NeLH-PC Primary Care National electronic Library for Health

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NeLH-PCPrimary Care National electronic Library
for Health

• Simon de Lusignan
• Senior Lecturer
• Primary Care Informatics
• St Georges Hospital Medical School

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Primary Care Informatics

• http//www.gpinformatics.org
• RD interests
• Bringing information to the consulting room desk
• Data quality PCDQ Qualitative research
• Telemonitoring
• Evaluation

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NeLH-PC as a pilot of Information-centred KM

• Exemplars of what is possible.

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Aim

• Promote clinical governance in primary care
• through the provision of access to knowledge
  and knowhow.

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Theoretical framework

• Information centred knowledge management
• Access to key areas of explicit knowledge
• Links to know-how

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Theoretical framework (2)

• Information-centred knowledge managementKnowledge
  Explicit knowledge
• knowhow Technical element of
  tacit knowledge

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Development

• Use-spec based on questions that arose in
  primary care
• Works with the lowest common denominator of GP
  systems
• Intuitive
• Requires low levels of ICT expertise

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Questions that arise in primary care.

• Therapeutics
• 4Rs
• Directory information
• Health improvement agenda
• Access to librarian

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Final product

• Simple hierarchical navigation
• Full electronic indexing
• Meta-evidence EBM search
• Personalisation My NeLH-PC
• Summaries of key papers for primary care
• Key know-how for leaders in primary care

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NeLH-PC Usage

• Half-million hits per month
• Commonest addresses
• .nhs.uk
• .ac.uk
• Busiest days
• Tues, Wed,Thurs
• Busiest hours
• UK Working day

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Summary

• Development requires collaboration
• If more learning is to take place more
  interaction is needed!
• Information provision is only the first step!

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The End

• http//www.nelh-pc.nhs.uk
• Kpritcha_at_sghms.ac.uk