Chief Clinical Information Officer and a nurse?

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Chief Clinical Information Officer and a nurse?
Fiona Stephens Clinical Quality Director CCIO
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Chief Clinical Information Officer

• Clinical expertise to ensure patient outcomes are
  the focus
• Sufficient expertise to understand the
  possibilities and limitations of IT
• A grasp of how technology can be mobilised to
  provide solutions
• Good judgement and a hard-headed decision maker
• Understand whether the technology to improve
  patient care and drive efficiency exists
• In depth understanding of IG and data security
• Not a need for the nuts and bolts understanding
  of software.

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This is a journey from skeptic to convert

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The NHS information strategy

• every health care organisation to appoint a
  board-level chief clinical information officer,
  or equivalent, to be its local information
  champion.
• clinically-led information-led culture of
  health care developed
• information and informatics training and
  professional development, pre and
  post-registration

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The overriding problem with failed IT projects in
general, and particularly in clinical culture, is
lack of attention to the human elements of
changing behaviour among professionals
A strategy for engaging front line staff and
patients DH
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Clinical leadership

Clinical engagement and developing clinical
leadership are very much complementary to each
other. Without clinical leadership there can be
no effective leaders to clinically engage with
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What is Clinical Engagement?
Is it a tick box exercise in a project plan?
Or is it a path to transformation?
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Engaging grass root clinicians?
How often do they need more encouragement to
drink?
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A new landscape

• We have to share information
• People (we) access (and demand) information
  about anything and everything
• Multiple means of communication
• IG
• How safe are new technologies?
• Clinical content and content management
• Productive working
• We need clinical informatics leadership

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Why me

• To prove nurses are not slow to adopt and
  innovate
• To develop the skills in our workforce and meet
  clinicians and patients expectations
• Information governance is important so lets make
  it easier
• Patient safety is a clinical issue not an IT one
• To find out what is out there, and what needs to
  be!

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Why me

• Come at IT from a completely different angle
• Impact on current requirements and processes
• Ability to influence and act as an advocate
• What level of care are our patients getting?
• What can technology do to help improve that?

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Why me
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Mobile focus

• Different clinicians different needs
• Mobile workforce therefore mobile technology
• Safe secure easy to use
• Support clinician replace paper records
• NO DUPLICATION
• Make staff safer, not put at risk
• One size does not fit all from systems to
  devices

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Case scenario Community nurse

• Ruggedised lap top
• Dongle
• Sat nav and mobile phone
• Doppler
• Sphygmomanometer
• Bladder scanner
• Digital thermometer
• Not to mention
• Alcohol gel ( moisturiser)
• Gloves
• Sterile supplies, etc.

Supporting the clinician in the Community Should
there be an App for that Sean Brennan
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Case scenario Parcel delivery

• Place an order with a well known internet
  company
• Items selected from stock
• Wrapped and barcode attached (trigger)
• Parcel picked up from parcel pickup
• Parcel arrives at delivery network hub
• Parcel picked up by courier
• Parcel delivered to house and signed for (if
  needed)

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Using smart phone technology iNurse

Advanced Health Care
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So, why me

• Use of information and technology is here to
  stay
• Patient power through information
• Board level advocate
• Innovation
• Skills development
• Patient safety

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And finally
Challenging Frustrating Hard work
I love it!
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