especially the informal carers, as well as the design features that facilitate access to required information. Informal carers provide free healthcare services for people who are unable to care for themselves, often parents, children, or relatives. They play a major role in assisting and supporting formal healthcare services, and carry out many primary care duties. Despite the importance of informal carers to the community, there has been little research that explores their information needs comprehensively. Understanding these needs assist in decision making and effective care giving. My PhD thesis aims to understand and build a comprehensive picture (depth and breadth) of informal carers’ information needs as experienced by them as well as the design features that facilitate access to required information.

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Research Interests

Health Informatics, E-Commerce, E-Goverment

Thesis

Information Needs of Consumers of Healthcare Information Systems: Conceptualisation of the Experiences of Informal Carers

Supervisors: Dr. Shanton Chang & Dr. Kathleen Gray

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Publications

  1. Alzougool B, Gray K and Chang S (Forthcoming 2009). An In-depth Look at an Informal Carer¹s Information Needs: A Case Study of a Carer of a Diabetic Child.Electronic Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI)[ Vol 4, No 1].
  2. Alzougool B, Chang S and Gray K. 2009. A Taxonomy of Information Needs of Informal Carers  - An Empirical Investigation -  Second International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2009).(Paper No. 38) 161-167. Setubal, Portugal: INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication).
  3. Alzougool B, Chang S and Gray K. 2009. Information Needs of Consumers of Healthcare Information Systems: Conceptualisation of the Experiences of Informal Carers.  In Martins Dr(ed), Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies.  9-17. Setubal, Portugal: INSTICC Press.
  4. Kurnia S, Alzougool B., Ali M and Alhashmi S. 2009. Adoption of Electronic Commerce Technologies by SMEs in Malaysia. Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2009). pp. 1-10, California, United States: IEEE Computer Society.
  5. Alzougool B, Chang S and Gray K. 2008. Towards a comprehensive understanding of health information needs. Electronic Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI). 3 (2): 1-10.
  6. Alzougool B and Kurnia S. 2008. Electronic Commerce Technologies Adoption by SMEs: A Conceptual Study.  Proceedings of the 19th Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2008 (ACIS 2008). 42-54. Christchurch, New Zealand: Canterbury University Press.
  7. Alzougool B, Gray K and Chang S. 2008. Toward a Taxonomy of Information Needs of Informal Carers: A Case Study of a Carer of a Child with Diabetes.  In Grain Editor(ed),Australia's Health Informatics Conference HIC'08 -The Person In the Centre.  1-10. Melbourne, Australia: Health Informatics Society of Australia.
  8. Alzougool B, Chang S and Gray K. 2007. Modeling the Information Needs of Informal Carers.  In Toleman M, Cater-Steel A & Roberts D(eds), Proceedings of the 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2007) . 1 345-355. Toowoomba, Australia: The University of Southern Queensland.
  9. Alzougool B, Chang S and Gray K. 2007. Information Needs, Behaviours and Sources of Informal Carers: Conceptualisation of the Experiences of Informal Carers, Proceedings of the 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems Doctoral Consortium, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia, 4 December 2007

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