Researchers


Anna Kharko
PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher & Research Fellow Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University
Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, UK

Research interests:

  • Patients’ Online Record Access
  • Digital healthcare & eHealth
  • Chronic pain
  • Psychophysiology of pain & anxiety

Annika Bärkås
PhD in Health Informatics
Uppsala University
Department of Women’s and Children’s Health

Research interests:

  • Mental health and patients access to records in psychiatric care

Fotograf: Mikael Wallerstedt

Åsa Cajander
Coordinator of the DOME Consortium
Professor in Human-Computer Interaction
Associate Professor in Computer Science
Uppsala University
Department of Information Technology

Research interests:

  • IT and Work
  • Sociotechnical Systems
  • Digital Work Environment
  • Patient Empowement

Jamie Linnea Luckhaus
PhD student, M.Sc. in Public Health (MPH)
Uppsala University
Department of Women’s and Children’s Health

Research interests:

  • Digital solutions for self-care/-management of chronic conditions
  • AI-tools for disease prognosis and medication response
  • Parkinson’s disease care and management
  • Patient involvement in research, PPI(E)

Charlotte Blease
Researcher
Department of Women’s and Children’s Health
Uppsala University & Digital Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

Research interests:

  • Digital Work Environment
  • Patient-Doctor Interactions
  • Online Record Access
  • Health ethics

Josefin Hagström
PhD in Health Informatics, Researcher
Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University

Research interests:

  • Adolescent and parental/proxy access to the electronic health record
  • Digital mental health tools
  • Language and understanding

Isto Huvila
Professor in Information Studies
Uppsala University
Department of ALM (Archival science, Library & information science, and Museum & heritage studies)

Research interests:

  • Information and Knowledge Management
  • Health data
  • Patients’ and professionals’ health information behaviour and use
  • Health information literacy
  • Effects and usage of new health information infrastructures
  • Health informatics and eHealth

Maria Hägglund 
Professor in Implementation Science
Associate Professor in Health Informatics
Uppsala University, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, and Uppsala University Hospital.
Uppsala MedTech Science & Innovation

Research interests:

  • Patient empowerment
  • User-centred and participatory design and evaluation of eHealth
  • Patients as partners in clinical research
  • eHealth for self-tracking and quantified self
  • Patient’s learning and knowledge acquisition

Bridget Kane
Docent in Information Systems
Karlstad University Business School 
Research Interests:

  • Medical Teamwork
  • Technology applications to improve quality and safety in healthcare
  • Clinical decision-making and diagnostic work
  • Record keeping
  • Patient engagement

Gunnar Klein
Professor School of Business
Örebro University


Jonas Moll
Assistant professor in Informatics at Örebro University

Research interests:

  • Human-computer interaction
  • eHealth services for patients
  • Mediated communication
  • Shared decision making in healthcare

Gunilla Myreteg
Senior Lecturer in Business Studies
Uppsala University
Department of Business Studies

Research interests:

  • Design and Use of IT for a variety of information purposes in organizations
  • Enterprise Systems/Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
  • Management Accounting and Management Information Systems
  • Management Reporting and Information Systems
  • Work Environment and IT
  • Work Roles, Professions, and IT

Hanife Rexhepi
Associate Professor in Informatics
University of Skövde
School of Humanities and Informatics

Research interests:

  • Process-oriented IT development
  • Healthcare Knowledge Management
  • Implementation of evidence-based practice
  • Patient Empowerment
  • Health information needs and information behaviours of patients, their families and carers

Rose-Mharie Åhlfeldt
Professor in Informatics, Coordinator for the Privacy, Information Security and CyberSecurity – PICS Collaboration Arena, Member of the DOME management team
University of Skövde
School of Informatics

Research interests:

  • Patient safety and patient privacy
  • Information Security, Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection
  • Process-oriented IT-development
  • Patient Empowerment

Therese Scott Duncan
PhD in Health Informatics
Post-doctoral Researcher

Participatory eHealth and Health Data Research Group, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University

Research interests:

  • Self-empowerment
  • Usability & user-centred designs
  • Personal eHealth solutions
  • Motivation & behaviors for users of personal eHealth solutions
  • Implementation research

Sofia Ouhbi
Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University

Research interests:

  • Requirements Engineering
  • Software Quality
  • Software Sustainability
  • Connected Health

Magdalena Stadin
Post Doc, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University

Research interests:

  • Work Environment
  • Digital Stress

Shweta Premanandan
Post Doc, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University

Research interests:

  • eHealth Services for patients
  • Software Quality
  • Software Sustainability
  • Connected Health


Elham Rostami
Assistant professor in Informatics at Örebro University

Research interests:

  • Information security management
  • Cybersecurity and Privacy in eHealth

Marcus Persson
Associate professor in Sociology, Institution of Behavioral Sciences and Learning, Linköping University

Research interests:

  • Digital welfare technology and transformation of care work
  • Technlogy and emotions

Maral Babapour Chafi
PhD in Human-Technology-Design

Research Lead at Institute of Stress Medicine, VGR and Adj. Lecturer at Division Design & Human Factors, Chalmers University of Technology

Research interests:

  • Change in socio-technical systems
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Occupational Health and Safety

Carolina Garcia Sanchez
PhD student, Dep of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University

Research interests:

  • Health informatics, including data science, machine learning, and AI in healthcare
  • Digital health ethics
  • Public health and digital innovation

Sara Riggare
Researcher at Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University; Participatory eHealth and Health Data Research Group

Research interests:

  • Digital health, co-design, and self-tracking, centering the patient as a knowledgeable partner