Holly Jimison
Research Professor, Interdisciplinary with Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Research interests
- Personal health informatics
- Pattern recognition
- Decision support
- Consumer health informatics
Education
- PhD in Medical Information Sciences, Stanford University
- BS in Mathematics, University of Illinois
Biography
Holly B. Jimison is a professor of the practice in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.
As a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, Jimison has made significant and sustained contributions to the field of biomedical informatics in the areas of pattern recognition, decision support, and consumer health informatics.
Prior to joining Northeastern, Jimison was a medical informatics faculty member at the Oregon Health & Science University, where she researched technology for successful aging and scalable remote care. She then served as a technology advisor for the Big Data Initiative for Monitoring Health Behaviors at Home and in the Environment at the National Institute of Health. She has also served on the executive board of the Oregon Center for Aging & Technology and was president of Oregon’s Health Information Management Systems Society chapter.
Jimison continues to deepen her influence in the field through her research on technology for successful aging and scalable remote care for older adults, including models for tailoring interventions in cognitive exercise, physical exercise, socialization, and sleep management using new behavioral metrics derived from this type of data.
As the director of the Consortium on Technology for Proactive Care at Northeastern University, Jimison leads a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research effort into home monitoring of health behaviors. Her research strives to help address the challenges of complex and noisy streaming data from multiple sources which are used to infer clinically relevant health behaviors.
Recent publications
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Behavioral Informatics and Computational Modeling in Support of Proactive Health Management and Care
Citation: Pavel M, Jimison HB, Korhonen I, Gordon CM, Saranummi N. "Behavioral Informatics and Computational Modeling in Support of Proactive Health Management and Care." IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 62, No. 12, December 2015. -
Designing and Evaluating mHealth Interventions for Vulnerable Populations: A Systematic Review
Citation: Elizabeth Stowell, Mercedes C. Lyson, Herman Saksono, Reneé C. Wurth, Holly Jimison, Misha Pavel, Andrea G. Parker. 2018. Designing and Evaluating mHealth Interventions for Vulnerable Populations: A Systematic Review. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18). ACM.
