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BCS Health
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
Justin Whatling videos
BCS Health IMIA Representative Election
Paul Woolman elected as the BCS Health IMIA representative. Further information
Keeping your online health and social care records safe and secure
By March 2015 the government has mandated that the NHS provides patients online access to their GP medical records. These records contain potentially sensitive personal information, so it’s important that individuals know how to keep them safe. Everyone should take the same care with their health and social care records as they do if they use online banking. Read the full article
Information Governance Toolkit
BCS Health have responded to the consultation on the Information Governance Toolkit (IGT). Read the response
BCS Health Scotland Conference 2013
Health Informatics Scotland Conference 2013 is the foremost conference in Scotland on Health IT, eHealth and Informatics.
18-19 September, save the date and book now!
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'.
Featured article
BCS Multimedia Editor, Justin Richards, recently caught up with Dr Nigel Millar, Chief Medical Officer, Canterbury District Health Board, New Zealand, to ask him about the differences in health informatics between the UK and New Zealand.
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.
Latest news
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT and HIMSS have signed a memorandum of understanding that will see them collaborating on a project to introduce HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Records Adoption Model (EMRAM)SM to the UK.
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Related book reviews
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.