tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217Wed, 07 May 2008 10:04:31 +0000http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/blogger.htmlRodBlogger638125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-2770169292638972102Tue, 06 May 2008 20:20:00 +00002008-05-06T21:45:35.899+01:00SCRNPfITCfHSummary Care RecordsEHRConnecting for HealthAn 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 http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/05/report-of-evaluation-of-summary-care.htmlRodtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-530431882857718809Tue, 06 May 2008 14:08:00 +00002008-05-06T15:10:47.390+01:00Special 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/http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/05/new-directions-in-health-informatics.htmlJ_Murphytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-345174017539947527Fri, 02 May 2008 18:28:00 +00002008-05-02T19:28:30.524+01:00Recently 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... http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/05/trust-driving-people-to-web-social.htmlBobtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-5765600090999284729Thu, 01 May 2008 12:54:00 +00002008-05-01T13:58:24.236+01:00RCNjobehealthNursing InformaticsThe 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 http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/05/rcn-vacancy-for-e-health-nurse-adviser.htmlRodtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-1334836460486666044Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:33:00 +00002008-04-24T21:34:05.144+01:00From 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?itemIDhttp://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/04/wisdom-of-patients-health-care-meets.htmlBobtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-4901640389335380012Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:32:00 +00002008-04-21T19:33:31.094+01:00http://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/http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/04/list-of-open-source-software-in-health.htmlBobtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-4074582663968954189Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:13:00 +00002008-04-14T12:22:14.141+01:00wikipediaInformation literacyAn 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 http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/04/wikipedia-academia-health.htmlRodtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-8524937379440158683Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:38:00 +00002008-04-12T10:44:41.054+01:00conferenceCfHNursing InformaticsNHS 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 http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/04/nurses-midwives-healthcare-staff-cfh.htmlRodtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-8035978455380737217Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:53:00 +00002008-04-03T11:17:49.993+01:00clinical informaticsCfHHealth InformaticsThe 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 http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/04/call-for-research-proposals-evaluation.htmlRodtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-8005193532515055915Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:34:00 +00002008-04-02T05:36:19.587+01:00Please 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 http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/04/nightingale-declaration-for-our-healthy.htmlBobtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-782137105823275746Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:14:00 +00002008-03-28T01:14:34.546ZGood 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.ppthttp://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/03/telecare-outcomes-and-lessons-to-be.htmlBobtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-8784422810518863685Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:26:00 +00002008-03-14T11:33:50.293ZInterested 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. http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/03/chime-open-evening-invitation.htmlJ_Murphytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-3449597751493918902Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:34:00 +00002008-03-05T07:45:36.784ZMedicine 2.0IMIAJMIRHealth 2.0Web 2.0The 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 http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/03/medicine-20-congress-in-toronto-sept.htmlPetertag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-2083016328806276061Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:58:00 +00002008-03-03T15:08:41.916ZIMIAclassificationHealth InformaticsProf 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 http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/03/help-needed-classifying-keywords-for.htmlRodtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-650263120600905590Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:11:00 +00002008-02-27T17:25:37.387Zlearning management systemsNHSelearningThe 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 http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/02/national-nhs-elearning-system.htmlRodtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-945731106975066168Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:48:00 +00002008-02-24T09:57:40.973ZNPfITFOI Freedom of InformationTony BlairwikileaksThe 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 http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/02/full-text-of-downing-street-briefing.htmlRodtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-7427185728417576812Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:41:00 +00002008-02-19T19:48:31.043ZNPfITFOI Freedom of InformationTony BlairComputer 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 meetinghttp://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/02/meeting-which-started-npfit.htmlRodtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-4832457863003863894Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:57:00 +00002008-02-07T13:09:08.466ZUnfortunately 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-informaticshttp://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/02/hc2008-conferences.htmlRodtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-8958093607317146160Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:44:00 +00002008-02-07T12:57:13.157ZA 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 inhttp://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/02/patient-access-to-their-health-records.htmlRodtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-8810049240401037534Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:06:00 +00002008-02-05T09:15:31.241ZNPfITFOI Freedom of InformationAfter 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 http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/02/forthcoming-release-of-downing-street.htmlRodtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-9152720565460728088Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:52:00 +00002008-01-28T13:57:05.059ZHIOTIInternet HealthThe 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: http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/01/hioti-toc.htmlRodtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-8369932240927719609Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:39:00 +00002008-01-25T18:41:00.270ZNursing 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 http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/01/florida-nursing-school-taps-ipods.htmlBobtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-6989669295354082230Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:52:00 +00002008-01-18T20:19:08.778Zsocial networkingblogswikiselearningSecond lifeToday 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 http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/01/hea-hs-elearning-sig-meeting.htmlRodtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-7710403720230350515Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:10:00 +00002008-01-17T14:38:35.730Zmedical educationcomputer gamessimulationTodays 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 http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/01/computer-games-in-medical-education.htmlRodtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733217.post-8924231500592037631Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:33:00 +00002008-01-17T11:09:27.486ZTow stories arrived, within five minutes of each other, in my email inbox this morning, both relating to aspects of the Intenet in healthcare. One was positive and one negative. One from The British Journal of Healthcare Computing & Information Management entitled Internet health searches could lead to dangerous results. This covers a report from the US Center for Medicine in the Public http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/2008/01/internet-in-healthcare-postive-negative.htmlRod