Last minute changes have meant that the location of Stand 8 has moved to the NHS Health Informatics Careers & Professionalism zone rather than the main Hall. Look out for THIS, The Health Informatics Service.
For anyone unable to come there is a wealth of info on the links below.
http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/systemsandservices/pathology/modernising
http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/systemsandservices/pathology/modernising/communications
Have a nice weekend
Rick
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If you work in Pathology IT you might be interested in the pathology content of the HealthCare2010 IT conference in Birmingham next week www.hc2010.co.uk. The entry to the exhibition is free and there will be a lot of interesting new technology on display.
In main exhibition hall a number of suppliers will be showing some of the newer versions of their lab and order coms systems. - www.hc2010.co.uk/conference/exhibitors.php
On the upper floor of the exhibition (stand no. 8), The Heath Informatics Service from NHS Calderdale and Huddersfield will be displaying their new national electronic lab to lab service. "One of our key innovation areas is our partnership with X-Lab Limited (www.x-labsystems.co.uk) to provide a pioneering Lab-to-Lab messaging system developed with the support of Accenture, Microsoft, Leeds Pathology Laboratory and the University of Leeds. The X-Lab product will be available to view on our stand this year." This is in live use by the Greater Manchester Pathology network and is handling volumes of tests with great user feedback.
The work on the National Laboratory Medicine Catalogue will also be on display on the same stand (stand 8, upper floor). The "Catalogue" is governed by the RCPath and will provide the definitive national coding for all tests. You can see how the work is progressing - Biochemistry and haematology are expected to be completed for full public viewing in 4-5 weeks.
In the conference:
I am talking on the issues of data quality in requesting and reporting in particular on the safety issues which are developing when path results are combined on clinical systems. "The hidden dangers of mixing clinical data across systems in the absence of scientific understanding" - Dr Rick Jones, Associate Clinical Director, Senior Lecturer and Consultant Chemical Pathologist
Jonathan Kay will be presenting his fantastic vision of where we should be using everyday tools to gain benefit. "Using everyday technologies in healthcare" - Prof Jonathan Kay, Professor of Health Informatics, City University London and Consultant Chemical Pathologist Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust
Mike Murphy will be showcasing what Blood Transfusion have achieved almost uniquely with the Blood Tracking Approach- safety and cost improvement. "Blood transfusion - the development and implementation of an end-to-end electronic clinical process" - Prof Mike Murphy, Professor of Blood Transfusion Medicine, University of Oxford and Consultant Haematologist, NHS Blood and Transplant and Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals.
There will be several talks about what happens when you open up pathology data in GP systems in some cases with shared clinician and patient access:
"Quality and safety at the point of care: the acute medical take". Tej Desai, SpR in Elderly and General Medicine, Worthing Hospital, West Sussex
"Real time digital medicine" Dr Amir Hannan, GP and Primary Care IT Lead for NHS North-West
And for anyone who remembers CPD4IT - there is a big push to get better recognition for IT staff - long overdue:
"Professionalising IT in healthcare: development and implementation of an education programme." Prue Hayes, Programme Manager CfH, South Staffordshire Health Informatics Service; Hanifa Shah, Professor of Information Systems, Staffordshire University.
"Getting the funding to the active HI professionals - investment in the coal face or the ivory tower?" Paul Woolman, Chairman, Faculty of Health Informatics; Nicola Perrin, Senior Policy Adviser Strategic Planning and Policy Unit, The Wellcome Trust; Dr Janet Valentine, MRC.
And finally a challenge to some of the Data Protection myths from a legally trained doctor.
"Does information governance kill patients?" Jon Fistein, Technical Director, Tribal; Clare Sanderson, Director of Information Governance, NHS Information Centre.
Hope to see some of you there,
Rick
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