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From: Drury Adam [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 02 January 2007 16:29
To: Drury Adam
Subject: ASSIST North West Branch Newsletter - January 2007
Welcome to the January 2007 update from the North West ASSIST Branch. The
purpose of this email is to bring you up to speed with developments and up
and coming activities within the branch.
Up and coming Branch Events
Tuesday 30th January 2007
Data Security, Data Warehousing and Legacy Systems
2.30 p.m., Lecture Theatre 2, Conference Centre, Adelphi Building, UCLAN
(Preston Campus)
Whilst NHS Connecting for Health is busily working on the NPfIT in the NHS,
IM&T staff in the Trusts still have to manage their legacy systems, looking
after their data and making best use of it. This meeting focuses on the two
key tasks of physically protecting the Trust's data and storing it in a way
that facilitates information retrieval/reporting, with case study
presentations to illustrate best practice.
- Data Security for Legacy Systems: case study presentation on hospital data
security, back up and disaster recovery at Liverpool Women's Hospital - Dr
Zafar Chaudry, Director of Information Management & Technology, Vice-Chair
NHS Faculty of Health Informatics, Liverpool Women's Hospital NHS Foundation
Trust
- Data Warehousing with Legacy Systems: including the difference between
Health Data Manager for legacy systems and Health Data Miner within the
NPfIT LSP North West solution. - Caroline Williams, Marketing Manager,
System C Healthcare plc (supplemented by a case study presentation by a
North West user, subject to availability)
In order to book on this event, please click on the following link and
select 'book me onto this event'.
http://www.nmconnect.nhs.uk/profdev/events/showevent.asp?id=544&catg='IMT
Wednesday 28th February - Friday 2nd March 2007
HfMA / ASSIST Spring Conference - "Keep Fit, Save Pounds - Is the NHS Fit
for Purpose?"
Hilton Hotel, Blackpool
Conference Programme
Application Form
Friday 9th March 2007
18 Week Patient Pathway
2.30 p.m., Wrightington Conference Centre
Delivering an 18-week patient pathway is one of the most significant reforms
in the history of the NHS. IT managers are going to be put under a lot of
pressure to provide IT solutions to help departments track their patients
through the 18-week pathway and to predict possible breaches before they
happen. The advice so far given to Trusts is that they need to develop their
own interim IT solutions. However, as yet there is no clear guidance on how
to go about doing this. This workshop will include presentations (see below)
on some of the latest developments in the North West and peer group
discussions on ways forward.
Philip Firth, IM&T Strategy Implementation Manager, Wrightington, Wigan and
Leigh NHS Trust: "How we are developing patient tracking systems in EPR"
Denis Gizzi, Associate Director - Modernisation, Oldham PCT: "Pathway
measurement; feedback from an 18-week pilot site"
Sara Barrett, Head of Information, Central Manchester & Manchester
Children's Hospitals NHS Trust: "Experience within a large, acute trust".
In order to book on this event, please click on the following link and
select 'book me onto this event'.
http://www.nmconnect.nhs.uk/profdev/events/showevent.asp?id=539&catg='IMT
Thursday 19th April 2007
Electronic Prescribing and Robotic Systems
2.00 p.m., Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral
Pete Marsh MBE, Technical Director at Wirral Health Informatics Services
(WHIS), will host this event at Arrowe Park Hospital, which will include
presentations on the pioneering electronic prescribing activity within the
Trust, and a tour of their pharmacy facility, which includes robotic
systems.
In order to book on this event, please click on the following link and
select 'book me onto this event'.
http://www.nmconnect.nhs.uk/profdev/events/showevent.asp?id=538&catg='IMT
Dates for future events will be available shortly. If you have any ideas for
future events, please contact us and let us know your ideas.
BCS Health Informatics (Northern) Specialist Group
The full programme of events for this group for 2006/07 can be downloaded by
clicking here
Infocus Training Programme - 2006/07
Infocus provides an education and training programme for Health Informatics
Staff across the North West. Details of their training programme can be
viewed by clicking here.
HC2007
HC2007 will take place from 19th-21st March 2007, and it is time to start
thinking about how you can participate. The Call for Participation is now
open. Click here see how you can take part. Bursuries are also available
for this event - click here for more details.
CPD Scheme
The North West branch offers a CPD scheme for its members who attend branch
events throughout the year. Further details can be found on the CPD flyer,
which can be downloaded from the branch website.
All North West Branch events offer UKCHIP registrants the opportunity for
continuing professional development.
Branch website
The branch website is regularly kept up to date with information on future
events, copies of slides from previous events, minutes of branch meetings,
and a whole host of other resources. Do visit regularly to keep up to date
with developments across the branch.
Membership
Please feel free to pass on this e-mail to colleagues who are not yet a
member of ASSIST.
Membership of ASSIST is open to employees of health or social care
organisations with an interest in health informatics and to individuals
employed in providing informatics services to, or on behalf of, a health or
social care organisation for a greater proportion of their time. ASSIST
welcomes individual members from private organisations in the field of
health and social care on the understanding that this is not for the direct
pursuit of commercial activities.
The annual cost of individual membership is very reasonable at only £30.
Alternatively, five individuals from the same organisation can join ASSIST
as part of a group membership at £120, with every additional member charged
at £25. The membership year runs from 1st April to 31st March.
Further information on joining ASSIST, including application forms, is
available from the association's Internet web site www.bcs.org/assist.
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Dr. Adam Drury
ASSIST North West Branch Secretary
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