tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87332172009-07-02T16:06:53.526+01:00Eclectic news and views on health informatics and elearning, by Rod Ward &amp; colleagues. UK bias but worldwide coverage. If you want to join the membership so that you can post comments - just let me know <a href="mailto:rod@rodspace.co.uk">rod@rodspace.co.uk</a><br> <a href="http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/blogger.html">Return to lastest posts</a><br>Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.comBlogger764125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-27407705026330496042009-07-02T16:06:00.001+01:002009-07-02T16:06:53.538+01:00

Dear Nursing ColleagueI am writing to invite you to become a VIP member of a new website I Aiming to launch on 1 July It is called ‘Community Nurses Network’ and, under the slogan of ‘Harnessing the knowledge of nurses outside hospital settings’, my aim is to provide a forum for both learning and mutual support. What I have said in the introduction to the site is "Nurses who work in hospitals

From Bob Pyke Jrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16014609332742259093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-68253709167853477182009-06-24T00:55:00.001+01:002009-06-24T00:55:53.444+01:00

Social Life of Health Informationhttp://bit.ly/bzMeo

From Bob Pyke Jrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16014609332742259093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-58374347784465178702009-06-22T17:40:00.000+01:002009-06-22T17:41:19.247+01:00

This came off of Facebook, but it did get my attention,A systematic review of the use of telehealth in Asian countrieshttp://articles.icmcc.org/2009/06/22/a-systematic-review-of-the-use-of-telehealth-in-asian-countries

From Bob Pyke Jrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16014609332742259093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-17222731386149108812009-06-20T20:53:00.001+01:002009-06-20T20:57:07.877+01:00

The Who Sees What? project is a new website designed to give ordinary people the opportunity to discover, discuss and decide about the new ways in which the NHS wants to use electronic patient records.Who Sees What? is a collaboration between the New Economics Foundation and the Centre for Science Education at Sheffield Hallam University. It’s funded by the Wellcome Trust.I feel these are

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-19813001351590160622009-06-19T21:27:00.011+01:002009-06-22T15:31:11.962+01:00

Today I attended an interesting seminar themed around Education in Health Informatics jointly organised and hosted by the University of the West of England and ideal training services.The day was chaired by Peter J Murphy a consultant anaesthetist at the Bristol Children's Hospital, and executive member of the UK Faculty of Health Informatics who set the scene by comparing his experiences at a

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-11008037115836536352009-06-17T08:29:00.002+01:002009-06-17T08:35:57.030+01:00

IMIA, the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA – www.imia.org), has launched a new blog-based news and information service at http://imianews.wordpress.com. The aim will be to provide items about IMIA, its members, and its activities, as well as material from the wider health and medical informatics communities globally. This will contribute to IMIA's strategic goal of

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001510876858689646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-88636973845380152802009-06-16T11:42:00.002+01:002009-06-16T11:49:33.014+01:00

Next week (28 June – 1 July) will see the NI2009 conference (10th International Congress in Nursing Informatics) taking place in Helsinki Finland.The programme looks interesting covering:Nursing Informatics – Connecting Health and Humans • Individualized Care with Interoperable Information Systems • Improvement in Health Care Governance • Innovative Education Transforming Future Health

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-71715343843454427432009-05-15T21:42:00.003+01:002009-05-15T21:59:49.485+01:00

The Higher Education Academy Subject, Centre for Health Sciences and Practice, E-learning Special Interest Group will be discussing Rapid Elearning – Tools of the trade.The workshop, is to be held on Friday 26th June 2009 and will be hosted by SONET Applied Research Centre/RLO-CETL, School of Nursing, Midwifery & Physiotherapy, University of NottinghamThe programme includes sessions on Creating

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-50274641815228046742009-05-12T15:56:00.001+01:002009-05-12T15:59:54.307+01:00

You are warmly invited to join us on Friday 19 June at the University of West of England for a seminar on education in health informatics.Responding to both the current and future needs of education in health informatics remains a considerable yet exciting challenge. New healthcare technology is available in many Trusts and PCTs nationally. Clinical and non clinical staff need to be equipped

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-71254713944801535442009-04-29T13:50:00.002+01:002009-04-29T14:06:25.658+01:00

A group of nurses, midwives, technicians and e-learning specialists were musing on the problems they faced in creating scenarios for teaching in SL. From their frustration the idea of a UK Nurse and Midwife Education group in SL was born.We are holding our first meeting in SL on 5th May at 0930 if you are interested in using SL for teaching (or even if you only have an unformed idea) do please

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16666092630632093998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-23875211903568328772009-04-14T13:30:00.002+01:002009-04-14T13:34:48.905+01:00

The Centre for Health Informatics, City University London are holding an Open Evening on 12 May 2009 (6pm-9pm).The evening is designed to showcase activities in the Centre including:Invited talks byPeter Knight (Programme Director of NHS Connecting for Health's Research Capability Programme)Prof Denis Protti (University of Victoria, Canada)Specialist presentations byProf Jonathan Kay (CHI,

Gill Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107859329965198286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-71225961781858399012009-03-31T20:29:00.003+01:002009-03-31T20:34:31.835+01:00

The latest edition of HI NOW the newsletter of the BCS health informatics community has just been piblished.Contents include:* Industry news * HC reshaped for the future * Bellamy to cover the foundations upwards * Secure sharing of documents and images * Web 2.0 woven into health information's future * Is health informatics growing up? * ProRec-UK set up to represent UK on standards *

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-25036001910238987982009-03-31T11:46:00.002+01:002009-03-31T11:50:22.700+01:00

Readers of this blog might be interested in a study day in London on 20 May 2009 which will look at the Impact of Emerging & Disruptive Technologies, for more information see http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/organisation/chi/news_and_activities.html

Gill Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02107859329965198286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-88454065509767704282009-03-30T14:27:00.003+01:002009-03-30T14:38:14.328+01:00

The final newsletter of the National Library for Health has just been published.This edition celebrates the past 10 years of the National Library for Health and looks towards to the future of NHS Evidence. It also includes pieces on:* The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement bid farewell to the National Library for Health* What Will Happen To The National Library for Health* NHS Evidence

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-68308293229672228522009-03-26T20:33:00.003Z2009-03-26T21:16:17.757Z

Today I took another trip to London, this time for a UK Faulty of Health Informatics Think Tank at the Cass Business School, City University.Bev Ellis took on the unenviable task of trying to chair the day and she welcomed participants, including Faculty board members and Peter Knight from Connecting for Health and set out the aims for the day around sharing research. She highlighted the

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-26037184240687828572009-03-26T17:10:00.003Z2009-03-26T17:25:15.640Z

As Bob Pyke has already mentioned (see post of 22 March), the Med-e-Tel 2009 conference takes place next week, 1-3 April, in Luxembourg (www.medetel.eu). Thanks to Bob's recruitment, Peter Murray will be there, and presenting in the tele-nursing session. Unoftunately, Bob will not be able to be there this year - so I'll have to wait to get the promised beer out of him ;-)Peter will be blogging

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001510876858689646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-10967938731996601912009-03-24T08:44:00.000Z2009-03-24T08:48:03.451Z

Please find below reminder information about the Call for Submissions for MedInfo2010, the 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, to be held in Cape Town, South Africa on 13-16 September, 2010 (www.medinfo2010.org).The conference theme is "Partnerships for effective e-Health solutions", with a particular focus on how innovative collaborations can promote sustainable solutions to

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-87754588504549537542009-03-23T20:10:00.003Z2009-03-23T20:36:36.427Z

Today the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust published a major report on the Database State. In it Ross Anderson and colleagues chart the rise of public sector databases which impact on everyones lives.The report arose from the loss by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs of two discs containing personal information about nearly 50% of the population and a series of high profile fiascos and data loses and

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-61852192429990055902009-03-22T18:49:00.001Z2009-03-22T18:49:55.101Z

When it comes to eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT, Med-e-Tel is the meeting place with a proven potential for Education, Networking and Business among a global audience with diverse professional backgrounds. . This years opening session will include Global Telemedicine and eHealth Update (with European Commission, International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth, International

From Bob Pyke Jrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16014609332742259093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-80787696692479026742009-03-18T20:38:00.003Z2009-03-18T21:48:12.865Z

Today I travelled to London for a connecting for health conference relaunching the “Learning to Manage Health Information” strategy.Learning to Manage (LtM) was first launched in 1999 with a refresh in 2002 to set guidelines for the inclusion of health informatics into the curriculum for education for clinicians. It’s effectiveness in achieving it aims was limited and therefore it has been

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-64905912510285474122009-03-16T00:04:00.002Z2009-03-16T00:08:55.729Z

London International Conference on Education (LICE-2009), 9-12 of November, 2009 in London, UK(www.liceducation.org)The London International Conference on Education (LICE) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The LICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education.The aim of LICE is

RAnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-47784830191293998772009-03-12T21:19:00.003Z2009-03-12T21:46:27.609Z

I went back to Walsall today for the final day of the Higher Education Academy, Health Sciences and Practice Festival of Learning.The opening keynote presentation was given by Professor Jill Thistlethwaite, Director of the Institute of Clinical Education at the University of Warwick.She gave some reflections on Interprofessional Education including her experiences in Australia and Canada. Her

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-8000669929158487582009-03-11T21:45:00.004Z2009-03-14T15:01:45.741Z

Today I've had a "Day in the Bay" - the subtitle of the Royal College of Nursing's Conference "Moving technology into practice" - and the bay in question was Cardiff Bay as the conference was at the Wales Millenium Centre - an impressive venue I'd not visited before.The day was opened by Tina Donnell the Director of RCN Wales. She dealt with housekeeping issues and then described her impressions

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-32729736418669786062009-03-10T20:09:00.003Z2009-03-10T21:07:00.165Z

Today I traveled to the University of Wolverhampton's Wallsall Campus for the first day of the Higher Education Academy Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre, Festival of Learning. I went primarily to put up a poster reporting the work of a project I was involved i led by Dr Pam Moule at UWE & funded by the HEA subject centre in which we carried out a survey and case studies to identify the

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-24984063092398758912009-03-03T17:01:00.001Z2009-03-03T17:11:58.252Z

Clinicians, from the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, and Academics in the field of Health Informatics, from the University of the West of England, have joined together to evaluate knowledge sharing across the NHS. We aim to look at knowledge sharing both within the NHS and between the NHS and external organisations. We have developed an on-line survey which is aimed not only at NHS

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