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Past Meetings
The Forum meets quarterly in London to discuss key issues in Health Informatics. (The forum also hosts other meetings, identified by *).
June 2009
The Shared Care Record
Speakers: Peter Short, Chair of the steering group of the RCGP 'Shared Record Professional Guidance' project on behalf of CFH.
Alan Hassey, Co-author of RCGP report on the Shared Electronic Patient Record.
A report from this meeting will appear in the September edition of HINOW.
April 2009
HC2009 - The conference of the BCS Health Informatics Forum
The conference took place 28-30 April in Harrogate. Read HC2009 reports by some of those who attended.
October 2008
The Importance of Professional Development
(How BCS can help)
July 2008
Edward James - NHS patient data: Security problems at the sharp end
Based on 10 years of interaction with hospitals. A report is available in Sept 08 issue of HINOW.
HC2009 - Sheila Bullas
Building on the success of HC2008 - more about next year's event.
www.hc2009.org
May 2008
Looking Back, Looking Forward
The launch of the book UK Health Computing, Recollections and Reflections
The introduction of IT into healthcare has not followed a smooth path....read the experiences of some of the early pioneers of Health Informatics. A report on the event will appear in HINOW in due course.
More about the book
Photographs from the event
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Carl Bate, Capgemini VP and UK Chief Technology Officer, gave an introduction to the IT Futures Group within the BCS. A full report will appear in HINOW in due course.
April 2008
*IHE event hosted by BCSHIF
January 2008
NHS23 - Tony Solomonides
ASSIST developments - Simon Anderson
A write up of this event will appear in the March issue of HINOW.
October 2007
Public health : private data?
A joint event hosted by BCS Health Informatics Forum and BCS Security Forum.
Speakers:
Dr Fleur Fisher - a consultant in healthcare ethics
Brian Derry - a director of informatics in large teaching hospital
Phil Cracknell - one of the UK's leading information security specialists
Tom Parker - has special expertise in patient confidentiality controls
Salient Points from Public health: private data from Security Forum Manager Andrea Simmons
HINOW piece on Public health: private data?
April 2007
Speaker: Jagdip Grewal, Chief Technical Architect for Connecting For Health
Subject: Service Orientated Architectures
Speaker: Rob Navarro
Subject: Can patient data be shared without risking patient privacy?
January 2007
Speakers: Andrew Haw MBCS and Dr Jean Roberts CEng FBCS CITP
Subject: The Way Forward for HI as a Profession
Reports from this meeting are in March 07 HINOW, entitled Plethora of views aired at professionalism debate and Wide scope 'creates squid-like synergy'
October 2006
Speakers: Professor Graham Wright and co-presenter Dr Peter Murray
Subject: Defining the Core Knowledge Base of Health Informatics
A report from this meeting is available in Dec 06 HINOW, entitled What is at the discipline's core.
July 2006
Speaker: Professor Brian Toft
Subject: Is the Human Being More Dangerous than the Computer?
Paper on Involuntary Automaticity (PDF)
A report on this talk is available in Sept 06 HINOW, entitled Beware of switching onto automatic pilot
Speaker: Pam Hughes
Subject: UKCHIP - Pathway to Professional Regulation?
Speaker: Katherine Pigott
Subject: Benchmarking Standards for Biomedical Informatics
April 2006
Speaker: Dr Mike Bainbridge
Subject: The Common User Interface (CUI) project
Speaker: Mike Duman
Subject: Clinical Benefits Advisers
Speaker: Philip Scott
Subject: How HL7 UK is supporting implementation of healthcare messaging
Speaker: Dr Paul McCullagh
Subject: Health & Medical Informatics Northern Ireland
January 2006
| Speaker: | Celia Boyer | |
| Subject: | A Decade Devoted to Improving Online Health Information Quality (Health on the Net – HON) |
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October 2005
| Speaker: | Professor Denis Protti | |
| Subject: | Health Informatics has a favourable impact on patient care. Agree or disagree? | |
| Presentation Slides (13 Mb) |
July 2005
| Speaker: | Professor Jeremy Wyatt | |
| Subject: | Carrying out pilot studies on eHealth systems and services: a pilot that failed. | |
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April 2005
| Speaker: | Barbara McManus | |
| Subject: | HCI and HI. Is there 'C' of a difference | |
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January 2005
| Speaker: | John Fox | |
| Subject: | Improving decision-making and workflow in patient care: a review of PROforma technology and its current evidence base' | |
October 2004
| Speaker: | Andrew Todd-Pokropec | |
| Subject: | PACS: from research to routine (some issues concerning the widespread installation of PACS). | |
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Presentation not available. |
July 2004
| Speaker: | Professor Frances Mair | |
| Subject: | Evidence based eHealth. | |
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April 2004
| Speaker: | Dr Paul Debenham | |
| Subject: | The Implications for Genetics in Healthcare | |