Future - History: Information Systems or Care Records

Brian Warboys Professor of Software Engineering at Manchester University has stated that clinical staff lack the skills to make working information systems should leave it to IT professionals. A consultant physician and cardiologist at Bloomsbury and Islington agreed, the HSJ quote as saying:

"The fault lies not with the IT experts but with ourselves as clinicians. If we do not tell them what we want, how can they come up with the answers? ... There is a case for evaluating every IT solution available now and scrapping some of them". p.8.

Health Service Journal, 101:5259, 4 July, 1991.

'Coroners have warned the NHS on dozens of occasions that its record-keeping is so poor that patient's lives are at risk, an investigation by The Times has found. ...

Coroners have issued 62 warnings since 2013 in which they identified failings in record-keeping that could lead to the deaths of other patients.' ...

 'Simon Eccles, of NHSX, which is responsible for improving digitalisation, said that all of England should be covered by digital records by 2024 so staff could access the information needed to provide patients with the best possible care.'

Greenwood, G. Lost notes and illegible records 'risking lives of NHS patients'. The Times, October 2. 2019. p.16.

Follow-up: Drupal ScienceCamp Cambridge 20-21st Jan 2012

Stefan van Hooft @_iCompute kindly took these notes for the Mental Health session, 10.45am 22 January 2012 (mentioned previously on W2tQ). Stefan captured the topics that were quickly and briefly raised among the seven attendees (contact details provided but withheld here). I have added some [additional comments] and my response follows:

--- Twitter hash tags ---
Mental Health #mhuk #ukmh [global mental health hash?]

RDF
Solr
Sparkle [SparQL]

• accessibility within website
• openair Open source mental health [OpenEHR]
• mental health record
• care plans
Who has access to information?

•  Set up a system, you can give and revoke others access to your data
• "Flourishing" or "In treatment"

Use Drupal:
     - distribution
     - accessibility
     -
Is there a Group on drupal.org about mental health?

Security is crucial!
Pubsubhubbup [ http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/ ]
Spartacus report
Burn out
#Nhssm, NHS social media

<->

Dear Stefan and All,

STEFAN'S SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL

I am interested in the application you showed, it reminds me of the STAR - SPIDER format and approach. I think there's a tool like this in forensic mental health - and no doubt other areas?

http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2010/06/carers-support-evidence-measures-and.html

At some point Stefan it would be good to feature your image based tool when suitably complete on my blog; do you have a video at all?

HODGES MODEL

If anyone is interested in receiving more details on Hodges model please let me know. This model looks simple but it is really powerful in terms of scope and application.

...

FUTURE MEETING

Matthew mentioned the possibility of a small gathering combining mental health and Drupal. I'd be pleased to help with publicity - twitter, FB, Linkedin and the blog and have links with many other groups.

DRUPAL HEALTH GROUP

Here is the link to the health care Drupal group:

http://groups.drupal.org/healthcare

- note at the top the link to Drupal health care sites.

openEHR

Here is openEHR which I mentioned:

http://www.openehr.org

RDF and related

http://drupal.org/project/neologism

Lovely to meet everyone and really pleased to have the chance to share an hour (after the meeting) with Beatrice and Matthew. It is very good that mental health and disability came up at a Drupal meet. I hope to attend Drupalcon Munich so maybe there is scope for a BoF meeting in the summer?

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Shortly I'll post some additional observations by Matthew Taylor another participant. There I'll expand on my requirements and expectations of Drupal.

Drupal tinkering - Salamander's in the sand

I keep thinking of drawing a line in the sand as to when the new Drupal site will go live, but then a curious clucking sound takes over and my arms flap uselessly at my sides. The image below is a screenshot using the Salamander theme for Drupal 6.2. As you can see I have not altered the themes default logo, or the colour scheme; but I'm starting to find my way around the menus at last.

I've started to add other users and as you can see have created a forum with topics and posts. The rail ticket image is neither transparent, nor exactly territorial in disposition. It should be possible to set a default vertical and horizontal spacing for images in the archived content. There is another choice to be made in which drop capitals format to adopt. Having read through jQuery in Action, it is time to revisit the book and really experiment.


Assuming there is a community out there - a series of forums on Hodges' model must be at the heart of the new site, but this begs the question of what tools would a community of Hodges' model users need? Drupal's content types can be extended, but how much effort (if any) should go into such resources? Should they be ready-rolled, or should the community identify the need, specify the requirements and produce the goods? Can an MSWord.doc h2cm template provide a start, or is a more adventurous seed required?

So far several people have used the model for their studies or in specific clinical areas. It makes sense then to try to produce a content type that can be configured by the user for these purposes. It makes even better sense to invite registered users to post their contributions. While I continue to piece the new site together, I must investigate the available Drupal modules and Open-EHR. I had heard of 'Open-air' before in passing and last week at Harrogate learned of it in more detail. I wonder what form and scope the archetypes take? Open-EHR may be far too sophisticated for our purposes, but now is a good time to check.