The EHI CCIO Campaign is calling for the development of a new role - chief clinical information officer - to provide clear clinical leadership on IT projects and the use of information in NHS organisations.
As a first step, we have written to health secretary Andrew Lansley urging him to encourage NHS trusts to identify local clinical information champions.
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The well known radiologist and IT enthusiast wanted to be a chief clinical information officer to support the EHI CCIO Campaign. In his new role, he talks to Daloni Carlisle.
2 February 2012
Daloni Carlisle speaks to a chief clinical information officer who is not tied to a hospital setting; and does not come from an acute background.
10 January 2012
In the first of a new series of columns, junior doctor Carl Reynolds discusses the sources of his malcontent with hospital IT.
20 December 2011
The RCN is glad to endorse the eHealth Insider's campaign for Chief Clinical Information Officers. We look forward to working with EHI and alongside other supporters to work out how we might investigate further the potential of this role in hospital trusts. The development of local clinical information leaders to help identify and spread best practice and innovation, as well as ensure the more effective management of information projects, is a worthy cause and we hope to be able to add meaningfully to the debate - especially around clinical and economic practicalities.
Better information needs to be provided to help patients and service users make informed choice about comparable service providers and to help researchers who rely on good data to analyse issues and draw conclusions about how healthcare outcomes can be improved.
Data collection needs to be standardised and simplified but also expanded to include indicators not currently available to monitor outcomes for important conditions and interventions, such as non-surgical musculoskeletal interventions, which account for over 20% of GP caseload.
Accurate and robust clinical data, provided by doctors, is required for developing standards and policies, monitoring outcomes, and evaluating performance. Strong engagement from clinicians is required for the success of any IT project in healthcare.
A clinical leadership in the form of a CCIO leading the IT projects will be expedient since this will facilitate the translation of captured information from new technologies into enhancement of clinical e ciency. A role dedicated to this purpose, freed of clinical commitments, will provide su cient opportunity for the CCIO to actively interact with the pertinent executive board and other decision making bodies within the trust so that the engagement between clinicians and IT professionals can be expedited. Doctors Academy is pleased to endorse this campaign that is envisaged at, ultimately, augmenting the quality and safety of healthcare our patients receive.
Dr Stuart Enoch
Chairman and Programme Director
Doctors Academy
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