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CHI Collaboration with PICANet
Professor Denis Protti Seminar
Knowledge transfer funding for telemonitoring work
Postgraduate degree courses OPEN EVENINGS.
Full information is available at http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/pgcourses/opendays.htmlHealth Informatics Short courses
Understanding and Lowering Hospital Average Length of Stay
Date: 4th March 2009
Synopsis:
Clinicians and hospital administrators are continuously faced with acute hospital capacity challenges caused by longer than estimated length of stay. These challenges lead to ongoing service and financial management problems. In order to address these issues, there must be a thorough understanding of the drivers of length of stay. Once these are understood, the magnitude of each potential driver can be determined and plans crafted and implemented to address them and improve the ALOS. It is also critical that, during and following implementation, the appropriate process and outcome performance measures be tracked to facilitate monitoring and management of progress. Information systems play an important role in both the provision of information on existing practice together with the ongoing monitoring of implemented plans.
Participants will learn to:
- 1) Analyse and understand clinical and administrative processes that drive average length of stay (ALOS)
- 2) Formulate and prioritise multidisciplinary tactical and strategic plans to improve ALOS through process change
- 3) Understand the roles played by clinical and administrative information systems in the understanding and management of ALOS
- 4) Track processes and ALOS performance using simple metrics and creative IT solutions
Speakers:
Mary Sajdak
Mary Sajdak, RN, MS, NP is a senior consultant with Eagle Medical Management. She has over 15 years experience in quality and utilisation management. She has spent much of the past 10 years working with nurses, physicians and hospital administrators to improve hospital length of stay while simultaneously improving the patient journey and the quality of care. Creating measurable success factors for both process and outcome has been a hallmark of her work, leading to a 10% to 30% reduction in the average length of stay in 1 year in all of her engagements.
Dave Nurse
Dave is a Clinical Chemist and a Medical Informatics specialist by profession. He has spent the past 12 years innovating web based software products that meet the modern demands of healthcare with the ambition of improving healthcare through clinically centred software that integrates knowledge with clinical processes. As CTO at RealTime Health Ltd, Dave is part of a team focused on helping hospitals reduce Length of Stay through a combination of proven clinical methodology with the innovative RealTime software product.Jess Boyer, MD
Jess Boyer, MD is a co-founder of Eagle Medical Management and RealTime Health, Ltd. He has over 25 years experience managing healthcare organisations. Over the last decade, he has developed innovative techniques to reduce the average length of stay. Driven by clinical and administrative process improvement and improved information management and sharing, these techniques bring all healthcare providers together to improve care and reduce the length of stay. The RealTime software tool facilitates these techniques by establishing a structure and driving workflow to enable closer collaboration of all parties involved in discharge planning.
Prof Abdul Roudsari
Abdul Roudsari is Professor of Health Informatics and the Director of the Centre for Health Informatics (CHI) at City University. He has been a member of the Centre since 1989, having had a particular involvement in a range of research projects concerned with the provision of decision support systems to diabetic patients. Recently he has led a major innovative EU-funded home telecare project and currently an NHS CFH evaluation project in the Pilot Implementation of IT Specification for a Blood Tracking System. His research is focused on Modelling in Healthcare, eHealth, Telecare and Electronic Patient Records.course fee : £295
20% discount for Alumni & City University Students
For further information contact Gill Smith
Impact of emerging and disruptive technologies in healthcare delivery
Date to be confirmed
Topics to be presented by leading health informaticians include:
- - Emerging areas such as implantable chips
- - Case study: RFID and challenges
- - Common user interface
- - Impact of NHS Health informatics review
- - Practical experiences in implementing emerging technology
For further information contact Gill Smith
CHI Seminars
Professor Denis Protti Seminar
Following Professor Denis Protti's lecture on 7 November, attended by the Vice-Chancellor Prof. Malcom Gillies and Dean Prof. Ken Grattan the
presentation slides and
report of the meeting are now available to download .
Dr Francisco Sanchez Seminar
The presentation slides for Dr Francisco Sanchez's seminar are available to download here
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| Presenter: | Christopher Bain (Senior Fellow in Health Informatics (Honorary), CHI Centre for Health Innovation, Melbourne) | |||
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| Presenter: | Paul Taylor (CHIME, University College London) | |||
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| Presenter: | Prof James Barlow (Imperial College Business School, Health & Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre) | |||
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MSc in Health Informatics Award: “Driving innovation: the Dr Foster Intelligence Health Informatics Graduate Award”.
A prize of £1000 will be awarded to the MSc in Health Informatics student with the best dissertation in each year, with the option of a three month internship at Dr Foster Intelligence.
The prize is sponsored by Dr Foster Intelligence and will be known as “Driving innovation: the Dr Foster Intelligence Health Informatics Graduate Award”. The aims of the award are to encourage excellence in postgraduate level research in health informatics and to stimulate public interest in the use and analysis of health information and data.
Dr Foster Intelligence is a joint venture between the Health and Social Care Information Centre (an NHS Special Health Authority) and the private sector, a combination that is designed to improve the delivery of quality information to Health and Social Care organisations and the public. It is a commercial organisation that provides management information to health and social care organisations as well as the voluntary and private sectors.
Knowledge transfer funding for telemonitoring work
Dr. Peter Weller has been awarded a £30K standard grant from the Emerald Fund to explore the commercialisation of his work on remote patient monitoring. The grant will be used to undertake marketing and establish links with potential partners.
The WINORE™ (Wearable Computers in the Operating Room Environment) project uses a wearable computer system to provide a real-time heads-up display of patient condition to clinicians when they are away from the high dependency environment. A prototype system has been evaluated by clinicians and a patent application is ongoing.
The Emerald Proof of Concept Fund is a prestigious funding body established by eight leading universities and supported by the London Development Agency (LDA).
For further information on WINORE please contact Dr. Peter Weller
Email: p.r.weller@city.ac.uk
Tel: 020-7040-8372
CHI Collaboration with PICANet
CHI and Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet) now have collaborative links through the pan Thames PICANet Co-ordinator post.
The PICANet related work at CHI will focus on regional commissioning requirements steered though the regional PICU Health Informatics Group (PHiG) but will of course have relevance to PICU informatics at large. We hope this link between PICANet and CHI will add to PICANet's strength in meeting its core objectives in the future whilst ensuring that CHI's work builds local NHS links and further addresses commissioning requirements.
The pan Thames PICANet Co-ordinator at City is Krish Thiru
email: thiruk1@city.ac.uk
Tel: 0207 040 8370, Mob: 077 681 45759
Those with an interest in PICU health informatics are welcome to contact the unit for further information