Integrated Health Records (IHR) - Practice and Technology09 March, 06 10:00 AM - 10 March, 06 04:00 PMe-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, , Edinburgh |
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Any slides or other material generated as a result of this event can be found at: www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=648
This event follows on from the successful workshop held in 2003 "Integrated Care Records: Problems and Solutions" which aimed to share research and experience of electronic health record projects in action. Much has happened in the intervening time. There have been significant developments in technologies, progress with (and controversy surrounding) implementation programmes (in England and Wales, NPfIT, now "Connecting for Health"), as well as a shift towards closer integration between clinical practice and medical research.
Although the principle goal of integrated health records remains improving care through timely and location independent access to medical records, this (complex enough) objective is becoming increasingly linked with ambitious agendas relating to e-Health (e.g., personal access to health services and information) and e-Science (e.g., use of clinical data for research). At the same time, many of the anticipated problems associated with IHR delivery have come to the fore (e.g., data quality, clinical acceptance, confidentiality, meshing national and local priorities and systems, fit with clinical practice). It is timely, therefore, to reflect on and share experiences of delivering the IHR, as well as on its emerging relations with e-Science and e-Health.
This workshop will bring together healthcare practitioners, social care workers, clinical researchers, social scientists, e-Scientists and policy makers interested in the problems associated with accessing and integrating health care data for service delivery and research. It will focus on a range of socio-technical issues pertaining to the deployment of robust, secure, trusted, ethically acceptable and usable systems.
While the problems raised by data integration in healthcare mirror those encountered in many areas of e-Science, the use of Grid technologies does not yet feature strongly in IHR delivery plans. We see this event as an opportunity for the e-Science community to learn of the context and problems of clinical record system integration (where, for example, the boundaries between clinical practice and research are becoming increasingly blurred), and for the community of healthcare practitioners and researchers grappling with record integration to learn how e-Science and Grid technologies may be of benefit to them. To this end, we plan to dedicate one afternoon of the workshop to an exploration of the relationship between e-Science and IHR.
Reflecting on the dual themes of 'practice' and 'technology', papers are invited on (but not limited to) the following topics:
Papers (3000-5000 words) and abstracts (1000 words) are invited for long and short presentations respectively.
Contributors will be invited to submit their papers for a special issue of the Health Informatics Journal on Integrated Health Records.
Papers due: Monday 16th Jan 2006
Notification of acceptance : Friday 27th Jan 2006
Paper submissions and queries by e-mail to: Mark Hartswood (mjh@inf.ed.ac.uk)
The event will aim to bring together healthcare practitioners, social care workers, clinical researchers, social scientists, e-Scientists and policy makers interested in solving the problems associated with accessing and integrating health care data for improved service delivery and research.
Day 1: 10:00am - 5.00pm
Day 2: 9:00 am - 4.00pm.
The latest full agenda can be viewed here
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Please note that there will be a £27.50 registration fee to cover the cost of dinner.
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