• Patient preferences and shared decision making
• Decision support systems (DSS) to support preference-and evidence-based patient care
• Consumer Health Informatics
• Evidence-based practice
• Quality Improvement
• DSS for nursing resource management
• Web-based education
• Issues in knowledge representation

The primariy focus of my research in shared decision making and medical informatics is the development, implementation and evaluation of decision support systems (DSS) for preference- and evidence- based patient care, that (1) support clinicians with the best available evidence about disease/ condition specific health problems and appropriate intervention options, (2) assist them in eliciting patient preferences and shared decision making; (3) provide mechanisms whereby patients' preferences are systematically integrated into interdisciplinary care and communicated among care providers; (4) and include methods for outcome evaluation from the patients' perspective as an integrated part of clinical practice. Previous work includes the development and evaluation of a handheld computer-based decision support system for eliciting and including patient preferences for functional performance into rehabiliation care. Current work focuses on decision support systems for preference-and evidence based illness management for cancer patients (adults, children, palliative care).

Other activities related to medical informatics include: (1) the development and evaluation of a decision support system to assist nurse managers in financial management, resource allocation, activity planning and quality control; (2) representation of patient preference concepts in reference terminologies within the context of a longitudinal electronic health record; (3) a web-based Course on patient preferences in health care decision making, and (4) a web-based Clincian Opinion Survey to identify critical indicators for successful implementation and clinically important outcome variables of decision support systems for evidence- and preference based patient care. My second textbook in health informatics has recently been published in Norway.