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BCS Health

Medical scan

 
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

 

BCS Health Scotland Conference

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

 

CCIO Campaign

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.

Preparing for information being mission-critical to the NHS

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'.

Download a PDF version of the report

Featured article

Track start

2012: a challenging year for health informatics

According to a recently circulated Department of Health document, health informaticians will need to ‘step up to the plate’ and not be backward in coming forward about the value that health informatics (HI) contributes to patient care.

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BCS debate

Video Debate: How IT can improve health service efficiency

In the run up to HC 2011, the UK's largest event for health & social care informaticians and ICT professionals, BCS Managing Editor Brian Runciman spoke to David Astley, Head of Sales, Health and Emergency Services, Virgin Media Business; Dr Neill Jones, Clinical Director, First DataBank and Mike Sinclair BCS Health Executive about how the NHS can best utilise IT.
Liberating the NHS

Preparing the NHS for an 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.

Download a PDF version of the report

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