Connecting Informatics with Clinical Education – Nic Bartholomew, BCU

Liberating the NHS: An Information Revolution:‘as a key component of assuring data quality, national education and training in approved informatics standards will need to be available.’

(DH, 2010)

Methods:•9 regional HEI’s surveyed•10 healthcare professions•186 students – online survey•15 staff – online survey & interview

Survey & interview designs informed by learning objectives identified in Learning to Manage Health Information: a theme for clinical education (CFH, 2009)

NHS West Midlands Care Pathway Group Project, 2009/10

Question: To what extent are Health Informatics learning objectives embedded within HE healthcare curricula in the West Midlands?

Aims: • To establish whether Health Information learning objectives are currently attainable through pre-reg healthcare programmes in the region

•To establish whether graduates have the opportunity to be equipped with essential ICT and Health Information skills needed for health care practice in the 21st Century.

N.Bartholomew, 2011

HI Criteria RangeLiterature evaluation 7.2Literature searching 14.3Clinical governance and audit 18.2Assistive tech 24.6Telemedicine 28.5Multidisciplinary communication 28.6Decision support tools 35.7Clinical coding 42.8Record keeping standards 42.9Data protection 46.2HI projects and initiatives 50Clinical information systems 50EHR management 57.1Communication technologies 64.3Management of clinical data 69.3Information governance 78.6

largely relevant but under assessed

Are HI topics relevant to your programme?

Highly relevantSome relevanceLimited relevance

Dispersion between Relevance andAssessment: high = misaligned curricula

FormativeSummativeUnassessed

Are HI topics assessed in your programme?

Perceived barriers to HI integration within HE healthcare

curricula

Potential complexity of electronic information systems / multiple

systems on multiple sites

Limited time within programmes to deliver HI content’

Limited access to computers in placement / logistical problems

with student access

Varied quality of mentor / supervisor providing systems training

HI related topics require clarification / the term Health Informatics

needs ‘demystifying’

Lack of staff expertise

Nic BartholomewSenior Learning & Teaching Fellow

Faculty of Health, BCU

http://www.igte-learning.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/igte/index.cfm

DH will be releasing a suite of informaticsmodules to supplement the existing

Information Governance Module

61% students would value more trainingon clinical information systems A training solution?

Information GovernanceHealth & Care Records

Communication & Information TransferData, Information and Knowledge

Clinical Coding & TerminologyClinical Systems & ApplicationseHealth: the Future Direction

61% of surveyed students would value further training in the appropriate use of clinical systems with the highest proportion indicating that improved access and practice on systems would be most valued. 64% of respondents would also value having access to a simulated care information system on campus (e.g. SystmOne, Leeds)

Also to be available as OER

Project RecommendationsEmphasise Health Informatics within OccupationalStandards

Simplify and articulate the LtMHI framework foreducators

Further reinforce links between faculty and practicepartners in relation to HI training