Dr. Nathan Kumasenu Mensah

Dr. Nathan K. Mensah is a Health Informatician and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast. He received an MSc (Mathematics) from the Donetsk National University, in 1995 and MSc (Health Informatics) from the University of Ghana in 2007. He started his research career in 1997 with the Navrongo Health Research Centre. He has been involved in many high profile clinical research studies. Notable among them are WHO (Study 13); a double-blind placebo-controlled, multi-center study and a randomized controlled efficacy and safety study (WHO, Study 15), carried out in Komfo-Anokye Teaching Hospital. He was also data manager for the cluster randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled intervention study carried out in Navrongo in collaboration with LSTMH. He was the work package 7 coordinator for the multi-country QUALMAT project (www.qualmat.net) in Ghana. His research interests are in field of Medical Informatics; testing of new medical devices and decision support systems. He holds a PhD in Health Informatics from the University of Heidelberg. His current research work have been in the assessment of the adoption and use of electronic health record systems to support evidence-based decision-making, the evaluation of digital health technology on clinical processes, health outcomes and resources. Other areas include the application of qualitative techniques to explore factors influencing the adoption and use of digital health technology for effective healthcare delivery. Nathan is skilled in the use of statistical packages such as Stata, IBM SPSS and QSR Nvivo software for qualitative data analysis.