progress with professionalism - jean roberts
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Workshop 16.11.2011
Progress with Professionalism
Jean RobertsDirector (Standards), [email protected]
Workshop format
• Perspectives–HI in general–IT–Other Health Professions–Academic and Operational
• Interactive session• Feedback and Next Steps
HEALTH
INFORMATICS (IT, IM and
Information Science)HEALTH INFORMATICS COMMUNITYICT, IT,
incl Computer Science / studies
Information Management
KnowledgeManageme
nt
ClinicalInformatics + User Experienc
e
EducationTraining
Development
Research
HealthRecords
Management
Note : ALL constituencies have
public &private health, academic and commercial
existences
PortfolioProgramme
Project Management Managing
HI Services
Stating the Obvious?
• Delivering support to complex care by multi-professional / cross-sectoral organisations, 24/7
• Informatics increasingly recognised as a core function of the NHS and other care delivery bodies.
“informatics staff involved in the production and operation of major eHealth developments aimed at supporting more effective healthcare services in many countries must be ‘fit to practice’ professionals”
• Informatics is more business critical every year
Vision: Health Informatics to be recognised as a valued profession
globally
• Promoting advancement and dissemination of knowledge about health informatics
• Defining and agreeing standards of professional conduct and competence required of people working in health informatics
• Publishing and maintaining an open register of health informatics professionals in or for the UK and …?
• Demonstrating its own professional authority and legitimacy through assurance of its own processes and procedures
Over-arching challenge• All persons who spend a substantial
proportion of their role or time working in health informatics
• in or for the <geography> should be registered with <xx>CHIP and thereby
• certified as professionals • who meet defined standards of professional
conduct and competence• on an ongoing basis
HI-specific Issues to consider• Brand, scope and scale of Health Informatics – A ‘Confusion’ of workforce standards
• Senior buy-in to recognising professionalism• Priority to get working systems and solutions• Decision support is a ‘given’ until quality is
challenged – tradition of ‘blame the computer’• Proving Value: risk to ‘not direct patient care’ • Pace of Change• Self-worth