Transcript Healthcare computing - University of Portsmouth
Healthcare computing at the University of Portsmouth
Dr Jim Briggs http://www.disco.port.ac.uk/hcc Last updated: 24th November 2004
Group members
• Permanent staff: – Jim Briggs – Tineke Fitch – Roger Beresford & Gordon Early – Brett Stevens* & Carl Adams* • Administrative staff – Angela Muscat (TEIS administrator) • Technical staff – Many at various times – Most recently Daniel Yang • Fixed-term staff – Dave Prytherch (seconded from PHT) – Dick Curry – Past: Jeff Sirl, Stephanie Williams • Research students – Past: Tineke & Bernie Garrett – Penny Ross – Jason Oakley (pt) – Suzanne Stokes * – Emily Bennett * * shared with other groups 2
Activities
• Telemedicine and e health Information Service • Clinical outcomes • Cancer care data • ICT research initiative • Imaging • ISABEL evaluation • Smart cards • Mobile healthcare • SIHI • Teaching 3
Telemedicine and e-health Information Service (TEIS)
• Formerly National Database of Telemedicine • Was funded by NHS Information Authority (until March 2004) • Once again, need to find new funding 4
Spin-offs from TEIS
• Resource centre for NeLH – e-health • Collaborate with: – UK e-health Association – Royal Society of Medicine Telemedicine Forum – Institute of Healthcare Management/ASSIST – Confederation of E-health Websites (CEW, pronounced "queue") • Sponsored DTI-funded mission to South Korea, March 2001 5
Adverse clinical outcomes
• Can useful predictive information be gleaned from already existing data?
• Project funded by local NHS R&D fund + University funds • Developed a new technique for comparing surgical performance; extending it to General Medicine • Paper accepted by BritJSurgery; one in pipeline; front page of The Observer 6
Cancer care data
• Since 1998, trusts need to report data on cancer patients • National Service Frameworks • 150 items of data per patient • 500,000 data items pa in Portsmouth alone • Usability issues – Penny Ross working on it – Funding from charity 7
ICT initiative
• Department of Health’s Information and Communication Technologies Research Initiative • Supporting management of the research programme • Website and mailing list 8
Other projects
• Imaging (Jason Oakley) – Digital phantom for evaluating quality in radiographical systems and procedures • ISABEL evaluation (Jim and Tineke Fitch) – Paediatric decision-support tool – Evaluate use and users • Smart cards (Roger Beresford and Jim) • Mobile healthcare (Carl Adams and Tineke) 9
Southern Institute for Health Informatics
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SIHI
• Local and national organisations • 6 conferences since July 1998 • Last one on 1st October 2004 • Next one next September (probably) • Part of UK IHI – Academic Forum (part of the NHS National Information Partnership Board) 11
Teaching activities
• Wrapping up – MSc in Healthcare Information Systems – MSc in Healthcare Information Management • Final year option on health informatics (Tineke) • New MSc in e-Health?
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