In this project he provides support and oversight of the data capture, management of the ECRF Platform Alea16 and supports the BIO-Statistics.

He helps to underpin and support the multi-disciplinary informatics requirements, including provision of SaaS data capture and management platforms (ALEA) which the Southampton team currently are using for capturing CLL data. His team has extensive experience in running and developing software for clinical and surgical audit and patient management systems in chronic regional pain, Pura syndrome and faecal immunology programmes. He is also technical lead for the Southampton BRC Data Sciences theme and is working with industry partners to support large complex cloud platforms to store large multidimensional clinical and Omic Datasets, including biostatistical tools and secure data sharing capabilities.

As a co-Investigator on this proposal, he ensures all the necessary technical and scientific contribution to this Accelerator award programme.

Professor James Batchelor is the Professorial Fellow of Clinical Informatics and Healthcare Innovation at the University of Southampton. He is also the Director of the Clinical Informatics Research Unit and the EDGE Programme, which is a collaborative group of NHS hospitals and research organisations working together to support and improve the Research and Development process through the development of the EDGE Software. James is also a Committee member and advisor to the Republic of Ireland e-Health Programme as well as being involved in the development of clinical research standards, Genomics and Integrated BioMedical Informatics Platforms. He has worked in this area of research for over 19 years and is well-known within the research community, both in the United Kingdom and overseas.

His current interests in research and clinical trials standards and interoperability, the Clinical User interface, and cloud-based platforms for health care and research.

He is the director of the EDGE Programme, which aims to improve the delivery of health research though a collaboration of partners within the UK, Europe, Canada, with emerging collaborations in, New Zealand and South Africa.

The fundamental areas of his interest are; the Protocol Representation Model (PRM) based on the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), electronic delegation logs, research management terminology, and the clinical interface.

His research into the PRM is predominantly concerned with the challenges presented by the use of the Clinical Research Protocol and its integration with the Electronic Health Care Record (EHR) within a clinical setting.