NHS Commissioning. Practice based commissioning (2007 - 2013)
NICE Fellow (2021-2022)
Honorary Senior Lecturer (University of Keele)
Honorary Research Fellow (LSHTM)
Vice Chair, Primary Health Care Specialist Group, British Computer Society
Professional member, British Computer Society (BCS)
Fellow, Faculty of Clinical Informatics (2022-2023)
Member Telehealth working group of International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
ISO Taskforce on Telehealth and Virtual Care (TVC)
Facilitating evidence-based implementations
Service redesign roles, maximising individual self-care and independence
Establishing relationships internationally to deliver a connected health environment
Presentations
2024
Proposal for a Patient Centered Health Information Framework for Clinical and Personal Data Movement. 34th Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) Conference, Athens, Greece (August 2024). (Accepted for presentation)
Digitalising Clinical Guidelines: the Challenge of Patient’s Preferences. 34th Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) Conference, Athens, Greece (August 2024). (Accepted for presentation)
PUSHing patient’s preferences. Health economics Study Group (HESG) Conference, Warwick, UK (July 2024)
Taking the patient’s preferences into account in the anticoagulation decision: largely lip-service? 20th International Conference on Wearable, Micro & Nano technologies for Personalized Health, Rende, Italy (May 2024)
Do Shared Decision-Making and Patient Decision Aids Take Patient's Preferences Seriously? 20th International Conference on Wearable, Micro & Nano technologies for Personalized Health, Rende, Italy (May 2024)
2023
Inferring causality is preference-sensitive - we need a Book of Who as well as Why. EFMI Special Topic Conference 2023. Telehealth Ecosystems in Practice. Torino, Italy (October 2023)
The patient's own health data repository and discharge letters. EFMI Special Topic Conference 2023. Telehealth Ecosystems in Practice. Torino, Italy (October 2023)
International collaboration for telehealth. Co-chair panel. EFMI Special Topic Conference 2023. Telehealth Ecosystems in Practice. Torino, Italy (October 2023)
Why we should, and how we could, forget about OverDiagnosis and OverTreatment in the clinical encounter. (August 2023)
Are evidence-based guidelines doomed to produce OverDiagnoses? Preventing Overdiagnosis, Copenhagen, Denmark (August 2023)
Value-based medicine can eliminate over- (and under-) diagnosis. Preventing Overdiagnosis, Copenhagen, Denmark (August 2023)
Decision support for enhanced all-context shared decision making and generic decisional competence. Workshop. Medical Informatics Europe, Sweden (May 2023)
2022
The Causal Plausibility Decision in Healthcare. 19th International Conference on Wearable, Micro & Nano technologies for Personalized Health, Oslo, Norway (November 2022)
Individualising the patient's life expectancy is essential for optimal prescribing in clinical practice - Abstract - Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference, Calgary, Canada (June 2022)
Is remote patient monitoring the future for digital primary care? Primary Health Care Specialist Group of the British Computer Society, 25 March 2022
2021
Communicating About Mortality in Health Decision Support: ‘What and Why and When, and How and Where and Who’. 18th International Conference on Wearable, Micro & Nano technologies for Personalized Health, Genoa, Italy (November 2021)
How Integrated Care Systems can use baseline assessment tools and quality standards. NICE Fellows workshop (October 2021)
Post COVID-19: Is digital the future of primary care? Primary Health Care Specialist Group of the British Computer Society, 19 March 2021
2020
Multicriteria Decision Support would avoid OverDiagnosis and Treatment. EFMI STC2020, Finland, 27 November 2020.
Patients with multiple Long-Term Conditions: meeting the challenges of Personalised Decision Making. pHealth 2020, Prague, Czech Republic, 16 September 2020
Evaluations of decision support tools are preference-sensitive and interest-conflicted : the case of deliberation aids. pHealth 2020, Prague, Czech Republic, 16 September 2020
Statistical compassion - moving to coherent involvement of equity considerations in clinical and commissioning decision making. European Society for Person Centered Healthcare, London, UK (February 2020)
2019
Fashioning change in health care: the adoption and assimilation of technology. Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference, Sydney, Australia (December 2019)
Preference-sensitive multi-criterial decision support can avoid the over-testing produced by mono-criterial guidelines: the case of bone health. Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference, Sydney, Australia (December 2019)
A Generic Rapid Evaluation Support Tool (GREST) for clinical decisions. The 17th World Congress of Medical and Health Informatics, Lyon, France (August 2019)
A Multi-Criterial Support Tool for the Multimorbidity Decision in General Practice. 16th International Conference on Wearable, Micro & Nano technologies for Personalized Health, Genoa, Italy (June 2019)
Shared decision-making with the empowered person not the dependent patient: the ethical and legal implications for guidelines. European Society for Person Centred Healthcare, London, UK (March 2019)
pre 2019
mHealth and Diabetes. Odense Research Group, Denmark (May 2018)
Online Triage Consultations. Technology Enabled Care Event, UK (April 2018)
How mHealth Helps People with Diabetes Manage their Condition and Live a Normal Life. Moderator and two presentations. Nordic Mobile Healthcare Technology Congress, Stockholm (Nov 2017)
Using the NHS Platform to Create Healthcare Apps that Matter. Nordic Mobile Healthcare Technology Congress, Stockholm (Nov 2017)
mHealth Delivery within the new NHS Digital Framework. Keynote speaker. Moderator and two presentations. Nordic Mobile Healthcare Technology Congress, Stockholm (Nov 2016)
Innovation and delivery of personalised Technology Enabled Care. Moderator and two presentations. Nordic Mobile Healthcare Technology Congress, Stockholm (Nov 2015)
Introducing Technology-Enabled Health Care: A Case Study of U.K. Community Health Care – EuroMed Academy of Business, Kristiansand, Norway (Sept 2014)
Scalable tele-health delivered in a dynamic healthcare and wellness environment – Connected Health Leadership Summit, Oulu, Finland (June 2013)
Diabetes Care – Finalist ‘Care Integration Awards’, London (July 2012)
ECH Alliance members sharing success stories – 4th European Connected Health Leadership Summit, Barcelona (May 2012)
How does a research active environment support NHS Trusts in improving services, meeting their targets and improving outcomes?, Villars Switzerland (Feb 2012)
A Strategy for Long Term Conditions and Telehealthcare, Presentation to CCG GPs (Jan 2012)
How does a research active environment support NHS Trusts in improving services, meeting their targets and improving outcomes?, Presentation and panellist, West Midlands North Comprehensive Local Research Network Strategy Day (Sept 2011)
How is Connected Health making a difference on the ground? Who’s needs are we really meeting?, Presentation and panellist, European Connected Health, Brussels (Jun 2011)
Tele-healthcare, Villars, Switzerland (Feb 2011)
NHS Reforms and Practice Based Commissioning, Villars, Switzerland (Feb 2007)
New Zealand Development Programme, NHS Leadership centre (Evaluate and compare the benefits and adverse effects in two health care systems through objective analysis) (Jan 2005)
Preliminary Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea in General Practice, Trinity College, Dublin (Sept 1993)
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Publications
2024
International collaboration for Telehealth Standardization. MEIJER Wouter; MARTINS Henrique; RAJPUT Vije Kumar (2024) (Panel paper awaiting acceptance)
Proposal for a Patient Centered Health Information Framework for Clinical and Personal Data Movement. VELTRI Pierangelo; MEIJER Wouter; RAJPUT Vije Kumar (2024). Studies In Health Technology and Informatics. (accepted for publication)
Digitalising Clinical Guidelines: the Challenge of Patient’s Preferences. RAJPUT Vije Kumar; KALTOFT Mette Kjer; DOWIE Jack (2024). Studies In Health Technology and Informatics. (accepted for publication)
Taking the patient’s preferences into account in the anticoagulation decision: largely lip-service? DOWIE Jack; KALTOFT Mette Kjer; RAJPUT Vije Kumar (2024). Studies In Health Technology and Informatics. DOI: 10.3233/SHTI240059.
Do Shared Decision-Making and Patient Decision Aids Take Patient's Preferences Seriously? DOWIE Jack; KALTOFT Mette Kjer; RAJPUT Vije Kumar (2024). Studies In Health Technology and Informatics. DOI: 10.3233/SHTI240049.
Will ‘Computable’ Clinical Guidelines Be Compatible with Personalised Care? KALTOFT Mette Kjer; DOWIE Jack; RAJPUT Vije Kumar (2024). Studies In Health Technology and Informatics. DOI: 10.3233/SHTI240036.
2023
Inferring causality is preference-sensitive: we need a Book of Who as well as Why. RAJPUT Vije Kumar; KALTOFT Mette Kjer; DOWIE Jack (2023). Studies In Health Technology and Informatics. DOI: 10.3233/SHT1230735.
Why we should, and how we could, forget about OverDiagnosis and OverTreatment in the clinical encounter. RAJPUT Vije Kumar; KALTOFT Mette Kjer; DOWIE Jack (2023). Preventing Overdiagnosis, Copenhagen, 2023. Oral Abstracts. August 2023. https://ebm.bmj.com/content/28/Suppl_1/A12
Are evidence-based guidelines doomed to produce OverDiagnoses? DOWIE Jack; KALTOFT Mette Kjer; RAJPUT Vije Kumar (2023). Preventing Overdiagnosis, Copenhagen, 2023. Oral Abstracts. August 2023. https://ebm.bmj.com/content/28/Suppl_1/A37.2
Value-based medicine can eliminate over- (and under-) diagnosis. DOWIE Jack; KALTOFT Mette Kjer; RAJPUT Vije Kumar (2023). Preventing Overdiagnosis, Copenhagen, 2023. Abstract. August 2023. https://ebm.bmj.com/content/28/Suppl_1/A24.1
Telehealth as a component of One Health: a Position Paper. Arindam Basu; Vije Kumar Rajput; Marcia Ito; Prasad Ranatunga; Craig Kuziemsky; Gumindu Kulatunga; Inga Hunter; Najeeb Al-Shorbaji; Shashi Gogia; Sriram Iyengar. (2023). Yearb Med Inform. 2023 Aug;32(1):19-26. DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-1768728.
2022
The Causal Plausibility Decision in Healthcare. (2022). RAJPUT, Vije Kumar; KALTOFT, Mette Kjer; ; DOWIE, Jack; (2022). Studies In Health Technology and Informatics. DOI: 10.3233/SHTI220965.
Individualising life expectancy is necessary for optimal prescribing. RAJPUT, Vije Kumar; DOWIE, Jack; KALTOFT, Mette Kjer; (2022). Studies In Health Technology and Informatics. DOI: 10.3233/SHTI220918.
Telehealth as a means of enabling health equity. Kuziemsky C, Hunter I, Udayasankaran JG, Ranatunga P, Kulatunga G, John S, John O, Flórez-Arango JF, Ito M, Ho K, Gogia SB, Araujo K, Rajput VK, Meijer WJ, Basu A. Yearb Med Inform. 2022 Jun 2. DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1742500.
2021
Communicating About Mortality in Health Decision Support: ‘What and Why and When, and How and Where and Who’. DOWIE, Jack; KALTOFT, Mette Kjer; RAJPUT, Vije Kumar; (2021). Studies In Health Technology and Informatics. DOI: 10.3233/SHTI210570
Telehealth and the COVID-19 Pandemic: International Perspectives and a Health Systems Framework for Telehealth Implementation to Support Critical Response . Basu, A; Kuziemsky, C; Magdala de Araújo Novaes; Kleber, A; Sales, F; Al-Shorbaji, N; Florez-Arango, J; Gogia, B; Ho, K; Hunter, I; Iyengar, S; John, O; John, S; Kulatunga, G; Rajput, V; Ranatunga, P; Udayasankaran, J. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33882598/
2020
Multicriteria Decision Support would avoid OverDiagnosis and Treatment. RAJPUT, Vije Kumar; DOWIE, Jack; KALTOFT, Mette Kjer; (2020). Studies in health technology and informatics. DOI: 10.3233/SHTI200717
Measures of decision aid quality are preference-sensitive and interest-conflicted 2: empirical measures . KALTOFT, Mette Kjer; DOWIE, Jack; RAJPUT, Vije Kumar; (2020). Studies in health technology and informatics. DOI: 10.3233/SHTI200717
Measures of decision aid quality are preference-sensitive and interest-conflicted 1: normative measures. DOWIE, Jack; KALTOFT, Mette Kjer; RAJPUT, Vije Kumar; (2020). Studies In Health Technology and Informatics. DOI: 10.3233/SHTI200717
Patients with Multiple Long-Term Conditions: meeting the challenges of Personalised Decision Making. RAJPUT, Vije Kumar; DOWIE, Jack; KALTOFT, Mette Kjer; (2020). Studies in health technology and informatics. DOI:10.3233/SHTI200652
Evaluations of decision support tools are preference-sensitive and interest-conflicted : the case of deliberation aids. DOWIE, Jack; RAJPUT, Vije Kumar; KALTOFT, Mette Kjer; (2020). Studies in health technology and informatics. DOI:10.3233/SHTI200643
Are Clinical Decision Support Systems compatible with patient-centred care? RAJPUT, Vije Kumar; DOWIE, Jack; KALTOFT, Mette Kjer; (2020). Studies in health technology and informatics, 270. pp. 532-536. ISSN 0926-9630 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/shti200217.
Ethics in telehealth: comparison between guidelines and field experience – the case for learning health systems. Kuziemsky, C; Hunter, I; Gogia, B; Iyenger, S; Kulatunga, G; Rajput, V; Subbian, V; John, O; Kleber, A; Basu, B; Florez-Arango, J; Al-Shorbaji, N; Mandirola, H-F; Meher, S. Ethics in Telehealth in IMIA YearBook 2020 (International Medical Informatics Association). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32303097/
2019
Fashioning change in health care: the adoption and assimilation of technology. RAJPUT, Vije Kumar; CROPPER, Steve (2019). Preventing Overdiagnosis, Sydney, 2019 Oral Abstracts December 2019. https://ebm.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_2/A46.2
Preference-sensitive multi-criterial decision support can avoid the over-testing produced by mono-criterial guidelines: the case of bone health. KALTOFT, Mette Kjer; DOWIE, Jack; RAJPUT, Vije Kumar; (2019). Preventing Overdiagnosis, Sydney, 2019 Oral Abstracts December 2019. https://ebm.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_2/A26.2
A Generic Rapid Evaluation Support Tool (GREST) for clinical decisions. DOWIE, Jack; RAJPUT, Vije Kumar; KALTOFT, Mette Kjer; (2019). Studies in health technology and informatics, 264. pp. 576-580. ISBN 0926-9630 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/shti190288
Decision support to address the tragi-comedy of the Health Service Commons. DOWIE, Jack; RAJPUT, Vije Kumar; KALTOFT, Mette Kjer; IHEA (International Health Economics Assocoation) Basel July 2019
A multi-criterial support tool for the multimorbidity decision in general practice. RAJPUT, Vije Kumar; KALTOFT, Mette Kjer; DOWIE, Jack; (2019). Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 261. pp. 205-210. ISSN 0926-9630 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-975-1-205.
From 'equity-sensitive' clinical practice guidelines to equity-inclusive person-as-citizen decision support. DOWIE, Jack; RAJPUT, Vije Kumar; KALTOFT, Mette Kjer; (2019). HESG (Health Economics Study Group) January 2019. 17 Pages; Abstract 300, text 7383, references1017
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Memberships
European Connected Health Alliance (ECH Alliance)
Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)
British Medical Association (BMA)
British Computer Society (BCS)
Faculty of Clinical Informatics (FCI)
Telehealth working group of International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)