Learning to Manage Health Information. A Theme for Clinical Education. Millen D. eHealth week 2010 (Barcelona: CCIB Convention Centre; 2010)

1. eHealth in the Professional
Curriculum
Di Millen
Department of Health Informatics Directorate
(England)
www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/eice

3. 3

5. An Information Rich Environment

6. eHealth & Clinical Practice
• Contribution to patient care • Use of common clinical
• Changing dynamics terms
• Use of computers in • Patient access
consultations • Security and confidentiality
• Shared access to records
• Contribution to the clinical • Maintaining and confirming
record competence
• Information for care • Audit, reports, research,
delivery service management,
• Written communication specifying & using data and
• Writing records for the use information; e-learning
of others

7. “Learning to Manage Health Information –
a theme for clinical education”
• Protecting individuals and organisations
• Data, Information and Knowledge
• Communications and Information Transfer
• Health and Care Records
• The Language of Health (Clinical Coding &
Terminology)
• E-Health: the Future of Clinical Care
• Essential IT Skills

8. “Challenges”
• Language: “eHealth”, • Relevance, impact
“Informatics” and value
• Pre and post- • Build in or bolt on?
registration • Education or training?
• Educator • Access to systems
development • Resources
• Context • Assessment

9. Conclusion
• Tool not topic
• Integral to professional practice
• Change is never easy

10. “That it will ever come into general
use, notwithstanding its value, is
extremely doubtful because its
beneficial application requires
much time and gives a good bit of
trouble, both to the patient and to
the practitioner because its hue
and character are foreign and
opposed to all our habits and
associations.”
The London Times
1834

11. Di Millen
di.millen@nhs.net
+447879444758