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Dr Trish Williams

Dr Trish Williams

Dr Trish Williams

Senior Lecturer/Undergrad Co Ord

Telephone: (61 8)  6304 5039  
Email: trish.williams@ecu.edu.au   
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO18.242  

 

Current Teaching

Computer and information security, information warfare, information security standards and practice, communications - data and networking, decision support.

Background

Trish is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer and Security Science at Edith Cowan University and a key researcher in the secau - Security Research Centre. Trish has a PhD and is internationally recognised for her expertise in Medical Information Security. She has over 25 years in the medical health computing arena with 15 years industry experience in General Practice and Pharmacy computing prior to joining academia in 2001. Trish is co-author of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Security Standards and advises to the General Practice Data Governance Council. With over 60 publications on medical information security, she is currently representing Standards Australia at International Standards Organisation (ISO) and HL7 meetings. Trish has been the Associate Editor and Track Chair of the medical information security track of the World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering & Applied Computing. She has collaborated with Royal Holloway University, University of Plymouth and the prestigious St George’s Hospital.

Professional Memberships

  • Australian Computer Society
  • Health Informatics Society of Australia
  • School Council, Peter Moyes Anglican Community School
  • Australian Federation of University Women
  • Business and Professional Women
  • HERDSA – Higher Education (ECU Representative 2005)
  • Australian Information Security Association
  • Research Network for A Secure Australia

Awards and Recognition

University and National Teaching Awards

  • 2009 - ECU Early Careers Grant $25,000
  • 2008 - ECU Faculty Small Grant $3,333
  • 2006 - Carrick Institute Citation for Excellence in Teaching $10,000
  • 2005 - ECU Vice-Chancellor Citation $1,000
  • 2005 - Faculty Teaching and Learning Grant $3,000

Research Areas and Interests

  • Medical informatics and security
  • Healthcare e-health standards
  • Generation Y teaching
  • Decision support systems
  • Healthcare computer and information security
  • Australia’s national e-health system
  • E-health critical infrastructure

Staff Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Edith Cowan University, 2007 .
  • GradCert (Graduate Certificate), Edith Cowan University, 2006 .
  • Master of Science, Edith Cowan University, 2002 .
  • Bachelor of Science, United Kingdom, 1983 .

Research

Recent Research Grants

  • An Empirical Intervention to Reduce Cyber Bullying in Adolescents,  Healthway (WA Health Promotion Foundation),  Healthway - Grant,  2011,  $119,063.

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Book Chapters

  • Williams, T., Giles, M., (2012), Viability of Healthcare Service Delivery Alternatives for the Australian Mining Sector. Global Telehealth 2012 Delivering Quality Healthcare Anywhere Through Telehealth, 170-179, Amsterdam.
  • Williams, T., (2011), Is the biggest threat to medical information simply a lack of understanding?. Health Informatics: The transformative Power of Innovation , 179-187, Netherlands, DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-791-8-179.

Journal Articles

  • Williams, T., McCauley, V., (2012), Sound Foundations: Leveraging International Standards for Australia?s National Ehealth System. European Journal for Biomedical Informatics, 8(4), 35-44, Czech Republic.
  • Williams, T., Gaunt, S., Grieve, G., McCauley, V., Leslie, H., (2012), The Development of a National Approach to CDA: Successes, Challenges and Lessons Learned in Australia. European Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 8(3), 37-44.
  • Coles-Kemp, E., Reddington, J., Williams, T., (2011), Looking at clouds from both sides: The advantages and disadvantages of placing personal narratives in the cloud. Information Security Technical Report, 16(3-4), 115-122, London UK, DOI: 10.1016/j.istr.2011.09.001.
  • Williams, T., (2009), Capturing Culture in Medical Information Security Research. Methodological Innovations Online, 4(3), 15-26, Online, DOI: 10.4256/mio.2010.0003.
  • Williams, T., (2008), When trust defies common security sense. Health Informatics Journal, 14(3), 211-221, Sage Publications London.
  • Williams, T., (2008), In a trusting environment, everyone is responsible for information security. Information Security Technical Report, 13(4), 207-215, London UK.
  • Williams, T., (2008), A Practical Application of CMM to Medical Security Capability. Information Management and Computer Security, 16(1), 58-73, Bingley, United Kingdom.

Conference Publications

  • McCauley, V., Williams, T., (2011), Trusted Interoperability and the Patient Safety Issues of Parasitic Health Care Software. Proceedings of the 9th Australian Information Security Management Conference, 189-195, Perth.
  • Williams, T., (2011), Why Australia's E?Health System Will Be A Vulnerable National Asset. Proceedings of the 2nd International Cyber Resilience Conference, 95-99, Perth.
  • Mahncke, R., Williams, T., (2011), Australian Primary Health Care Check: Who is Accountable for Information Security?. Proceedings of the 9th Australian Information Security Management Conference, 165-171, Perth.
  • Williams, T., (2011), Help or hindrance: The practicality of applying security standards in healthcare. Proceedings of the 9th Australian Information Security Management Conference, 238-244, Perth, Western Australia.
  • Williams, T., (2010), Is cyber resilience in medical practice security achievable?. Proceedings of the 1st International Cyber Resilience Conference, 105-111, Perth, Western Australia.
  • Williams, T., (2010), Improving Medical Information Security using Contextualization Models. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Infocomm Technologies in Competitive Strategies (ICT 2010),, 65-68, Singapore, DOI: 10.5176/978-981-08-7240-3 I-33.
  • McDermid, D., Mahncke, R., Williams, T., (2010), An Information Security Governance Framework for Australian Primary Care Health Providers. Proceedings of the 8th Australian Information Security Management Conference, 62-68, Perth, WA.
  • Williams, T., (2010), Information Warfare: Time for a redefinition. Proceedings of the 11th Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference, 37-44, Perth.
  • Patel, N., Williams, T., (2010), Breaches in medical information security: The problem of reporting. Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Security & Management, (SAM '10), II(12-15 July), 633-636, USA.
  • Williams, T., Mahncke, R., (2010), Small Business - a cyber resilience vulnerability. Proceedings of the 1st International Cyber Resilience Conference, 112-117, Perth, Western Australia.
  • McDermid, D., Mahncke, R., Williams, T., (2010), An Information Security Governance Encounter for Australian Primary Care Health Providers. Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Security & Management, SAM 2010, 637-643, USA.
  • Williams, T., (2010), Medical Information Security: Is it all too hard?. Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Security & Management, SAM 2010, II(12-15 July), 644-650, USA.
  • Williams, T., (2010), An ill-defined problem ? effective biomedical informatics curriculum?. HIC 2010 Handbook of Abstracts & Proceedings CD, 101-107, Brunswick East Victoria.
  • Hearn, K., Williams, T., Mahncke, R., (2010), International relations and cyber attacks: Official and unofficial discourse. Proceedings of The 11th Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference, 7-12, Perth.
  • Williams, T., (2009), What does security culture look like for small organizations?. Proceedings of the 7th Australian Information Security Management Conference, 48-54, Perth, WA.
  • Hearn, K., Mahncke, R., Williams, T., (2009), Culture jamming: from activism to hactivism. Proceedings of the 10th Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference, 13-17, Perth, Western Australia.
  • Mahncke, R., McDermid, D., Williams, T., (2009), Measuring information security governance within general medical practice. Proceedings of the 7th Australian Information Security Management Conference, 63-71, Perth, WA.
  • McDermid, D., Mahncke, R., Williams, T., (2009), Challenges in improving information security practice in Australian general practice. Proceedings of the 7th Australian Information Security Management Conference, 1-5, Perth, WA.
  • Williams, T., Mathew, R., (2008), Can Intrusion Detection Implementation be Adapted to End-User Capabilities?. Proceedings of the 6th Australian Information Security Management Conference, 145-154, Edith Cowan University, Perth WA.
  • Williams, T., Valli, C., (2008), Trust me. I am a Doctor. Your Records Are Safe... Proceedings of the 6th Australian Information Security Management Conference, 155-162, Edith Cowan University Mount Lawley Campus WA.
  • Williams, T., (2008), Can an Adapted Clinical Governance Model be used to Improve Medical Information Security?. Proceedings of the 7th European Conference of Information Warfare, 219-228, Reading UK.
  • Swanson, I., Williams, T., (2008), Virtual Environments Support Insider Security Violations. Proceedings of the 6th Australian Digital Forensics Conference,, 171-178, Perth, Western Australia .
  • Williams, T., (2008), How Addressing Implementation Issues Can Assist in Medical Information Security Governance. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance, 116-125, Plymouth: University of Plymouth..
  • Williams, T., (2008), Is There an Ideal Forensic Process?. Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Security & Management (SAM '08), 598-603, United States of America.
  • Ami-Narh, JT., Williams, T., (2008), Digital Forensics and the Legal System: A Dilemma of our Times. Proceedings of the 6th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, 30-40, Perth, WA..
  • Tank, R., Williams, T., (2008), The Impact Of U3 Devices On Forensic Analysis. Proceedings of the 6th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, 197-203, Perth, Western Australia .

Research Student Supervision

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy,  An Investigation Into Remote Transactions..