Workshop 16.11.2011

Progress with Professionalism

Jean RobertsDirector (Standards), UKCHIPjean@hcjean.demon.co.uk

Workshop format

• Perspectives–HI in general–IT–Other Health Professions–Academic and Operational

• Interactive session• Feedback and Next Steps

HEALTH

INFORMATICS (IT, IM and

Information Science)HEALTH INFORMATICS COMMUNITYICT, IT,

incl Computer Science / studies

Information Management

KnowledgeManageme

nt

ClinicalInformatics + User Experienc

e

EducationTraining

Development

Research

HealthRecords

Management

Note : ALL constituencies have

public &private health, academic and commercial

existences

PortfolioProgramme

Project Management Managing

HI Services

Stating the Obvious?

• Delivering support to complex care by multi-professional / cross-sectoral organisations, 24/7

• Informatics increasingly recognised as a core function of the NHS and other care delivery bodies.

“informatics staff involved in the production and operation of major eHealth developments aimed at supporting more effective healthcare services in many countries must be ‘fit to practice’ professionals”

• Informatics is more business critical every year

Vision: Health Informatics to be recognised as a valued profession

globally

• Promoting advancement and dissemination of knowledge about health informatics

• Defining and agreeing standards of professional conduct and competence required of people working in health informatics

• Publishing and maintaining an open register of health informatics professionals in or for the UK and …?

• Demonstrating its own professional authority and legitimacy through assurance of its own processes and procedures

Over-arching challenge• All persons who spend a substantial

proportion of their role or time working in health informatics

• in or for the <geography> should be registered with <xx>CHIP and thereby

• certified as professionals • who meet defined standards of professional

conduct and competence• on an ongoing basis

HI-specific Issues to consider• Brand, scope and scale of Health Informatics – A ‘Confusion’ of workforce standards

• Senior buy-in to recognising professionalism• Priority to get working systems and solutions• Decision support is a ‘given’ until quality is

challenged – tradition of ‘blame the computer’• Proving Value: risk to ‘not direct patient care’ • Pace of Change• Self-worth