Informatics update: June 2008 part 1
Dear all
Here is the latest update - enjoy!
Consultations:
NHS Security Management Service (England) Marking the electronic care records of violent patients (PDF). Comments - by the end of June - most welcome!
Consultation has now begun on the development of version 4 of the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). IT professionals, their employers and those responsible for their education and training are invited to participate. Everyone who has an interest in IT skills can comment on the existing skills definitions and make suggestions for new content. The consultation will run through to September and SFIA version 4 is due to be released before the end of 2008.
Results of the initial consultation on the review of guidance to doctors, ‘Confidentiality: Protecting and providing information’ (2004) is now available on the GMC website. There you can read more about the background to the review, read a literature review commissioned in the early stages of the review on public and professional attitudes to privacy and read a summary of responses to this consultation.
In the news:
Google Health is online.
BBC: New blow for NHS e-record system. Plans to computerise the NHS in England could face further delays after a contract with a key supplier was terminated. Negotiations have broken down with Fujitsu, who had been due to implement the plan in the south of England.
Jobs
Research Associate Health Services Research Group, School of Health & Related Research (ScHARR) Ref No R06373 Closing Date: 13th June, 2008 Salary: £26,665 - 30,013 per annum. This is an opportunity to work at the centre of a growing multi-disciplinary research team and in collaboration with the Universities of Bath, Ulster and Sheffield Hallam to deepen understanding of the potential for technology to support people in the management of their own health care needs at home. The aim is to make real improvements to the health and well-being of older people, disabled people and people with long-term conditions. Further information on the project can be found at: www.thesmartconsortium.org/ (smart 2). Applicants should hold, or be in the latter stages of research leading to a PhD. Applications from people with equivalent experience will also be considered. IT literate with experience in gathering, synthesising and presenting information in accessible ways, applicants should have skills in quantitative and qualitative research and ideally experience of health services research. The post is available immediately until 31 January 2012
Social Care Information Standards Manager Band 8b £42,064 - £52,002 pa, Permanent Based Leeds - The Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care (ISB HaSC) provides an independent mechanism for the assurance and sign off of Information Standards for use in the NHS, Social Care and work with other agencies in England. This exciting role has the responsibility for ensuring that all aspects of adult Social Care information requirements are taken into account in the assurance of information standards going through the Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care process (ISB HaSC). With a relevant degree level qualification in Social Care or Informatics; you will also have public sector experience in the field of social care information. The post holder will be Subject Matter Expert in this area, and maintain that knowledge and expertise in the area of adult Social Care information in order to provide expert advice and guidance to standards developers and policy sponsors. This role will require regular national travel. For an informal discussion please contact Jane Millar, Head of Information Standards Services by e-mail: jane.millar@nhs.net To apply please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk or email: csh.hrteam@nhs.net Closing date: 25th June 2008.
Events
Royal College of Nursing proudly presents - e-Health: we’re UP FOR IT –are you? a lunchtime meeting, sponsored by the Information in Nursing Forum on 16 July from 12md – 2pm (buffet lunch provided) Venue: Seminar Room 2, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Edinburgh University, Chancellors Building, Little France Crescent. This is promising to be a most interesting event with presentation of new data from the RCN pre-reg e-Health educational project and discussion on options to develop local e-Health Community of Practice. To register your place please email bbaker@bournemouth.ac.uk
eHealth 2008 - Electronic healthcare for the 21st century: September 8th and 9th, City University, London EC1. This event is devoted to analyze the role that eHealth will play in the delivery of healthcare records across the globe. Call for papers is now on at www.electronic-health.org
Resources
The first NMAHP eHealth MKN newsletter was recently published (ok, I know…it stand for Nursing, Midwifery & Allied Health Professions eHealth Managed Knowledge Network) at:
Summary Care Records publications: A range of Summary Care Records material is now at hand to cover 'concept training for GP Practices'.
NHS CFH: Research Capability Programme - first regular update. Professor Sir Alex Markham, Chair of the Research Capability Programme, provides the first in a series of updates on how the programme is developing.
A new electronic resource, launched recently, aims to share nursing, midwifery and allied health professions examples of good practice and innovation in the use of information to support healthcare delivery and improve healthcare, from a national and international perspective. These examples are essentially 'stories' that may stimulate new ideas and actions in the reader and listener. The using information-improving healthcare website is at www.usinginfo.org
NHS Choices: Map of Medicine Health guides. These present the different steps of a patient journey, from symptoms to diagnosis and treatment, in easy to follow charts and are designed to provide patients with information about their condition and available treatments.
Articles of interest:
Nelson-R; Staggers-N: Implications of the American Nurses Association Scope and Standards of Practice for nursing informatics for nurse educators: a discussion. Nursing-Outlook. 2008. Mar./Apr. 56(2). p93-4.
Skiba-D; DuLong-D: Using TIGER vision to move your agenda forward. Nursing-Management-USA. 2008. Mar. 39(3). p14-6.
Horton-K The use of telecare for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: implications for management. J-Nursing-Management. 2008. Mar. 16(2). p173-80.
Dean-Osgood-L: Innovative care: telecare and nurse call services. Nursing-and-Residential-Care. 2008. Mar. 10(3). p143-4.
BMC Health Services Research: An economic analysis of email-based telemedicine: a cost minimisation study of two service models. This analysis provides a useful economic model for organisations contemplating the use of an email-based telemedicine system.
Journal of Medical Internet Research JMIR): Social uses of personal health Information within PatientsLikeMe, an Online Patient Community: What Can Happen When Patients Have Access to One Another’s Data. The project suggests "how patients who choose to explicitly share health data within a community may benefit from the process, helping them engage in dialogues that may inform disease self-management" and recommendations are made to enhance this.
JMIR: Evaluation of Internet-Based Technology for Supporting Self-Care: Problems Encountered by Patients and Caregivers When Using Self-Care Applications. Patients’ and caregivers’ expectations did not correspond with their experiences of the use of the Internet-based applications for self-care.
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making: The interpretation of systematic reviews with meta-analyses: an objective or subjective process? The objective of this study was to determine the discordance in interpretations when meta-analysts are presented with identical data.
That all folks!
Best
Sharon Levy (Mr)
Informatics Adviser
Royal College of Nursing
Ph 07778677268
sharon.levy@rcn.org.uk