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BCS Health was formed to cover all aspects of informatics in support of health, a sector of particular relevance and importance to BCS.
BCS Health provides leadership in this sector, acting as a source of professionally recognised expertise, under-pinning the outward-facing role of BCS, and ensuring that contributors to Health Informatics are recognised and respected.
BCS Health purpose and objectives
At the BCS Health Scotland Conference, Dr Brian Robson, Medical Director of Healthcare Improvement Scotland, and Paul Woolman, Chair of the BCS Health Scotland Group, spoke to BCS Editor Justin Richards about the challenges facing the health informatics industry.
Watch the interview with Dr Brian Robson
Watch the interview with Paul Woolman
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT has been a key supporter of the CCIO Campaign since its launch. As initial step to building a career pathway BCS Health has carried out an extensive consultation of members and partner organisations to develop a model CCIO job description, intended to form a basis for development of future CCIO’s from a variety of clinical professions.
Mott MacDonald was commissioned by BCS Health to undertake market research and analysis to gauge opinion on the current state of healthcare information practices and to identify what lessons can be learned from other health systems and other sectors where similar types of changes have taken place, and how these might help prepare the English NHS for its own 'information revolution'.
The report focuses on nine different areas that will need to be, affected and taken into consideration by any information strategy in the health and care sector. The report contains almost 100 recommendations, but a number of themes are regularly occurring throughout. This report is now available from the BCS bookshop.
Meaningful Use and Beyond. A Guide for IT Staff in Health Care by Fred Trotter and David Uhlman. Reviewed by Sheila Bullas.
Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge by Dee McGonigle and Kathleen Garver Mastrian. Reviewed by Sheila Bullas.