UKCHIP Magazine June 2014

June 2014

T H E M A G A Z I N E F O R H E A LT H A N D C A R E I N F O R M AT I C S P R O F E S S I O N A L S

The Federation of Health Informatics

What do YOU think?

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June 2014

The Federation of Health Informatics (Fed-HI)

Initial Consultation Results

What we’re trying to do BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, the UK Council of Health Informatics Professions (UKCHIP) and the Institute of Health Records and Information Management (IHRIM) are working to create a new Federation for the Health Informatics profession. The collaboration between these three autonomous bodies is intended to set common standards for professionalism, education and competence in health informatics, offer wider development opportunities and enhance the standing and reputation of all Informatics professionals, no matter to which discipline they might belong.

What we asked you At the launch of the Federation during the HC2014 conference in March, and subsequently through online channels, a process of consultation was begun which will continue more widely over the next three months. IT and information experts in health were asked three open questions about the priorities they thought the Federation should be addressing; What is important to you? Why is it important? What are the best ways of

involving you and your professional colleagues to make sure we get this right?

The Federation had its first meeting in shadow form at the beginning of May and we have been very encouraged by the initial responses

(around 100) that we have received.

What you’ve told us so far Your main message is that you believe that we need leaders in the health sector who understand the importance of Health Informatics and appreciate the value of Health Informatics professionalism to patient safety and public trust. You want us to become an independent single voice for policy and professionalism. You believe that Informatics is critical to better healthcare and that recognition of the role of informatics professionals is long over due. You want us to provide leadership to enable the views of the profession to be taken into account in the development and implementation of health ICT policy. You also want us to promote increased professionalism through the adoption of professional standards which are a sign of a mature profession and will help to maintain public trust in the handling of personal information You want us to provide a Skills Framework and offer opportunities for Continuing Professional Development You believe that this will help you with career progression because it is important to develop people and not just promote technology. Providing an approach that helps to assess staff competencies of staff, underpins professional recognition. You also think there is a role for us in developing curricula and qualification pathways and levels of

entry (to the profession), including producing person specifications aligned with Knowledge and Skills Frameworks. You want us to make sure that there is full recognition and appreciation of how integral health IT is to patient safety and service improvement You believe that fully engaging with health professionals in the delivery of healthcare services will lead to better use of technology and increased innovation. It will also drive up professional standards and in turn will help individuals to be accepted as a professional in the healthcare delivery process.

You’ve told us that you would like us to involve you through.. Wide Representation You would like as wide as possible within the Federation to ensure it is not dominated by one group within the health informatics domain. You believe that the best value and biggest impact will come from a range of different people working in different aspects of health IT and informatics and not just from one dominant perspective. Developing the Evidence and Knowledge Base You want to be actively involved in contributing to the recognised body of Health Informatics knowledge, including evidence of best practice. You suggested that this could be achieved in a range of ways including: Keeping informatics

professionals informed through events and opportunities to

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share ideas Setting up 'Best Practice Demo

Days' Developing think tanks and

innovation boards Providing support funding for

innovative ideas Disseminating information on

new techniques and best practice

Sharing global best practice by collaborating with governmental bodies and other professional bodies

Providing evidence of change produced by informaticians

Providing support for CCIO's and their equivalents

Sharing information about specific pieces of work informatics professionals are predominantly engaged in within their roles, e.g. what IT/data/information is

needed to draw on in order to pull out commonalities in key data/info requirements

to identify patterns to help prioritise what the Federation might consider focusing on - in terms of training, key work areas

Identifying the activities undertaken across different service models and seeing how people can share and work together

Sharing details of work done in individual Trusts and 'the centre'

Identifying skills needed to avoid ongoing disastrous decisions born of ignorance

Providing guidance on career profiles in health informatics

Recommending courses to support CPD, with details of training opportunities and updates

Communications & Consultation You told us that it was very important to have open 2-way communication and a process of

engagement, enabled through: Surveys (like this one) Forming specialist working

groups to manage comment and respond on specific issues and topics of special interest

Having regular communications through: Networking Events Seminars Focused Conferences Focused Webinars and

Seminars Developing interactive

guidance Virtual networking Workshops on active topics

Targeting appropriate senior government/NHS officials and 'banks' of staff such as analysts at Board/Trust level

Getting (professionalism) issues higher on local branch agendas

Having a clear and consistent message as to the value of the Federation, not just to individuals personally but also to those that engage or employ them

Encouraging recognition of the Federation by employers in the field of Health Informatics and by politicians and health policy makers

What happens next? 1. Our consultation period ends in

October so there’s plenty of time to let us have even more of your views via our web site www.ukchip.org/?page_id=5420. Keep them coming in and if you’ve already responded please tell your colleagues to do so as well. This is their main chance to influence the future direction of their profession.

2. We’ve held a number of workshops and attended conferences to talk to people directly to explain what we are

trying to do and to listen to their

views. So far, in April & May we’ve been to Northern Ireland Health & Social Care and the North West Informatics Skills Network. We also plan to engage with the devolved governments in Scotland and Wales and CIO Networks in the North of England, South West England, Yorkshire and the EHI CIO Council. If you would like us to come to one of your local meetings then please let us know by emailing

[email protected].

3. We are already engaging with NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre, both of whom are completely behind what we are trying to achieve and are working with us to actively promote the cause of Informatics Professionalism across the NHS.

4. We have begun to engage with other professional bodies to see how we can work more closely together, including the possibility of enrolling as members of the Federation.

5. We are also engaging with private sector companies who are involved in providing health informatics expertise or services to the NHS to understand what would be a good value proposition for them.

6. We intend to use the feedback that we have obtained so far - and everything we continue to receive up until October - to inform the 3 year strategy and annual plan. We will publish this when we launch the Federation

by the end of this year.

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June 2014

In May, as part of the EHI Digital Health Festival, BCS ASSIST held a Mentoring Day, to promote its growing mentoring scheme. Delegates had the opportunity to hear from those who have been mentored and to meet potential experienced mentors. Gwyn Thomas, Professional Life and Executive Coach & Leadership Mentor, gave the keynote address entitled 'How mentoring can help you to achieve what you want to achieve in your career’. BCS ASSIST believes that mentoring will help develop the next generation in health informatics by focussing on holistic development. This

includes development outside an individual’s area of work and current knowledge. Mentoring also encourages the sharing of resources and development of networks. Wendy Dearing, Chair of BCS ASSIST, explained that it decided to create the mentoring programme after it noticed a gap between the strong networks in place for chief clinical information officers and other current leaders, and a lack of those same networks for developing professionals. To read more about Wendy’s thoughts on mentoring and the

Mentoring is a

brain to pick, an

ear to listen,

and a push in

the right

direction.

background to the scheme, see ‘Assisting with Mentoring’ published by e-Health Insider at http://www.ehi.co.uk/insight/analysis/1286/assisting-with-mentoring. Following its success in finding young professionals who want to be involved, BCS ASSIST is now looking for more mentors to join the expanding scheme. If you would like to help young informatics professionals grow and develop, and can offer experience, impartial advice, access to networks and a small amount of time on a regular basis, please contact [email protected].

BCS ASSIST will also be holding more mentoring days, including in September at BCS London and at EHI Live in November. More details will be published soon.

More Mentors needed by BCS

ASSIST Mentoring Scheme

Image above courtesy of nokhoog_buchachon / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Front cover image courtesy of Stuart Miles / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Inside this Issue

2 Federation of Health Informatics Update 8 Could you be an assessor on the Integrated Digital Care Fund?

4 BCS ASSIST Mentoring Scheme 9 Sophie’s last Blog

5 Reducing Health Inequalities 9 IHRIM Chief Operations Officer - vacancy

6 Can we pass the Family and Friends Test?

10 Events

7 Tech Fund 2 12 About UKCHIP

8 Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh gets UKCHIP accredited

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Reducing Health Inequalities

In the last edition I wrote an introduction to the work that we were just about to commence in the HSCIC entitled: ‘DIGITAL HEALTH - Can it put Patients in control and reduce Health

Inequalities?’

Things are progressing well with the Patients Association and AbilityNet online guides for Health and Social Care Informaticians to help in the design of accessible digital information systems and they will be launched very shortly.

Volunteers from the Patients Association, Renal Patient

Support Group and AbiltyNet also did a wonderful job engaging delegates in the Patient Engagement Zone at the BCS HC2014 event in March and offering design advice and a critique of systems to Young Entrepreneurs.

The picture below shows Howard Leicester, who organised the ‘I nose IT’ competition in the Zone with one of the presenters, Gary Shuckford. In this competition delegates were challenged to type and send a message without using their hands.

On 5th June we ran a webinar featuring the Hurley Group of GP Practices’ e-consultation model for 100 common conditions which has dramatically improved access to Primary Care services within some of the UK’s most deprived communities in East London and has been used

by over 25,000 patients in its first 6 months. The webinar was led by Dr Arvind Madan - GP and chief executive officer, Hurley Group and Alpa Bisarya – Business Manager at the Hurley Group and covered their experience in developing and implementing the service, and the impact that it has had to date.

You can view a recording of the webex at https://

connectingforhealth.webex.com/

connectingforhealth/ldr.php?RCID=7b97dd0977f32b5243edcd52

019ba1d6

I’d really welcome it if UKCHIP registrants would share their knowledge and examples of how they’ve been able to ensure that a ‘Digital Divide’ doesn’t develop that may disadvantage Patients and Carers who are most in need of access to information and services to manage and improve their health and care.

Please contact me at: [email protected] if you’d like to be further involved or look out for future UKCHIP bulletins publicising the work.

Bruce Elliott is a Developing Informatics Skills and Capability Programme Manager at the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)

A number of future webinars are planned, which will be free and open to all. Keep an eye on the UKCHIP website for details or email [email protected] to be added to our mailing list.

Howard Leicester demonstrating to Gary Shuckford, that using IT is not the same for everyone.

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June 2014

My family members have often struggled to understand what I do. Having had job titles over the years such as Widening Participation Manager, Head of Organisational Development, and Programme Manager – Building Communities who can blame them. But ‘Informatics’ (the ‘I’ word) really has continued to bamboozle them all. Similarly my friends usually rush to get me another pint of Rivet Catcher rather than talk about the latest Information Strategy, interoperability toolkit or clinical portal. At a recent Public Health and Primary Care event a couple of my HSCIC colleagues who work in Data Analysis and Statistical roles were puzzled about my passion and enthusiasm for ‘Informatics’, as they hadn’t heard or used the term before in their own excellent work. And now as I embark on a really exciting Social Care ‘Informatics’ project I’m again having to explain the ‘I’ word to people who are doing exemplary work in Health and Social Care Informatics. Some of my friends and family have been impressed by my attempts to make informatics

relevant to them through, for example, my blogs on caring for our elderly parents from a distance and on forgetting to take your medicine. However, the ‘I’ word on its own just doesn’t inspire them. Do you have similar problems? Do Actuaries, Quantity Surveyors and Facilities Management experts along with many other professions have the same issues in engaging friends and family in the benefits of their work? Should we worry about the lack of understanding of the ‘I’ word and of our profession? Deidre I hope that you can help with some anecdotes and answers, and ideally some inspiration too so that Health and Social Care Informatics can pass the test. Yours in hope and anticipation.

Bruce (Bruce Elliott Programme Manager, Developing Informatics Skills and Capability, Health and Social Care Information Centre.) Image courtesy of

photostock /

FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Health and Social Care Informatics – Can we pass the friends and family test? Dear Deidre and fellow UKCHIP registrants, I desperately need your help. Let me explain more. The NHS Friends and Family Test asks patients whether they would recommend hospital wards, A&E departments and maternity services to their friends and family if they needed similar care or treatment. There’s been much debate about whether the test is an accurate way to get representative feedback on the quality of services, but one thing most commentators do agree on is that it has helped to establish the importance of viewing services from the customer’s perspective. It got me thinking about what do our friends and family think of the term: ‘Health and Social Care Informatics’ and the quality of services that we all provide?

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Tech Fund 2

14 May saw the launch by NHS

England of the second round of

applications for what has become

colloquially known as the “Tech

Fund” but more properly described

as “The Digital Integrated Care

Fund – Achieving integrated

health and care records” (http://

www.england.nhs.uk/2014/05/14/

idcf-phase2/). Similarly to round

one, the deadline is challenging -

14 July, giving a nine week

timeframe for anyone

interested.

There are some differences for

this round and eligibility has

been extended to local

authorities too. The focus of

the fund is on projects that

capture and link clinical care

information in digital care

records within NHS Trusts and

Foundation Trusts and between

NHS Trusts/Foundation Trusts

and local authorities. As with the

first tranche of funding, it also

promotes further investment in e-

Prescribing solutions, particularly

focusing on paediatric care.

Applications can be at any stage

of the project lifecycle and there is

no minimum or maximum bid

value.

The focus of successful

applications to the fund should be

those solutions that enable the

applicant to become increasingly

more digitally mature by adding

clinical capabilities that they do not

currently possess. More

importantly, solutions should

enable clinicians to integrate

information that currently remains

housed in unconnected silos

across the organisation.

The value of the capital fund is

£240m in total with £160m

available in the current year and

£80m in 2015/16. Successful

applicants will be required to

match-fund any award with their

own investment. Value for

money is a key component of all

bids and eligibility criteria are

designed to ensure that the fund

delivers an overall return greater

than 2.4:1 in line with HM

Treasury guidelines.

Other key phrases in the

guidance include:

…develop proposals that

coherently reflect their

local strategy for moving

from paper to paper-light

to paperless digital care

record keeping.

…improving care pathways

and transforming clinical/

professional workflows…..

…Open Source solutions are

particularly welcome.

…they key concepts of the

NHS Number, Open APIs

and use of existing

technology standards.

Effective information

governance is essential to

balancing the competing

demands of sharing

information whilst also

addressing key security and

privacy concerns.

Whilst applicants are warned that

they must satisfy the minimum

criteria regarding ‘Project

Readiness’ and ‘Delivery

Capability’, it is clear that in the

event of the fund being heavily

oversubscribed, priority will be

given to organisations with

relatively low levels of digital

maturity and those unsuccessful in

applying to the first round.

The 57 pages of guidance also

offer detailed advice on what

criteria will be used for

assessment of bids, how to bid

and how the process will operate.

There is a Commercial and

Procurement “Toolkit” to support

applicants in the delivery of

Integrated Digital Care Fund

projects. Successful applicants will

be expected to sign an award

agreement setting out their

obligations before they receive

funding. This will include tracking

and publicising benefits.

There will be a spectrum of views

about the approach currently

being used by NHS England to

encourage investment in

technology but most will welcome

investment of the proportions that

have been announced in these

two rounds of funding now totaling

around half a billion pounds of

central monies.

Mik Horswell

UKCHIP Director of Marketing

Image courtesy of hyena reality /

FreeDigitalPhotos.net

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June 2014

Business

Intelligence at

Wrightington,

Wigan and Leigh

NHS Foundation

Trust, gets

UKCHIP accredited

Mark Singleton, Head of Business Intelligence at the Trust, was looking for a way to gain accreditation of his department so invited UKCHIP to come and support his staff to register.

Mark says, ‘“The department has recently set itself the goal of providing the best Business

Intelligence in the country, getting the whole team accredited with UKCHIP is one of the steps in achieving that, not only does it assist with the teams personal development plans but it provides the team with external recognition for the knowledge, skill and service we provide.”

Di Bullman, the UKCHIP Registrar, visited the department and gave a presentation covering aspects of health informatics professionalism, including:

What is health informatics and who is eligible to register with UKCHIP?

Why professional registration is important to ensure patient safety and public trust

The benefits to individuals and their employers

Di also went on to explain the registration standards and the registration process itself.

Staff were able to complete the online registration process, with Di on hand to answer questions and provide advice. Several staff completed their applications while Di was on site and others started and completed later. UKCHIP will now assess the applications according to its registration standards.

Lynne Northing, a Data Analyst within Business Intelligence said about registration, “It is good to be able to show proof of our accomplishments and abilities in our chosen career in an easy way that produces tangible results. It would also be a boost to any department to be able to say that each member is accredited. This is like adding a gold star to the department as a whole!”

If your department would like to arrange a similar workshop or talk about registration for your department, please contact Di Bullman on [email protected].

Integrated Digital Care Fund - An invitation to be an assessor

In July 2013 NHS England launched the Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards Technology Fund. Over 770 applications to the fund were received, and following completion of a rigorous assessment process, over £200m of capital investment was awarded to organisations. A further £240m for the second tranche of the technology fund was announced in September 2013, with funding available for NHS Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts and local authorities to progress deployment and adoption of integrated digital care records. The prospectus for this fund – the Integrated Digital Care Fund – was launched on Wednesday of this week – 14th May – with a closing date for applications of Monday 14th July 2014. In the first tranche, an important element of the assessment process was an interview with applicants. We intend to repeat this process this time around. The interview process is resource intensive, so we are keen to widen the pool of potential interviewers. The bulk of the assessments will take place throughout July, August and September at venues in Leeds and London. Potential assessors need to be available for the whole day and training (via WebEx, written resources and face to face where necessary) will be provided. Assessors are not required to have particular specialist technical knowledge. The investment in intended to support the introduction of new clinical workflows and improve care so colleagues from clinical background and those with experience of delivering innovation and change in the NHS and social care are particularly welcome. If you are interested in participating in the assessment process, please email [email protected].

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Sophie’s Last Blog Hi all!

Lots to catch up on since my last blog..

Since January I have progressed with my Health Informatics studies in Cardiff Open University and am currently undertaking my end of module assignment.

In March I attended the National Health IT conference and Exhibition in Manchester HC which

was a massive event and an amazing opportunity for me and a fellow apprentice to get the invite.

Earlier on in the month I attended my NWIS Apprentice Skills Programme, which involved presentations from various NWIS Network managers and project management team. As well as these guests we also had the opportunity to present to each other in terms of where we plan on taking our career now that the end of the apprenticeship is in sight.

Last but not least, I’m pleased to confirm I’ve managed to be lucky enough to secure a permanent post with Aneurin Bevan University Health Board working as an

Job Vacancy – Chief Operations Officer of IHRIM (Institute of Health Records and Information Management UK)

Due to the retirement of the current post holder, IHRIM is looking to appoint a highly motivated successor to take up this post.

The hours are 15 per week worked predominantly between the hours of nine to five, Monday to Friday, but the post holder is expected to attend weekend meetings of the IHRIM Board at least twice per annum and also to participate in evening conference calls once a month. The post holder would work from home.

Experience and a broad knowledge of health informatics are highly desirable. The post holder must be astute, act in a professional manner and be able to communicate at a senior level with personnel in the NHS and healthcare in general, and at the Department of Health. Applicants need not be a member of the Institute but would be expected to become a member if appointed to the post.

The Job Description for the post is available on the IHRIM web site www.ihrim.co.uk

Salary: £14,000 per annum

Annual leave: 25 days per annum pro rata

Informal enquiries may be made to Isabel Chevis FHRIM at [email protected] or by telephone on 01767 220650.

Applicants should submit their curriculum vitae to the National Chairman, Kim Bellis FHRIM, 44 Moresk Close, Truro, Cornwall TR1 1DL. [email protected] This should be accompanied by a supporting statement and a document outlining the applicant’s vision for IHRIM over the following five years.

Closing date for applications is Friday 27th June 2014

engineer on their IT Service desk.

This will be my last blog now as the apprenticeship is coming to an end..

Over and out, many thanks for reading!

Sophie

Sophie Rogers was IT apprentice with NHS Wales Informatics Service. She has blogged about her experiences as a new informatics professional throughout her apprenticeship and you can see her previous blogs on the UKCHIP website at www.ukchip.org. We wish her all the best for her future in HI.

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June 2014

June 2014 is a busy month for the Connected Health Ecosystem Network Almost 1000 people will be participating in ECHAlliance Ecosystem meetings across Europe in June. 11 June 2014 Oulu Connected Health Ecosystem @ Pohto, Vellamontie, Oulu Finland 19 June 2014 Manchester Connected Health Ecosystem @ The Landing, Media City, Salford, England 20 June 2014 Northern Ireland Connected Health Ecosystem @ SE HSC Trust Innovation Centre, Northern Ireland 26 June 2014 North West Coast Health Ecosystem Launch @ Aintree Racecourse, England Additional Ecosystem locations and dates to be announced shortly. Contact us to learn more email [email protected]

5th EU-US eHealth Marketplace / Cooperation Assembly, 20 - 22 October 2014 Part of MA Connected Health Week. Don't miss the chance to showcase your technology and meet

innovators and leaders at the prestigious Boston State House at http://www.masstech.org/tedhealthweek

Themes of Health Insights Spring/Summer 2014 include how the Safer

Hospitals, Safer Wards Technology Fund is progressing, and how care

providers have worked with suppliers to secure funding in order to support

collaborative and integrated care. NHS England will provide an update on

the Technology Fund and the current initiatives created to provide on-

going support to health and social care organisations.

The programme will be directed by John Rayner of the Health Informatics Service, who will again be

chairing these events, this time alongside Roy Lilley, Independent Health Policy Analyst, Writer,

Broadcaster and Commentator. These ever popular events are free to attend for invited healthcare

professionals.

11 June—Stamford Bridge, Chelsea Football Club, London 18 June - Villa Park, Birmingham 2 July—Manchester City Football Club, Manchester http://healthinsights.co.uk/events/london

Events

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20% discount for UKCHIP registrants Healthcare Conferences UK hold a number of healthcare

informatics conferences for those working in or with an interest in

healthcare IT and developing electronic systems to support quality,

efficiency and the secure management of electronic records in the

drive to deliver a paperless NHS by 2018.

A 20% discount is available to UKCHIP contacts by quoting ref: hcuk20UKCHIP when booking.

(*Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. Full T&Cs available upon request.)

Electronic Prescribing In Hospitals

Moving Forward

Tuesday 1 July 2014, Manchester

For a 20% Discount Quote: HCUK20UKCHIP

Jeremy Hunt, Health Secretary announced on 15 January 2013 that the NHS is to become paperless by

2018 and focused on electronic prescribing as a key element of this approach. In May 2013 the £260 million

technology fund was announced to support trusts to move from paper-based systems for patient notes and

prescriptions to integrated electronic care records and the development of e-prescribing and e-referral

systems. This conference looks at moving forward with Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration

(EPMA) in a hospital setting as part of the paperless NHS. Electronic Prescribing has the potential to support

the medicines use process that can be delivered at every stage from prescribing to administration. Electronic

Prescribing can provide management of prescriptions and will also give immediate access to medicines

information.

For further information and to book your place visit http://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/

electronic-prescribing-in-hospitals-epma or email [email protected]

Follow the conference on Twitter #EPrescribing

Wednesday 10 September 2014, Richmond Building, University of Portsmouth The annual SIHI conference will be held in Portsmouth on Wednesday 10 September and we invite you to participate. The conference theme this year is "Informatics to deliver integrated care". Health and social care services are aspir-ing to deliver truly integrated care. Information is what makes that possible. The programme will explore the information lifecycle from population needs analysis, through commissioning and service design to operational delivery and evalua-tion. What is working really well? Where are there gaps in information flow? How can we learn from exemplar projects and services? We will have national and regional keynote speakers and a range of invited and submitted presentations. In addition, the “Infomart”, an informal information marketplace area, will allow vendors and researchers to set out a stall to meet people and exchange information. SIHI each year brings together practitioners, vendors and academics to participate in learning and discussion. The SIHI 2014 conference website is at http://sihi.port.ac.uk/sites/2014 where you can find the latest on confirmed speakers. If you would be interested in contributing to the programme or if you have an idea you would like to discuss, please email me on [email protected]. Proposals for presentations should be accompanied by a 100-150 word outline, and will be considered until the programme is finalised. Dr Philip Scott Conference chairman

Southern Institute for Health Informatics 2014 Annual Conference

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We have a logo for registrants to use on their email signatures

or personal website, and a free lapel badge.

If you would like a badge or copy of the logo please email [email protected]

Contact us:

Mik Horswell [email protected]

Di Bullman [email protected] Tel: 0113 397 4384

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New Federation of HI Magazine

As the Federation develops, the partners will start to work more closely together. One of the first

steps will be the production of a joint magazine. So, this will be the last issue of the UKCHIP

magazine, as it is now. Everyone on the UKCHIP mailing list who currently receives the

magazine will automatically be sent the new Federation magazine, unless you let us know that

you don’t want to receive it. If you have any queries about this please contact

[email protected].

Why not join us on social media for news updates and pictures, and to take part in discussions with other HI professionals