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For NHS leaders - Commissioning, workforce development, digital delivery; practising GPs, general practice nurses, practice managers; everyone involved in delivery of primary care and evolving Primary Care Networks
Abstract:
Currently, there is a convergence of three key factors in the global landscape that creates an opportunity for the research community to make fundamental contributions to improving the quality of life of every single citizen. Conversely, failure to recognize and act on this phenomenon may have disastrous effects on multiple levels. The first factor is the unprecedented focus and willingness to invest in the healthcare industry. The second factor is the fact that the prime directive of the healthcare sector, i.e. nothing interferes with the delivery of care, has ramifications on every aspect of information technology used in this domain. The final factor is the recognition that patient empowerment and buy-in will be critical for the advance of health information technology. These factors highlight the fact that there are inherent assumptions in the existing access models that render them ineffective and not applicable for long term use in the healthcare field.
This talk will highlight all these issues and challenge the research community to delve more the industry-specific constraints that require further innovation in the space; possibly necessitating a re-examination of the core assumptions in the field.
Bio:
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Presented: June 9, 2010
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#cilipconf19
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For NHS leaders - Commissioning, workforce development, digital delivery; practising GPs, general practice nurses, practice managers; everyone involved in delivery of primary care and evolving Primary Care Networks
Abstract:
Currently, there is a convergence of three key factors in the global landscape that creates an opportunity for the research community to make fundamental contributions to improving the quality of life of every single citizen. Conversely, failure to recognize and act on this phenomenon may have disastrous effects on multiple levels. The first factor is the unprecedented focus and willingness to invest in the healthcare industry. The second factor is the fact that the prime directive of the healthcare sector, i.e. nothing interferes with the delivery of care, has ramifications on every aspect of information technology used in this domain. The final factor is the recognition that patient empowerment and buy-in will be critical for the advance of health information technology. These factors highlight the fact that there are inherent assumptions in the existing access models that render them ineffective and not applicable for long term use in the healthcare field.
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Bio:
Tyrone Grandison is currently the Program Manager for Core Healthcare Services in the Healthcare Transformation group of the IBM Services Research organization (Hawthorne, New York). His immediate interests are in developing innovative solutions for ensuring patient privacy protection and for integrating information from multiple sources to get more complete views of patients to enable better decision making. Prior to this, Tyrone led the Intelligent Information Systems (Quest) team in the Computer Science department at the IBM Almaden Research Center (San Jose, California). The team pioneered research in Relational Database Privacy, Disclosure-Compliant Query Processing for RFID and Mobile Data Networks, Security Exception Handling in Healthcare Information Systems and Large Scale Text Analysis of Online Data. Tyrone is a Distinguished Engineer of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and has been further recognized by the IEEE (2010 Technical Achievement Award), the National Society of Black Engineers (i.e. Pioneer of the Year 2009) and the Black Engineer of the Year Award Board (i.e. Modern Day Technology Leader 2009, Minority in Science Trailblazer 2010). Tyrone received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica in 1997 and 1998, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in the United Kingdom.
Presented: June 9, 2010
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#cilipconf19
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As countries continue to invest and make strides toward achieving the SDGs and universal health coverage, strong routine health information systems (RHIS) are fundamental to the effort. Well-functioning RHIS provide a wealth of data on a country’s health system, including service delivery, availability of a trained workforce, and reach of interventions, that can be harnessed to identify gaps and support evidence-based decision making. Yet, while many low-to-middle income (LMIC) countries have established a national RHIS structure, there are existing challenges related to the availability, analysis, and use of the data that have yet to be addressed.
One London conversation workshop 18 July slide deck Katie Harrison
Slides from presentations delivered at the One London Involvement workshop on 18 July 2018.
For more information please contact:
amy.darlington@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com
As countries continue to invest and make strides toward achieving the SDGs and universal health coverage, strong routine health information systems (RHIS) are fundamental to the effort. Well-functioning RHIS provide a wealth of data on a country’s health system, including service delivery, availability of a trained workforce, and reach of interventions, that can be harnessed to identify gaps and support evidence-based decision making. Yet, while many low-to-middle income (LMIC) countries have established a national RHIS structure, there are existing challenges related to the availability, analysis, and use of the data that have yet to be addressed.
Improving Access to Healthcare for Impoverished Communities Rotary International
Interested in global public health? Bridge to Health Medical and Dental has worked in partnership with local grassroots organizations in rural communities in southwestern Uganda and Ethiopia to provide education and training, clinical services, and build innovative solutions to complex problems. Come learn about these initiatives, connect with Rotarians who build sustainable collaborations to improve health and education, and be inspired to take action.
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Key topics
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Conference Chair:
Dr Aaron Han, Chief of Department of Pathology, American Hospital, Dubai, UAE
Increase your chances of success, efficiency, and harmony in partnerships during this session with seasoned Rotarians, who will share their lessons learned in the field. You'll receive a template for action that combines traditional hands-on volunteer strategies with multi-sector, multi-organization partnerships, and that uses an entrepreneurial model to empower and create lasting change in communities that need it most.
Established in 1993 by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the ATTC Network is comprised of 10 Regional Centers, 4 National Focus Area Centers, and a Network Coordinating Office. Together the Network serves the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Islands of Guam, American Samoa, Palau, the Marshal Islands, Micronesia, and the Mariana Islands.
Medical Informatics Update 2013 Programpaulgoldfarb
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:The digital future of maternity services, what are the possibilities? 2013 - Professional Midwifery Forum & Exhibition Earls Court, London.
1.
2. Welcome introduction
• Sally Pezaro
• B.a Honours in media and communications
• Direct entry midwifery diploma
• Msc: leadership for health & social care
• Experience of midwifery practices both in the uk &
Africa.
• Interested in exploring the possibilities of the digital
future of maternity services.
3. Where are we now?
• The 2010 White Paper, „Liberating the NHS‟ and the 2012
Health and Social Care Act set out a contemporary
visualization to deliver an NHS that is pioneering,
accomplishes quality and results that are amid the best in the
world.
• These embody a vision of moving forward with technologies in
order to „work smarter‟. Ultimately, the government has set out
a “digital by default” vision for public services CQC (1),
2012:11).
• the Dilnot Report, the Boorman review, the Francis Report
and the tightening of financial belts have all provided
incentives for finding innovative ways of working and greater
engagement with client comment.
4. The future
• New families currently preparing for birth are a technologically
savvy generation: „Generation z‟, (born after 1995) (Sinclair. M,
2013)
• They are referred to as „digital natives‟ (Howe et al, 2000).
• Today‟s society in general is more demanding of instant
information access and patients are requesting online access
via patient portals (Moore, 2011).
• The NHS must prepare itself to support these families and staff
as necessary, and prime itself for tomorrows technological
maternity service needs.
5. Government Digital Service
• The Government Digital Service is a new team within Cabinet
Office tasked with transforming government digital services.
6. The modern mother
the pregnant woman is now documenting and sharing her
pregnancy online
• downloading pregnancy apps
• „tweeting‟,
• „face booking‟,
• „texting‟ recorded digital scan pictures
• and „skyping‟ the new born baby to a global audience
(Sinclair, M, 2013).
7. How can maternity services keep up?
• Virtual clinics/video
conferencing triage.
9. Social media
• health promotion
• support networking
• Engagement with services
• Recruitment and retention
• Antenatal education
• Service planning
• Research
• Client feedback
• Unified Trust performance rating site linked to:
– cnst ratings
– cqc ratings
– Patient feedback
– Obstetric outcomes
– Unit speciality
– Increasing patient choice
– Improving quality outcomes
10. Internet and social media usage in the
UK
• 85 per cent of people in the UK have used the internet (ONS, 2012)
• approximately half of all people in the UK have a Smartphone (a phone able to
connect to the internet) (http://www.pewglobal.org/2012/12/12/social-networking-
popular-across-globe/ )
• over 50 per cent of people in the UK use social media sites
(http://www.pewglobal.org/2012/12/12/social-networking-popular-across-globe/ )
• Only 34.2 per cent of people regularly read a newspaper (nrs, 2013)
• Twitter has 10 million active users in the UK (OFCOM, 2012)
• Facebook is the UK‟s most popular social media platform with two thirds of the UK‟s
40 million internet users having accessed it. (www.internetworldstats.com/stats )
11. Myths surrounding social media
• Its risky
• We don‟t do social media. It‟s not effective and our staff don‟t
have access to IT equipment
• I haven‟t got time to use social media and no one is interested
in what I‟m doing.
• Our IT department have blocked access to the internet for
personal use. They have concerns about security and
confidentiality
• We‟ve decided not to use it until we‟ve seen some good return
on investment (ROI) data
(Dean Royles - Chief executive, NHS Employers)
12. Briefing 91 June 2013 Social media for chief executives;
the essential guide (http://www.nhsemployers.org )
• Social media is here to stay.
• NHS chief executives need to be increasingly socially media literate.
• Social media platforms give the power to hear about and influence at
local, regional and national levels.
• Twitter offers easy-to-join networks of NHS professionals and
stakeholders, broadening perspectives.
• Future leaders can communicate ideas, express vision and engage
stakeholders fully through social media.
13. Everyone counts: Planning for Patients
2013/14
• These key points include social media.
• Increased transparency = being more open online.
• Patient participation and better customer service involve
going to where the patients are already talking –
Twitter, forums and blogs.
• Better data requires collection and open sharing of
anonymised data for comparison
• driving more choice = Twitter is an excellent way to
share, discuss and promote these data sets to the wider
public.
15. Health apps for service users
• Heart attack detectors
• Sleep monitors
• Pulse monitors
• Blood pressure watches
• Mental health assessments
• Vital signs cameras
• Bodily fluid sampling
• Mobile dopplers
16. Automated patient led clinics
• Frees up clinical time
• Allows for a more conversational relationship
• Puts women in charge of their own wellbeing
• Gives ownership of care to the client
Making responsibility a reality.
17. Health apps for health professionals – the
possibilities
• Areas of poor resource may use proforma practice
guidance apps for rural health workers
• Students may use proforma apps
• Nice guidance app
• Institutional apps
• Diary apps for note taking
• Mileage apps
• Workload sharing apps
• Time sheet upload apps
• Unified intranet based apps
18. Is it time we had a unifying pda system?
'midwives need hand held
devices to enter data at the
point of care to free up their
time'
(jane cummings Chief Nursing Officer
rcm annual conference 2012)
19. In the community?
• In car based devices currently used by
taxi‟s, road recovery services and police,
is there a place for this in maternity
services?
– Record mileage
– Staff safety
– Workload monitoring
– Satellite navigation
– Time management
– Data entry
20. VIDEO AND VOICE RECORDING devices
• OTHER EMERGENCY SERVICES ALREADY HAVE THESE IN USE.
• Protect the client and staff by improving safety and accuracy of events.
• Improved contemporaneous record keeping and time keeping in
emergency situations
• Opportunity for clients to debrief more though roughly and accurately
following critical events.
• Increased evidence in litigation cases.
• Learning through medical errors.
• Concerns, ethics and data protection.
21. Time for a centralized medical records
database?
• Digital, electronic health records are gradually being introduced world wide (Catwell et
al, 2009, Protti, 2007)
• NHS Care Records Service boosted by a £1bn technology fund (Sept, 2013).
• The new Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham has an online portal that allows patients to view
and update their own medical records so doctors can get real-time updates.
• CAN IT Reduce medical errors and promote appropriate care choices?
• WORRIES OVER Relaxation in privacy rights?
• Possible increased reluctance for disclosure?
• Can we barcode patient data or even microchip clients?
• Women concerned about interagency communications?
• in a Medix poll over half of all GPs said they would not upload their patients' data without consent
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• The Big Opt Out campaign
22. To conclude…
“The question should not be why
do women not accept the
service that we offer?", but
"why do we not offer a service
that women will accept?"
(mahmoud Fathalla professor of obstetrics and gynaecology - egypt)
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