Dr Peter Croll is well known in the area of e-Health privacy having organized national symposiums to discuss critical issue. He currently chairs HIPS, a Health Informatics Privacy and Security forum for the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA Ltd.) where he is a national board member and the chair of the Queensland Branch committee. He is serving on the technology committee for the Australian Law Reform Commission to assist in the proposed revisions for the Privacy Act. He was chair of the recent national Health Privacy Futures Conference (HPF'08) www.healthprivacy.org.au in Brisbane and will be chairing the forthcoming HISA's premier Health Informatics Conference, HIC'09on 19-21 Aug in Canberra.
Peter has previously held professorships at two leading Australian universities where he has been responsible as a manager and leader in his field. He has been a Head of School of IT, the Director of world class research centres, research institutes and academies. He was appointed as a National fellow for CSIRO's Preventative Health Flagship initiative in 2006. Dr Croll continues to research in e-health and supervises many Higher Degree students in this area. He has produced over 100 publications in IT appearing in scientific publications and peer reviewed journals with over 50 focusing on e-Health (as shown below). He has been engaged as a consultant for the Australian and British Governments, the Brisbane City Council, Private Industry, Professional Societies and Academia.
Currently, Dr Croll holds two directorships on national boards:
Director, Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA Ltd.) www.hisa.org.au
Director, International Association of Privacy Professionals (www.iappANZ.org)
Best International Paper Citation
Dr Peter Croll’s journal paper "Investigating risk exposure in e-health systems" in Int. Journal of Medical Informatics, was selected for citation and inclusion in the 2007 Yearbook of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). The yearbook represents "the most original, excellent state-of-the-art research in the area of health and biomedical informatics of the past year". This paper was the only publication from Australia to be selected under this best papers category (see also below for a list of his refereed ehealth publications).
Key Note and Invited Presentations by Dr Croll
Invited presenter "Health Information Security & Privacy Management" Healthcare Security and Safety conference, Sydney Nov 2008.
Invited Keynote for the Annual State Conference of the Australian College of Heath Services Executive (ACHSE) - QLD, Gold Coast. May 2008.
Invited Keynote for Saudi Arabian e-Health Conference 2008 "Towards National e-Health", King Faisal Conference Hall (Intercontinental Hotel) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. March 17-19, 2008
Korea Keynote Speech invitation in Busan Korea "Advances in Data Security and Privacy with Healthcare applications", 2 Feb 2007
Invited presenter "Privacy and Security in National e-Health Systems" for IACITS-2007: 3rd Indo-Australian Conference on Information Technology Security, 9th -10th July 2007, ISI QUT, Brisbane.
Invited seminar presentation "Security and Safety of Dependable Systems" at Naples University, Direttore Laboratorio CINI ITEM-Informatica e Telematica Multimediali Complesso Univ. di Monte S.Angelo. 1 May 2007.
Presenter at ehPASS07 "Privacy and Security Symposium for Health Information" S017, e-Health Privacy and Security Symposium hosted by Medinfo2007, 19th Aug 2007
Invited presentation for the HISA Aged Care Informatics Australia Conference 2007 "Security and privacy of the Smart Home", 20th Aug 2007.
Invited panel speaker: "Global Standardisation of Cert. Req. & Fostering Management Specialists" At Session 080, Joint Panel for IMIA’s WG 4 (Security) and WG 1 (Education), and JHIFT Joint Panel Session. 21st Aug, Medinfo2007.
Invited forum speaker for DoHA (Dept. of Heath and Aging) QLD DoHA, Regional Health Services Forum, "Information Technology in Health - websites focus" 29th March 2007, Brisbane.
Invited keynote presentation "Privacy Compliance - the challenges and the role for ICT", National Symposium for e-Health Privacy and Security ehPASS06, Brisbane, 25 Oct 2006.
Invited guest workshop speaker: "How to maximally utilise your register's clinical information while remaining legally and ethically compliant", AHRDMA Information Confidentiality Workshop, 23rd October 2006, Brisbane
Invited Keynote presentation at conference "From Mathematics to Management - Privacy and Security Risks with Electronic Health Data Integration" for the Annual State Conference of the Australian College of Heath Services Executive (ACHSE) - QLD, Gold Coast. 19th May 06.
Invited guest speaker "The Preventative Health Fellowship" the Postgraduate Medical Institute broadcast across the Singapore General Hospital via their ‘Smart Classroom’, 10th April 2006
Invited Presentation "Outcomes of the Fellowship on Preventative Health" at P-Health Science Retreat, Mantra Erskine Beach Resort, Lorne VIC, 21-23 March 2006.
Invited presentation at first workshop for the ARC e-research project "Ultra-secure Access to Sensitive Health Data", Brisbane, 16th March 2006.
Invited presentation titled: "Minimizing the Security and Privacy Risks of HDI’s Health Data Linkages", e-Health Research Colloquium, Royal Brisbane & Woman's Hospital, 29 March 2006
Invited as one of 12 key international presenters on e-health security (the only Australian) at the International Medical Informatics Association working conference WG4 "Security in Health Information Systems" in Dijon, France, 29th April 2006.
Invited Presentation on Fellowship Project "The P-Health Demonstrator" to E-Health Research Centre, Brisbane, 20th Jan 2006
Invited Presentation "Minimizing Security and Privacy Risks when Integrating Critical Health Data", 16th December, Research Network for a Secure Australia, RNSA workshop, UNSW, Sydney.
Guest speaker keynote presentation "Minimizing Security and Privacy Risks with Helath Data Integration (HDI)" at the Health Informatics Society Australia (HISA) Qld Branch AGM, 1st Dec 05.
Invited presentation: "Mechanisms for Ultra-secure Access to Large Repositories of Sensitive Data", at the ARC’s special initiative workshop on e-research, Monash University, 3rd Nov 05.
Invited Seminar Presentation "Q.U.i.P.S. – a Quality Model for Investigating Risk Exposure in e-Health Systems" University of Southern Queensland, 23rd March 2005.
Invited speaker "Communicating with Adversaries – the differing perspectives of IS and CS", Australian Professors and Heads of Information Systems ACPHIS 2004, 29 Sept.
Invited Guest Speaker "Extreme Testing in Extreme programming" Software Engineering Australia Queensland, Nov 2004.
Publications
The following represent Dr Croll's recent publications in the area Health Informatics (or ehealth).
PRCroll, Privacy Impact Assessments – the Organisation versus the Individual’s viewpoints, the Health Informatics Conference, Melbourne, HIC 2008.
PRCroll, Privacy and Security of Health Data – embracing the individual not just leaving it to the experts, the Health Informatics Conference, Melbourne, HIC 2008.
V.L. Narasimhan and P.R. Croll, Communicating Security Policies to Trusted e-Health Information Systems: A Specification Process based Approach, in Proceeding (619) Telehealth and Assistive Technologies - 2008
PRCroll, Special Issue: Health Information Privacy and Security, electronic Journal of Health Informatics ww.eJHI.net, Vol 3, No 1 (2008).
V. Liu, L. May, W. Caelli, PRCroll, Strengthening Legal Compliance for Privacy in Electronic Health Information Systems: A Review and Analysis, electronic Journal of Health Informatics, 2008; 3(1): e3.
Liu, V., Caelli, W., May, L., Croll, P., Open Trusted Health Informatics Structure, Australasian Workshop on Health Data and Knowledge Management, ACSW 2008 in conjunction with the Australian Computer Science Week, Wollongong.
Luis Franco, Tony Sahama, PeterCroll, Security Enhanced Linux to Enforce Mandatory Access Control in Health Information Systems, Australasian Workshop on Health Data and Knowledge Management, ACSW 2008 in conjunction with the Australian Computer Science Week, Wollongong.
Richard Au, PeterCroll. Customer-centric and Privacy preserving Identity Management for e-Health Systems. Proceedings of the 41th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-2008), IEEE Computer Society Press, Hawaii, 7 - 10 Jan 2008.
Croll P.R. and Croll J. (2007). Investigating risk exposure in e-health systems, in International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2007. Vol. 76, Issue 5-6, pp 460–465. (Cited in the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) ‘2006 Year Book’ representing the best Health Informatics papers in 2006 internationally).
PeterCroll, Matt Henricksen, Bill Caelli, Vicky Liu "Utilizing SELinux to Mandate Ultra-secure Access Control of Medical Records" full paper presented at the International Medical Informatics conference, MEDINFO 2007, Brisbane, Australia.
Jeffrey Soar and PeterCroll "Assistive technologies for the frail elderly, chronic illness sufferers and people with disabilities – a case study of the development of a Smart Home", at the 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 5-7 Dec 2007, Toowoomba.
PRCroll, and H Morarji, Perceived risk: a model for maintaining trust in government e Health services, in press to appear in the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, JTAER, 2007.
Liu, V., Caelli, W., May, L., Croll, P., "A Sustainable Approach to Security and Privacy in Health Information Systems", the 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 5-7 Dec 2007, Toowoomba.
Liu, V., Caelli, W., May, L., Croll, P., & Henricksen, M. (2007). Current Approaches to Secure Health Information Systems are Not Sustainable: an Analysis, presented at the MEDINFO 2007, Brisbane, Australia.
Zim Chan, PeterCroll, Anthony Maeder and David Hansen "Agent-Based Secure Aggregation of Distributed Health Data", presented at the MEDINFO 2007, Brisbane, Australia.
Tony Sahama and PeterCroll, Telemedicine with Data-Driven Approach, 3rd National Conference of the Telemedicine Society of India, held in conjunction with the 12th ISfTeH International Conference, on 2nd & 3rd November 2007, in Chennai, India.
P. R.Croll and J. Soar, Queensland Smart Home Initiative’s Homecare Telemedicine, 3rd National Conference of the Telemedicine Society of India, held in conjunction with the 12th ISfTeH International Conference, on 2nd & 3rd November 2007, in Chennai, India.
Tony R. Sahama and PeterR. Croll, A data warehouse architecture for clinical data warehousing, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 249, Proc. fifth Australasian symposium on ACSW frontiers - Vol 68, ISBN ~ ISSN:1445-1336 , 1-920-68285-X, 2007, pp: 227-232.
Matt Henricksen, William Caelli, PeterCroll, Securing grid data using mandatory access controls, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 249 Proc. fifth Australasian symposium on ACSW frontiers - Volume 68 in the Fifth Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research (AusGrid 2007), ISBN ~ ISSN:1445-1336 , 1-920-68285-X, pp: 25 - 32
PRCroll & J Croll: Investigating risk exposure in e-health systems, IMIA WG 4 Data Protection Working Conference on e-health security, Dijon, France, 27-29 April 2006, the International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI) ed. Prof. dr. A. Hasman, Elsevier.
PRCroll, Are undue Privacy concerns putting our Health Research at high risk? Privacy Law Bulleting, LexisNexis Butterworths, vol. 2, no.10, April 2006, pp139-140.
PRCroll, Privacy Compliance – Managing the Risks when Integrating Health Data, the Health Informatics Conference Sydney, Aug. HIC 2006.
Zim Chan, PR Croll, David Hansen and Anthony Maeder, The Use of Agent Technologies for Preserving Privacy with Health Records when Linking Federated Databases the Health Informatics Conference Sydney, Aug. HIC 2006.
PRCroll, From Mathematics to Management – Privacy and Security Risks with Electronic Health Data Integration, proceedings of the Annual State Conference of the Australian College of Heath Services Executive (ACHSE) - QLD, Gold Coast, 19th May 06.
PRCroll and Hasmukh Morarji: Perceived Risk: Human Factors affecting ICT of Critical Infrastructure, proceedings of the RNSA workshop on "The Social Implications of Information Security Measures upon Citizens and Business", University of Wollongong 29th May 06.
PRCroll and J Croll, Quality Assurance of Electronic Health Information Systems using Q.U.i.P.S., Health Informatics Conference Melbourne, HIC 2005.
J Croll, Josie DiDonato and PRCroll, Using Usability – Practical ways to ensure effective implementation of Health Information Systems, ACHSE, May 19-21, Gold Coast, Queensland 2005.
PRCroll and D Hansen, Sharing Health Data: Privacy & Trust, Proceedings of the ICT Conference, ICT Centre CSIRO, Lunar Park, Sydney, Nov. 2005
PRCroll, J Croll and Josie DiDonato. Usability of Health Information Systems: A Critical Factor Influencing Health Outcome Management, Health Outcomes Conference, Canberra, Aug 2005
PRCroll. J Croll, Usability Evaluations in Community Health Systems, the International Conference on qualitative research, QualIT 2004, Nov 2004, Brisbane, Australia.
KT Win, PRCroll, Engineering Dependable Health Information Systems, book chapter in: Creating Knowledge Based Healthcare Organization, eds: Wickramsinghe N., Gupta J.N.D., Sharma S. K., IGP pub. Chapter VIII, 2004, pp.91-110, 2004.
PRCroll, J Croll, Q.U.i.P.S. a Quality Model for Investigating Risk Exposure in e-Health Systems, Medinfo Journal 2004; Vol. 2004, pp. 1023-7. ISSN: 1569-6332.
H Song, PRCroll, KT Win, A Prototype of Patient e-Consent in Access Control to Electronic Medical Records, Journal of Korean Society of Medical Informatics, pp.s267-s270, 2003
KT Win, PRCroll, J Cooper, C Alcock, Issues of Privacy, Confidentiality and Access in Electronic Health Record, Journal of Law and Information Science, vol.12, is.1, pp 24-25, 2002
J Croll, PRCroll, The System versus The User: An Evaluation of CHIME from Two Different Perspectives, Health Informatics Conference (HIC2004), 26/27 July, Brisbane, Australia.
PRCroll, J Croll, Q.U.i.P.S. a Quality Model for Investigating Risk Exposure in e-Health Systems, International conference on Health Informatics, MedInfo2004, San Francisco, Sept 2004.
KT Win, PRCroll, J Cooper, Dependability: Important factor for the success of electronic health record systems, HIC2003/RACGP12CC, Health Informatics Society of Australia Ltd (HISA) and Royal Australian College of General Practioners (RACGP), Sydney, Australia. Victoria, Australia, pp.1-7, 2003.
KT Win, PRCroll, J Cooper, Privacy, confidentiality and consent of electronic health record systems, HIC2003 RACGP12CC, Health Informatics Society of Australia Ltd (HISA) and Royal Australian College of General Practioners (RACGP), Sydney, Australia, August 10- 12, 2003.
KT Win, J Cooper, PRCroll, Engineering Pragmatic Patient Consent in Electronic Health Record Systems, World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2003, Sydney, Australia August 24-29
Win K.T., PRCroll, J Cooper, Introducing Risk Assessments to Electronic Medical Record Systems, Proceedings of Second International Conference on the Management of Healthcare and Medical Technology on: The Hospital of the Future, Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 28-30, 2002
J Croll, PRCroll, J Cooper. Usability of Electronic Medical Records: HIC2002, Melbourne, Australia, August 4- 6, 2002, pp:110-111, ISBN 0 9585370 9 7.
H Song, KT Win, PRCroll, Patient e-consent mechanism: Models and Technologies, Proceedings of CollECTeR 2002, Melbourne, Australia., December 1, 2, 2002
KT Win, PRCroll, J Cooper, Setting a safety standard for electronic medical records, HIC2002, Melbourne, Australia, August 4- 6, 2002, ISBN 0 9585370 9 7.
KT Win, PRCroll, Risk Assessment of Electronic Medical Record Systems, 11th Health Informatics Annual conference in NSW, Hunter Valley. February 16-17, 2002.
KT Win, H Song, PRCroll, J Cooper, Implementing patient's consent in electronic health record systems, Proceedings of CollECTeR 2002, Melbourne, Australia., December 1, 2,2002
J Soar and PRCroll, Data Quality, e-Health and Knowledge Management, in HIC2001 Realising Quality Care Proceedings, Health Informatics Conference, Health Informatics Society of Australia, Canberra, 29-31 July 2001. ISBN 0 9585370 8 9
KT Win, PRCroll, J Cooper, C Alcock, Issues of Privacy, Confidentiality and Access in Electronic Health Record, In: Proceedings of Information Technology and Emerging Law, Wollongong, September 28, 2001.
KT Win, PRCroll, J Cooper, C Alcock. Issues of Privacy, Confidentiality and Access in Electronic Health Records. First International Conference on Information Technology and the Emerging Law, IteL, Wollongong, 27 Sept, 2001. ISBN 0 86418 664 9
