Health Informatics Education in the ICS Curriculum

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Health Informatics Education in the ICS
Curriculum The need for Benchmarking

• Paul McCullagh, University of Ulster
• Peter Murray, Centre for Health Informatics
  Research and Development (CHIRAD),University
  College Winchester

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Health Informatics

• The knowledge, skills, and tools which enable
  information to be collected, managed, used and
  shared to support the delivery of healthcare and
  to promote health.
• UK Department of Health

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What is the National Programme for IT?
NHS Care Records Service
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N3, the National Network
Electronic Transmission of Prescriptions
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National Occupational Standards

• lead, promote and manage the use of resources to
  improve health care delivery
• identify, collect, analyse, disseminate and
  maintain data and information to improve
  healthcare delivery
• enable, develop and manage knowledge to improve
  healthcare delivery
• plan, implement, sustain and review the provision
  of ICT to support and improve healthcare
  delivery.

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Benchmark

• The conceptual framework that gives a
  discipline its coherence and identity about the
  intellectual capability and understanding that
  should be developed, the techniques and skills
  which are associated with developing an
  understanding in that discipline and the level
  of intellectual demand and challenge which is
  appropriate to that discipline.

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Taxonomy

• Remembering
• Understanding
• Applying
• Analysing
• Evaulating
• Creating
• Anderson

• Knowledge
• Comprehension
• Application
• Analysis
• Synthesis
• Evaluation
• Bloom

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Computing Benchmark

• Hardware HW
• Computer architecture and construction HW1
• Processor architecture HW2
• Device-level issues and fabrication technology
  HW3
• Software SW
• Programming languages SW1
• Software tools and packages SW2
• Computer applications SW3
• Structuring of data and information SW4
• Communication and interaction CI
• Computer networks, distributed systems CI1
• Human-computer interaction, involving
  communication between computers and people CI2
• Operating systems the control of computers,
  resources and interactions CI3

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Computing Benchmark cont

• Practice P
• Problem identification and analysis P1
• Design, development, testing and evaluation P2
• Management and organization P3
• Professionalism and ethics P4
• Commercial and industrial exploitation P5
• Theory T
• Algorithm design and analysis T1
• Formal methods and description techniques T2
• Modelling and frameworks T3
• Analysis, prediction and generalization T4
• Human behaviour and performance T5
• Accepted areas within Computing include
  Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science,
  Information Systems, Software Engineering,
  Multi-media and Networks form. However HI also
  falls within this scope.

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Otley ponds 221 ducks

• Health and social care care processes HSC
• Health (care) records HCR
• Health informatics standards HIS
• Computer Science for Health Informatics (ICT for
  Health) CHI
• Health and Social care Industry HSI
• Knowledge Domains Knowledge Discovery KDD
• Legal EthicalLE
• People in organisations PIO
• Politics and policy PAP
• Terminology, classification and grouping TCG
• Toolkit (systems) TLK
• Uses of clinical information UCI
• Uses of informatics to support clinical
  healthcare governance CHG

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St Georges benchmark statements

• Level 1
• 1. Identify a need for IT tools in medicine and
  healthcare
• 2. Practice principles in learning and
  development
• 3. Apply knowledge of how to organise information
  and knowledge services
• 4. Present skills required in the administration
  of patients and their records
• 5. Describe characteristics of health information
  systems
• 6. Explain basic informatics / computer science
  (basic computer theory and use)
• 7. Understand concepts in mathematics and
  biometry (main emphasis on statistics)
• Level 2
• 8. Operate methods of practical
  informatics/computer science (further
  applications beyond basic)
• 9. Demonstrate use of application software
• 10. Relate an ability to process data and
  information
• 11. Evaluate informatics standards
• 12. Display an awareness of the fields of
  Medicine, health and biosciences and NHS
  organisation
• 13. Show appropriate and professional attitudes
  and behaviour when dealing with customers
• 14. Show evidence of specialities applicable to
  biomedical informatics
• Level 3
• 15. Critically discuss ethical issues
• 16. Manage Information and Communication
  Technology

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St Georges Mapping
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MSC Informatics

• 11K SUBJECT RELATED QUALITIES
• Knowledge and Understanding
• Graduates of the course will be well-versed in
  advanced aspects of the following
• K1 software engineering
• K2 principles and techniques for storage,
  manipulation and retrieval of data
• K3 emerging technologies for constructing
  computational systems
• K4 architectures for computational systems.
• Teaching and Learning Methods Lectures,
  tutorials, seminars, practical sessions,
  self-study, project work for dissertation.
• Assessment Methods Coursework assessment,
  written examinations, dissertation examination
  including project oral.
• 11I INTELLECTUAL QUALITIES
• Graduates of the course will be able to
• I1 abstract and model real-world problems in
  terms of computer science concepts
• I2 conceptualise original design solutions to
  computer science problems
• I3 critically evaluate and integrate the
  arguments of others in the area of computer
  science research and/or professional practice
• I4 reason critically in the area of computer
  science and software engineering.
• Learning and Teaching Methods Lectures,
  student-led seminars, practical work and
  self-directed learning employing research based
  materials.
• Assessment Methods Coursework related to case
  studies and projects, written examinations,
  dissertation examination including project oral.

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MSC Informatics cont

• 11P PROFESSIONAL/PRACTICAL SKILLS
• Graduates of the course will also be able to
• P1 specify a complex computer-based system using
  tools and techniques from best practice in
  software engineering
• P2 design, implement and evaluate software
  solutions to problems in their professional area
  of interest and in the process respond to changes
  in the problem area, and the software and
  hardware available
• P3 write reports, using complex arguments, for
  various audiences, users, management, other
  professionals and/or the academic community
• P4 undertake a substantial piece of work in an
  area at the forefront of research or practice in
  computer science and report on it professionally.
• Learning and Teaching Methods Lectures,
  tutorials, problem-based seminars and practical
  work, coursework, project work (including
  literature review).
• Assessment Methods Coursework assessment,
  written examinations, dissertation assessment
  including project oral.
• 11T TRANSFERABLE SKILLS
• The course will also inculcate in the students
  the ability to
• T1 structure complex ideas and convey them both
  orally and in writing, to a range of audiences
• T2 apply project management techniques to
  programme of work
• T3 organise and analyse data
• T4 act ethically as a researcher and computing
  professional
• T5 manage their own learning, taking
  responsibility for continuing professional
  development.

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M1 Introduction to Capability Maturity Model
Integration M2 Distributed Systems M3 Mobile and
Wireless Networks M4 Formal Design and
Verification of Software M5 Databases for
Structured and Semi-Structured Data M6 Research
Methods M7 Dissertation M8 Software Project
Management and Quality Control M9 Interactive
Voice Technologies M10 Autonomic Computing and
Communications M11 Intelligent Systems M12
Document Engineering
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Discussion

• Is there is a need for a dedicated HI course in
  and engineering department/school?
• What level of course is appropriate?
• What would be the core curriculum?
• What mode of delivery is appropriate?
• Is collaboration across institutions feasible?
• What is the role of HI occupation?

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Health Informatics
Computing Science
Professional Certificate, Diploma
NHS National Occupational Standards for HI
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