Health informatics: Improving patient care
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Health informatics - BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Health care is very much an information business. Administering health care was the subject of many early systems. It was not long after the first computers appeared that they were being used to support the finance function at the London Hospital. Things have come a long way since those days and still have far to go. Use of computers to support the clinical care of patients is a more recent phenomenon, but one that is obvious if you think about it. Much of health care deals with the collection of symptoms and results of tests to form a diagnosis. The formulation of a plan and its implementation involves the collection and recording of much information.
The recent Health and Social Care Act 2012 initiates major changes to the NHS, giving responsibility for commissioning health services for local populations largely to GPs in Commissioning Care Groups. These changes aim to create productivity improvements in the health and care of populations by ensuring more integrated care across a range of settings from home to hospital care, where different providers contribute to the overall integrated pathway of care for a patient. This can only be achieved satisfactorily by using information and information systems to transform the productivity and economics of the NHS; improving the quality of care, its outcomes and the health of the population.
This briefing is aimed at presenting just a few of the many innovative ways in which information systems and technology are being used to support health care. Matthew Swindells, Chair of BCS Health, points out in the first article that ‘the challenge is to IT-enable the whole system, not just the silos: stepping out of our narrow institutional interests and finding a way to deliver benefits for the population, the patient, the NHS and its staff.’ He describes the five pillars on which this should be based to achieve success.
You will find articles on robotic surgery and radiotherapy targeting showing how informatics is being applied in leading-edge clinical treatment of patients. ‘Telehealth: for better patient care’ and ‘Smart textiles’ focus on how technology can support people in their own homes and avoid the need for expensive hospital care.
It is well documented that patients are harmed and killed by medical errors with about 1 in 10 patients being affected in some way. In ‘Safety first’, Dr Paul Shannon explains how ‘electronic systems, wisely designed and implemented, can help reduce risks in a variety of ways.’
As the number of different providers of health care to individual patients increases, the need to integrate care and information from different sources also increases. This risks greater fragmentation, potentially leading to more, rather than less, medical errors. Researchers William Buchanan and Christoph Thuemmler of Edinburgh Napier University talk about their approach to this complex problem using the latest innovations in cloud computing.
Janet Sampson from the Welsh Blood Service describes how other areas of health care computing can learn from the strict validation procedures they must apply for new computing systems. This becomes increasingly important where information is crossing organisational boundaries in order to provide a complete picture for a patient.
If you need any convincing of how exciting health informatics can be and want to be inspired, read Justin Richards’ interview with Dr Julie Greensmith: ‘A real rollercoaster ride’. Part of the Intelligent Modelling and Analysis Group in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, she describes how she got into this domain and what she is working on.
The line up is completed by Andy Savvides describing the NHS Infrastructure Maturity Model; Margaret Cosens and Keith Richardson on the application of speech recognition and digital dictation; Paul Chapman on how the implementation of an electronic patient record at NHS Rotherham has led to shorter waiting lists and productivity; and Carol Bond on how the internet has transformed information for patients, the public and health care professionals.
While we cannot hope to cover the sheer variety of areas in health care where information technology is already making an impact or the complex and exciting areas still to be tackled, we hope that these articles give you some insight into the domain. They are aimed at an audience that does not require detailed understanding of health care or health informatics.
Sheila Bullas
Vice Chair Publications
BCS Health
1 USING IT TO IMPROVE POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT
At the annual conference of the Primary Health Care Specialist Group, Matthew Swindells, Chair, BCS Health, talked about the changes that have been brought in by the recent Health and Social Care Act 2012 and the implications this has for informatics.
The Health and Social Care Act 2012 hands commissioning of health services over to ‘clinical commissioning groups’ largely run by GPs. As the Chair of the NHS Commission Board, Malcolm Grant, said: ‘The best clinical commissioning groups will be those with the best information systems.’ There is, therefore, an obligation on those who work in the area of health informatics in general and those in primary care informatics in particular to step up to this challenge.
Traditionally health care has stood