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eHealth in the Professional
CurriculumDi Millen
Department of Health Informatics Directorate
(England)
www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/eice
3
An Information Rich Environment
eHealth & Clinical Practice
• Contribution to patient care
• Changing dynamics
• Use of computers in
consultations
• Shared access to records
• Contribution to the clinical
record
• Information for care
delivery
• Written communication
• Writing records for the use
of others
• Use of common clinical
terms
• Patient access
• Security and confidentiality
• Maintaining and confirming
competence
• Audit, reports, research,
service management,
specifying & using data and
information; e-learning
“Learning to Manage Health Information –
a theme for clinical education”
• Protecting individuals and organisations
• Data, Information and Knowledge
• Communications and Information Transfer
• Health and Care Records
• The Language of Health (Clinical Coding &
Terminology)
• E-Health: the Future of Clinical Care
• Essential IT Skills
“Challenges”
• Language: “eHealth”,
“Informatics”
• Pre and post-
registration
• Educator
development
• Context
• Relevance, impact
and value
• Build in or bolt on?
• Education or training?
• Access to systems
• Resources
• Assessment
Conclusion
• Tool not topic
• Integral to professional practice
• Change is never easy
“That it will ever come into general use, notwithstanding its value, is extremely doubtful because its beneficial application requires much time and gives a good bit of trouble, both to the patient and to the practitioner because its hue and character are foreign and opposed to all our habits and associations.”
The London Times
1834
Di Millen
di.millen@nhs.net
+447879444758
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