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Postgraduate degree courses OPEN EVENINGS.
Health Informatics Short Courses
Dr Foster Intelligence Health Informatics Graduate Award
NHS Connecting for Health Consultancy
Extension to Blood Tracking Project
CHI Collaboration with PICANet
Knowledge transfer funding for telemonitoring work
Postgraduate degree courses OPEN EVENINGS.
The Postgraduate degree course Open Evening will give you more insight into our MSc in Health Informatics and MSc in Healthcare Technologies, come along and meet the team
Full information is available at http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/pgcourses/opendays.html
Health Informatics Short courses
Two day Masterclass in "Usability in E-Health Systems: Developing More Usable and Useful Health Information Systems"
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DATE: 1st and 2nd October 2009 10am - 4pm VENUE: AG01, City University London DESCRIPTION: |
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It has become increasingly recognised that ensuring the usability of healthcare information systems (such as the electronic health record) is a key factor to successful system deployment and adoption. Usability can be defined as a measure of how effective, efficient, safe, easy to learn and enjoyable to use a system is. Successful design, implementation and deployment of healthcare information systems is dependent on careful consideration of usability. This includes the study of the impact of systems on healthcare workers' cognition and workflow as well as consideration of a range of social factors related to successful technology deployment. Indeed, the field of health informatics is littered with examples of systems and projects that have failed in large part due to lack of consideration of human-computer interaction and more specifically usability.
In this course a practical framework for improving usability of healthcare systems will be presented. In particular the application of methods from the emerging field of usability engineering to healthcare will be described and demonstrated. This includes study of human-computer interaction in the design of a range of health informatics applications and considerations of low-cost yet powerful methods for evaluating and improving system usability and usefulness.
In addition, approaches to the design of systems that are safe and that reduce human error in healthcare will be discussed.
WHO THIS IS AIMED AT:
- Healthcare Professionals who are interested in e-Health
- Researchers
- IT Personnel
- Project Managers
COURSE GOAL:
The course will introduce the concept of usability in healthcare. It will also provide practical experience in applying usability engineering methods to ensure usability of healthcare information systems. A variety of methods will be presented as well as a practical approach to setting up a usability laboratory.
MAJOR OBJECTIVES:
Upon successfully completing this course the student will be able to:
- understand the need for considering usability in the design, implementation and deployment life cycle of healthcare systems;
- understand the importance of usability engineering and its application in the design of effective user interfaces in healthcare;
- understand how to apply usability inspection methods (i.e. heuristic evaluation and cognitive walkthrough) in the design and evaluation of health information systems
- understand how to apply usability testing in the design and evaluation of health information systems;
- understand how to use low-cost approaches to conducting usability testing in mock-up, simulation and real clinical settings:
- understand how to apply usability methods thoughout the system development life cycle, from us in procurement, through design, implementation and beta testing:
course fee : £395
20% discount for Alumni & City University Students
To book a place on the course please complete and return the Course Booking Form (Word Document).
Understanding and Lowering Hospital Average Length of Stay
Date: To be confirmed
Synopsis:
Clinicians and hospital administrators are continuously faced with acute hospital capacity challenges caused by longer than estimated length of stay. These challenges lead to ongoing service and financial management problems. In order to address these issues, there must be a thorough understanding of the drivers of length of stay. Once these are understood, the magnitude of each potential driver can be determined and plans crafted and implemented to address them and improve the ALOS. It is also critical that, during and following implementation, the appropriate process and outcome performance measures be tracked to facilitate monitoring and management of progress. Information systems play an important role in both the provision of information on existing practice together with the ongoing monitoring of implemented plans.
Participants will learn to:
- 1) Analyse and understand clinical and administrative processes that drive average length of stay (ALOS)
- 2) Formulate and prioritise multidisciplinary tactical and strategic plans to improve ALOS through process change
- 3) Understand the roles played by clinical and administrative information systems in the understanding and management of ALOS
- 4) Track processes and ALOS performance using simple metrics and creative IT solutions
Speakers:
Mary Sajdak
Mary Sajdak, RN, MS, NP is a senior consultant with Eagle Medical Management. She has over 15 years experience in quality and utilisation management. She has spent much of the past 10 years working with nurses, physicians and hospital administrators to improve hospital length of stay while simultaneously improving the patient journey and the quality of care. Creating measurable success factors for both process and outcome has been a hallmark of her work, leading to a 10% to 30% reduction in the average length of stay in 1 year in all of her engagements.
Dave Nurse
Dave is a Clinical Chemist and a Medical Informatics specialist by profession. He has spent the past 12 years innovating web based software products that meet the modern demands of healthcare with the ambition of improving healthcare through clinically centred software that integrates knowledge with clinical processes. As CTO at RealTime Health Ltd, Dave is part of a team focused on helping hospitals reduce Length of Stay through a combination of proven clinical methodology with the innovative RealTime software product.Jess Boyer, MD
Jess Boyer, MD is a co-founder of Eagle Medical Management and RealTime Health, Ltd. He has over 25 years experience managing healthcare organisations. Over the last decade, he has developed innovative techniques to reduce the average length of stay. Driven by clinical and administrative process improvement and improved information management and sharing, these techniques bring all healthcare providers together to improve care and reduce the length of stay. The RealTime software tool facilitates these techniques by establishing a structure and driving workflow to enable closer collaboration of all parties involved in discharge planning.
Prof Abdul Roudsari
Abdul Roudsari is Professor of Health Informatics and the Director of the Centre for Health Informatics (CHI) at City University. He has been a member of the Centre since 1989, having had a particular involvement in a range of research projects concerned with the provision of decision support systems to diabetic patients. Recently he has led a major innovative EU-funded home telecare project and currently an NHS CFH evaluation project in the Pilot Implementation of IT Specification for a Blood Tracking System. His research is focused on Modelling in Healthcare, eHealth, Telecare and Electronic Patient Records.course fee : £295
20% discount for Alumni & City University Students
MSc in Health Informatics Award: “Driving innovation: the Dr Foster Intelligence Health Informatics Graduate Award”.
A prize of £1000 will be awarded to the MSc in Health Informatics student with the best dissertation in each year, with the option of a three month internship at Dr Foster Intelligence.
The prize is sponsored by Dr Foster Intelligence and will be known as “Driving innovation: the Dr Foster Intelligence Health Informatics Graduate Award”. The aims of the award are to encourage excellence in postgraduate level research in health informatics and to stimulate public interest in the use and analysis of health information and data.
Dr Foster Intelligence is a joint venture between the Health and Social Care Information Centre (an NHS Special Health Authority) and the private sector, a combination that is designed to improve the delivery of quality information to Health and Social Care organisations and the public. It is a commercial organisation that provides management information to health and social care organisations as well as the voluntary and private sectors.
NHS Connecting for Health Consultancy
Centre for Health Informatics jointly with Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh has been awarded a new NHS Connecting for Health consultancy.
Funding £12k
Title:
Improving access to, dissemination of and the application of research undertaken by Health Informatics students at Masters level in Higher Education across the United Kingdom
Extension to Blood Tracking Project
The Centre has been given an extension to the Evaluation of the pilot implementation of an IT specification for a blood tracking system project for 8 months with further funding of £74k
CHI Collaboration with PICANet
CHI and Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet) now have collaborative links through the pan Thames PICANet Co-ordinator post.
The PICANet related work at CHI will focus on regional commissioning requirements steered though the regional PICU Health Informatics Group (PHiG) but will of course have relevance to PICU informatics at large. We hope this link between PICANet and CHI will add to PICANet's strength in meeting its core objectives in the future whilst ensuring that CHI's work builds local NHS links and further addresses commissioning requirements.
The pan Thames PICANet Co-ordinator at City is Krish Thiru
email: thiruk1@city.ac.uk
Tel: 0207 040 8370, Mob: 077 681 45759
Knowledge transfer funding for telemonitoring work
Dr. Peter Weller has been awarded a £30K standard grant from the Emerald Fund to explore the commercialisation of his work on remote patient monitoring. The grant will be used to undertake marketing and establish links with potential partners.
The WINORE™ (Wearable Computers in the Operating Room Environment) project uses a wearable computer system to provide a real-time heads-up display of patient condition to clinicians when they are away from the high dependency environment. A prototype system has been evaluated by clinicians and a patent application is ongoing.
The Emerald Proof of Concept Fund is a prestigious funding body established by eight leading universities and supported by the London Development Agency (LDA).
For further information on WINORE please contact Dr. Peter Weller
Email: p.r.weller@city.ac.uk
Tel: 020-7040-8372
CHI Seminars
Professor Denis Protti Seminar
Following Professor Denis Protti's lecture on 7 November, attended by the Vice-Chancellor Prof. Malcom Gillies and Dean Prof. Ken Grattan the
presentation slides and report of the meeting are now available to download .
Dr Francisco Sanchez Seminar
The presentation slides for Dr Francisco Sanchez's seminar are available to download here