tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87332172008-05-12T00:47:37.736+01:00Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.comBlogger639125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-20105011237252799302008-05-12T00:38:00.002+01:002008-05-12T00:43:29.611+01:00

My purpose in writing this is to promote I believe could be an arm of Nurse Informatics expertise in the near future: social and contagious media. Up front I'd like to ask those in the positions of leadership to consider a conference part, or in whole, dedicated to exploring this. I was very pleased to see that many others promoted "The Wisdom of Patients: Health Care Meets Online Social Media"

Variegatedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17164235694530628920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-27701692926389721022008-05-06T21:20:00.003+01:002008-05-06T21:45:35.899+01:00

An interesting report has been published today into the evaluation of the Summary Care Record (SCR) Early Adopter Programme. It highlights many of the difficulties which have been encountered and makes recommendations to improve for the future. The evaluation team led by Trisha Greenhalgh at University College London discusses criticisms of the programme focusing on "implementing a technology

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-5304318828577188092008-05-06T15:08:00.002+01:002008-05-06T15:10:47.390+01:00

Special Issue of UKHIT - New Directions in Health Informatics Education The latest issue of UKHIT (UK Health Informatics today) is now available online (Spring 2008. No 56) This 20 page issue deals with the challenges, opportunities and risks associated with elearning. There are articles describing the philosophy and curriculum of programmes in the UK and the USA. http://www.bmis.org/ebmit/

J_Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03215274359257016419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-3451740175399475272008-05-02T19:28:00.001+01:002008-05-02T19:28:30.524+01:00

Recently Jane Sarasohn-Kahn wrote a report and article on Social media on the Internet are empowering, engaging, and educating health care consumers and providers. IMHO, I thought it was most important article written in 2008, I was wrong, her most current article, Trust Driving People to Web Social Networks for Health Info, is even more important... You can read her most current article...

Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16014609332742259093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-57656000909992847292008-05-01T13:54:00.002+01:002008-05-01T13:58:24.236+01:00

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has today advertised for an e-Health Nurse Adviser. The advert says "This is an opportunity to influence policy and practice in the area of e- Health and to support and engage nursing staff in it. You will participate in UK government and international initiatives and build the RCN’s profile in relation to e-Health issues." Further details & application form

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-13348364604866660442008-04-24T21:33:00.000+01:002008-04-24T21:34:05.144+01:00

From Jane Sarasohn-Kahn... Social media on the Internet are empowering, engaging, and educating health care consumers and providers. While consumers use social media -- including social networks, personal blogging, wikis, video-sharing, and other formats -- for emotional support, they also heavily rely on them to manage health conditions. http://www.chcf.org/topics/chronicdisease/index.cfm?itemID

Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16014609332742259093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-49016403893353800122008-04-21T19:32:00.000+01:002008-04-21T19:33:31.094+01:00

http://www.apfelkraut.org/2008/04/08/open-source-at-med-e-tel-2008/ By Holger Schmuhl, holger.schmuhl@web.de and a link to his web site, http://www.apfelkraut.org/freemedsw/

Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16014609332742259093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-40745826639689541892008-04-14T12:13:00.002+01:002008-04-14T12:22:14.141+01:00

An interesting article in Information Today by William Badke, of Trinity Western University entitled What to Do With Wikipedia challenges the current antipathy in academia towards wikipedia. He suggests that academics need to take on board the reality of digital information sources or be seen as out of touch by their students, and that they should embrace the educational opportunities available

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-85249373794401586832008-04-12T10:38:00.002+01:002008-04-12T10:44:41.054+01:00

NHS Connecting for the health will be running their third annual "A conference for Nurses, Midwives & Healthcare Staff: Cultural Change in Professional Practice - The Information Revolution" on 17th June 08 at the Central Hall Westminster, London The conference aims to: "provide delegates with an opportunity to learn more about the National Programme for IT and how it will deliver better and

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-80359784553807372172008-04-03T10:53:00.002+01:002008-04-03T11:17:49.993+01:00

The NHS Connecting for Health Evaluation Programme has an interesting call for proposals open at the moment. NHS CFHEP 010: Evaluation of the effect of IT on interactions between healthcare workers and patients is designed to "evaluate the effect of IT on interactions between healthcare workers and patients...." and meet the "need to understand how different configurations of IT equipment and

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-80051935325150559152008-04-02T05:34:00.000+01:002008-04-02T05:36:19.587+01:00

Please sign the Nightingale Declaration for Our Healthy World at ­ ­http://www.nightingaledeclaration.net. Each year, we gratefully celebrate International Nurses Week around May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910). At this time in human history, however, the world needs much more than celebration. Nursing shortages in the U.S. and other developed nations are now

Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16014609332742259093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-7821371058232757462008-03-28T01:14:00.001Z2008-03-28T01:14:34.546Z

Good article by Dr Guy Dewsbury on telecare outcomes and lessons to be learned... http://www.icn.csip.org.uk/_library/Resources/Telecare/Telecare_Outcomes/Telecare_London_-_Barnet_-_Guy_Dewsbury.ppt

Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16014609332742259093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-87844228105188636852008-03-14T11:26:00.005Z2008-03-14T11:33:50.293Z

Interested in Obtaining a Graduate Qualification in Health Informatics? You are invited to come along to CHIME OPEN EVENING – 24th April 2008, Thursday CHIME (part of University College London – Royal Free & UC Medical School) will be hosting its sixth Open Evening on Thursday April 28th. The purpose of this event is to publicise our recently revised graduate programme in Health Informatics.

J_Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03215274359257016419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-34495977514939189022008-03-05T07:34:00.005Z2008-03-05T07:45:36.784Z

The Medicine 2.0 Congress will take place in Toronto, Canada on September 4-5th, 2008. This is an international conference, with the focus on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine; it is organized and co-sponsored by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the International Medical Informatics Association, the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, CHIRAD, and a number of other sponsoring

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12001510876858689646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-20830163288062760612008-03-03T14:58:00.004Z2008-03-03T15:08:41.916Z

Prof Graham Wright is looking for help classifying keywords in the emerging Knowledge Base for the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). Background Building on, in part, the Otley outputs, a second phase of work is being jointly funded by IMIA and BCSHIF to develop the knowledge core for IMIA, and the wider international health informatics community. Phase 2 methods and

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-6502631206009055902008-02-27T17:11:00.002Z2008-02-27T17:25:37.387Z

The British Journal of Healthcare Computing and Information Management is currently carrying a news story "NHS to deploy national system for elearning" about the provision of a National Learning Management System (NLMS) as part of the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This will provide both individual employees and their managers access to each persons record of learning. The new system is

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-9457311069750661682008-02-24T09:48:00.003Z2008-02-24T09:57:40.973Z

The 2002 Downing Street briefing about NHS IT discussed below has now been realesed in full text on the wikileaks web site under the heading "Tony Blair 2002 NHS IT briefing" at https://wikileaks.be/wiki/Tony_Blair_2002_NHS_IT_briefing . Wikileaks is an uncensorable version of Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. It combines the protection and anonymity of cutting-edge

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-74271857284175768122008-02-19T19:41:00.002Z2008-02-19T19:48:31.043Z

Computer weekly has several pieces themed around the papers recently released after 3 years of a Freedom of Information Act request. There give some detail about the briefing held in Feb 2002 at which Department of Health staff and industry advisers from Microsoft UK and Cisco laid out plans for IT in the NHS to Tony Blair and several ministers. * Was NHS IT plan agreed before Downing St meeting

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-48324578630038638942008-02-07T12:57:00.000Z2008-02-07T13:09:08.466Z

Unfortunately I will not be in the country to attend the HC2008 event which is to be held in Harrogate UK on the 21st-23rd April. This year the format has been changed to cover the key areas: * the implementation of national programmes; * current priorities and forthcoming challenges; * making innovative technologies work; * improving the capability and capacity of the healthcare-informatics

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-89580936073171461602008-02-07T12:44:00.000Z2008-02-07T12:57:13.157Z

A paper by Chesire GP Amir Hannan entitled "The Paradigm Shift in Healthcare - overcoming challenges in giving patients access to their electronic records" appeared in the first edition (Jan 2008) of the new Journal of Communication in Healthcare. In the article which is available in full text at http://hsp.msgfocus.com/files/amf_henrystewart/project_61/Hannan.pdf he suggests that "Changes in

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-88100492404010375342008-02-05T09:06:00.000Z2008-02-05T09:15:31.241Z

After three years of requests under the Freedom of Information Act Tony Collins of Computer Weekly has finally been successful in his campaign for the release of the briefing papers which led to the creation of the National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT) in the UK's National Health Service. A piece entitled "Secrets of Blair briefing on NPfIT to be surrendered" gives further

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-91527205654607280882008-01-28T13:52:00.000Z2008-01-28T13:57:05.059Z

The latest issues ( Volume 61, Number 1, February 2008) of Health Information on the Internet (HIOTI) has just been published. It includes: TI: Personal health records AU: Childs, Sue TI: Building an accreditation scheme for health and social care information AU: Reid, Graham TI: The Information Accreditation Scheme Standard AU: Reid, Graham TI: Pharmacy AU:

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-83699322409277196092008-01-25T18:39:00.000Z2008-01-25T18:41:00.270Z

Nursing students at Seminole Community College use patient simulators to learn new medical procedures without risking patient safety. The students also use video iPods to study medical procedure demonstrations and listen to lectures. Orlando Sentinel. With the state facing a nursing shortage, the technology is intended to ensure that students graduate ready to work in hospitals. The nursing

Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16014609332742259093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-69896692953540822302008-01-18T11:52:00.000Z2008-01-18T20:19:08.778Z

Today I'm attending an meeting of the HEA HS&P elearning special interest group at the University of Wolverhampton. Pam Moule opened proceedings introducing key speakers, and I followed with an piece on Internet history & movng on to blogs & wikis. I lost the audience when they all started to edit the Wikipedia enries for their institutions. Linsey Duncan-Pitt went next descrbing some of her

Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607263970096550308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-77104037202303505152008-01-17T11:10:00.000Z2008-01-17T14:38:35.730Z

Todays Guardian carries a piece by Ian Sample entitled Dexterity boost from games consoles hones surgery skills which describes a study from the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Centre, in Phoenix, Arizona, which asked eight trainee doctors to spend an hour playing games on a console before "performing surgery". Mark Marshall, the centres director of simulation and training, concluded that "Our

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