NE Topic 4: The clinical informatics skills and roles that we need; also the support, education, and professional development of them

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@KarenDay and @robyn.whittaker are leading this topic

I was thinking we can kick off with an ‘we don’t want to do this’ exercise with lists of skills from some articles I found. We can discuss what we do want do with the items that remain on the list, and how we see people building skills on a spectrum ranging from formal education skills through CPD and learning on the job.

Notes from CiLN meeting

  1. We endorsed that there are already robust competency frameworks for clinical informatics - don’t need to reinvent this- Group like Chia framework
  2. Levels of need e.g. undergraduate, grads and clinical clinical IT project leads
    Clinical Informatics Leaders and
    Exec Level
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Topics to discuss at CiLN meeting - chosen!
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Hi team.
This is a space I am interested in and working on in undergraduate medicine. I think this work will be broadly translatable across undergraduate health sciences.
Keen to be involved in what ever this looks like
Rebecca

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Well it isn’t medical school undergraduate stuff, but at ETIH 2019 several of us had a very productive (and quite exciting) gathering regarding the establishment of a New Zealand Digital Health Academy, modelled on the very successful NHS Digital Academy. The timing seems to be right for this on several fronts.

The others involved at present are @jon_herries, @KimMundell, @searnshaw, @KarenDay, @robyn.whittaker, @karenblake, @tamzin, @BeckyGeorge, and @RMcBeth. We would love to have you aboard too!

This is a markedly innovative approach to educating people doing digital health while they remain in post. It aims to equip them to engage constructively with senior management, run / manage projects effectively, and do digital health really well in their local context. Those doing it rave about it. I’ll shortly set up a survey and a sub-forum for people to ask recent graduates and current students what they think.

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Hi everyone

We have developed informatics guidelines for nurses entering practice. These are for educators to ensure their students are ready for clinical practice and the technologically enhanced environments that they will be practising in.
These were published and launched at HINZ last year and are freely available at:

Next steps will be shared soon

Thanks
Emma Collins and Michelle Honey

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Hi everyone! Be keen to know more about this. Just started on a TrendCare role, first health informatics job while doing pgdip in HIT. Seems like our team is in a haze at the moment on where we should belong as we are more guardians of data accuracy and users using the software correctly and etc. Some are saying we should be Safe Staffing Team as will be doing FTE calculations too!

Be interesting to see how the postgrad world develops to encourage more HIT enthusiasts of clinical backgrounds.

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I think the domain of digital health/health informatics has reached a level of maturity that we can look at career progression and training at various levels - from short professional courses to academic study(undergrad and postgrad, in the various clinical curriculums and other specilities) to fellowship of professional colleges such as ACHI. I see something like the NHS Digital Academy as being part of a wider range of training and educational options but maybe we need to look at the wider picture, identify the gaps in training/education and look at the best way to fill them. That said, I am very happy to look at the format of the NHS Digital Academy and see how something similar might serve NZ.

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