Apologies for cross posting.
Health Informatics – ‘stimulating the debate’
December 2nd 2002.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dis/disresearch/hirg/Hirgconference/index
.htm
Dear Colleagues
The inaugural HIRG Conference is on the near horizon; the venue is the
International Convention Centre in Birmingham; and the date is December 2nd
2002.
Why attend?
The conference has been planned to bring together speakers of international
standing to raise awareness of issues concerning the delivery of high
quality clinical information to identified stakeholders. The speaker list
comprises colleagues from industry, academia, the commercial sector and the
UK health service.
Tom Jones, VP and Chief Medical Officer, Oracle Corporation will give the
keynote address – he will talk about supporting patient participation in
creating the e-record. Edith Sterrick of Boston Scientific will provide an
indication of how industry and academia can collaborate to achieve ‘fit for
purpose’ solutions to healthcare problems. Academia is then represented by
Di Millen, Head of Informatics Development and Academic Relations of the
NHS IA, who will discuss the role of the fledgling NHS University. Rod
Ward, the Gateway Leader for OMNI/NMAP electronic information service will
then demonstrate the information NMAP resource. From the commercial sector,
we have John Chelsom, Managing Director of CSW Ltd. He will show how the
development, implementation and evaluation of CSW Case Notes™ has been used
in one of UK e-records Beacon sites. Home-based measurements must also be
incorporated into the e-record managerial system. Ardo Reinsalu, Managing
Director of an Estonian information company, will indicate the challenges
and rewards of home-based cardiac monitoring.
From home based measurement to the surgeon-patient interface will be
covered by Tom Spyt, Chief Cardiac Surgeon at the Glenfield Hospital in
Leicester. He will talk about the use of a web site, ‘yourheart.org.uk’ for
the management of post-surgical patients. Finally, Dr Mayur Lakhani, VP
Royal College of General Practitioners, will indicate the future of
information and communication technologies within the primary care setting.
As you can see, the contributions promise to ‘stimulate the debate’ from a
number of perspectives and add to the evidence that the long-awaited
emergence of Health Informatics, as a discipline, will be a cornerstone to
future NHS information strategies. An opportunity to discuss the
integration of the various standpoints for the benefit of the emerging
health informatics discipline will be facilitated both by a discussion
session at the end of the day and the establishment of a knowledge
community of practice to continue the debate.
The programme has potential to provide great benefit for all healthcare
professionals working in the primary and secondary care areas, academics
who have an interest in the use of health information, healthcare vendors
who have an interest in information provision, other healthcare industries
who wish to gain a ‘watching brief’ on current developments in the
healthcare information sector, and the healthcare media.
I hope that you can join us December 2nd.
To register* please go to:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dis/disresearch/hirg/Hirgconference/index
.htm
If you have any problems, please contact [log in to unmask]
*Registration fee includes morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea.
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