-----Original Message----- From:Mike Andersson [mailto:mike.andersson@...] Sent:07 September 200508:57 To:Abdul Roudsari Subject: GP Perspective on NPfIT -
14 September Meeting
__________________________________________________________
The next meeting of the BCS Health Informatics (London
and South East) Specialist Group is on Wednesday 14 September in the Boardroom at Moorfields Eye Hospital from 6 to 8pm
with refreshments from 5:30. It
is open to all.
The theme of the meeting will be: The GP
perspective on the National Programme for IT (NPfIT)
The two speakers will be Dr Philip Posner and Dr Gillian Braunold both of whom
are practising GPs in London with considerable experience in GP computing and
NHS IT.
They will be addressing a range of topics including the new GP systems and the
choices available to GPs.
Dr Philip Posner is from the James Wigg Practice in KentishTown. This large
"paperless" general practice received NHS Beacon status for IT.
He is currently the managing partner, a vocational trainer and the IT
lead. He set up the Camden
user group for the EMIS GP software and was IT advisor to the Camden &
Islington Primary Care Group.
Dr Gillian Braunold is a general practitioner in Kilburn where she was a
longstanding vocational trainer. She was Chair of her local LMC for 14
years and has represented North and Central London on
the General Practitioner’s Committee (GPC) of the BMA for 6 years. She is
also performance assessor for the GMC. Since December 2004 she has been
the Joint National Clinical Lead for General Practice for Connecting for
Health.
Please note the venue details (space
is not available at the BCS London Offices)
There are less than 6 weeks to go until the 7th Southern
Institute for Health Informatics Conference, to be held at the University
of Portsmouth on Friday 30th September 2005.
As usual, we have a wide range of speakers representing local and
national points of view.
From "Connecting for Health" we have Jan Dowsett (National
Clinical Lead for Allied Health Professions) and Di Millen (Head of
Informatics).
From the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement (formerly the
Modernisation Agency) we have Hugh Rogers talking about making systems
(in the widest sense) more reliable.
The full list of speakers can be found on the website (URL
below).
The conference is aimed at healthcare professionals, senior managers and
system developers both within the NHS and in companies supplying products
and services to it. Others with interests in health informatics will also
find plenty to hear and talk about.
The cost of early registration (bookings made before 1st September) is
only £85 (with discounts for multiple attendees from the same
organisation), which includes lunch. Booking can be made online and we
now are able to accept credit card bookings.
Please bring this to the attention of any colleagues that may also be
interested. Apologies to anyone who receives multiple copies of this
message.
Dr Jim Briggs
Conference chairman
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Southern Institute for Health Informatics
Healthcare Computing Group, School of Computing, University of
Portsmouth
Burnaby Terrace, Portsmouth, PO1 3AE, UK
Tel: +44 (23) 9284 6438 (direct line) 6445 (secretary) 6402 (fax)
Email: Jim.Briggs@...
SIHI homepage -
http://www.disco.port.ac.uk/hcc/sihi/
http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=1386
"A study published in the open-access journal BMC Medical Informatics
and Decision Making has revealed that surgeons at a London hospital
whose pagers were replaced with PDAs combined with mobile phones
responded to calls more quickly, improving communication between
clinicians."
Registration is now open for the Southern Institute for
Health Informatics 7th Annual Conference
Friday 30th September 2005, Richmond Building, University of
Portsmouth
After six tremendously successful SIHI conferences, we are holding this
year's one in Portsmouth on Friday 30th September and we would like to
invite you to participate. The venue will be the Richmond Building, on
the main University of Portsmouth campus.
The theme for the conference is the contribution that Health Informatics
could and should make to the Improvement Agenda in the National Health
Service.
Speakers will include:
Jan Dowsett, National Clinical Lead for Allied Health Professions, NHS
Connection for Health
Hugh Rogers FRCS, Associate for Service Transformation, NHS Institute for
Innovation & Improvement
Di Millen, Head of Informatics, NHS Connecting for Health
Dr Glyn Hayes, President, UK Council for Health Informatics Professions
and Chair, BCS Health Informatics Forum
Sherrin Moss, Healthcare Markets Manager, BUPA
John Jeans, GE Healthcare
Ben Stanberry, Avienda Ltd
The conference is aimed at healthcare professionals, senior managers and
system developers both within the NHS and in companies supplying products
and services to it. Academics with research or teaching interests in the
above areas will also find plenty to hear and talk about.
The cost of early registration (bookings made before 1st September) is
only £85 (with discounts for multiple attendees from the same
organisation), which includes lunch.
We also have a number of "Infomart" places left. The Informat
is an informal information marketplace area, that allows vendors and
researchers a low cost method of meeting people and exchanging
information.
http://www.npsa.nhs.uk/site/media/documents/1246_PSO_Report_FINAL.pdf
Misidentification of patients is a theme that occurs in any analysis of
patient safety. The
NPSA has already released an alert on correct site surgery to address
one specific area of this
source of harm to patients. The NPSA is also working on other areas
which are related to
misidentification such as ensuring compliance with wristband wearing in
acute services and
reducing incidents of incompatible blood transfusions.
The NPSA believes that there is considerable scope in the NHS for
improving patient safety,
both through the development of fail-safe methods of manual
identification and checking and
through applying technologies such as barcodes, radio frequency
identification and biometrics.
A search and analysis of the NRLS data to identify incidents of
mismatching showed that:
• 493 reports of mismatching were found from 45 reporting trusts;
• two-thirds of these reports were from medical, surgical and
diagnostic specialties in
acute hospitals;
• one in every eight incidents specifically related to issues with
identification of patients with
wristbands, and half of these were due to a missing wristband;
• of 32 incidents where the wristband was missing, three led to
patients having
unnecessary x-rays;
• two patients with missing wristbands received treatment intended for
another patient
(one a blood transfusion, one an antibiotic);
• four out of ten reports included discrepancies with information on
the wristbands or where
the information on the wristband differed from other relevant documents;
• of these 26 incidents, there were 22 occasions when the information
on patients’ wristbands
was incorrect and the staff involved would therefore not proceed with
the treatment until
they could confirm the patients’ identity;
• in eight of these cases, a patient had been transferred to theatre
before the error
was discovered.
The data have confirmed that there is a lack of a systematic and
standardised process to
support the identification of patients in a way that allows healthcare
staff to match them to
their care, treatment and records. This work will inform further advice
for the NHS scheduled
for autumn 2005, and additional work to produce a standard for patient
identification.
You might also be interested in: Maged N Kamel Boulos, Qiang Cai, Julian Padget, Gerard Rushton. Using Software Agents to Preserve Individual Health Data Confidentiality in Micro-scale Geographical Analyses. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Accepted on 21/6/2005 - in press (to appear very soon under the 'Articles in Press' section at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15320464 ).
All,
This is the final call for papers for the HDL 2005: the 3rd Health Digital Libraries Workshop 2005 to be held in conjunction with ECDL 2005: 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries on 22nd September 2005 in Vienna, Austria.
The event is supported by the UK Health Informatics Society.
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Olive Goddard <olive.goddard@...>
> Date: 29 June 2005 09:09:37 BST
> To: CEBM-MEMBERS@...
> Subject: Re: Advert
> Reply-To: Olive Goddard <olive.goddard@...>
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> Dear Colleagues,
>
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> University of Birmingham
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The Society is a supporting partner for this event (5-6 July in
London)
Jonathan Kay (member of UKHiS) Executive will be speaking
UKHiS members are entitled to a 20% discount to your members - to
obtain the discount, call directly quoting booking reference UKHiS.
Please could you could circulate these details in your organisation
and through your various networks. If you do attend, perhaps you
could write a report for the newsletter
The Health & Social Care Exchange
5-6 July 2005, Thistle Marble Arch, London, UK
Delivering Effective Real Time Care
The Health & Social Care Exchange explores the
possibilities of advanced health technologies to enhance all parts of the
business through reduction of medical error, enhancement of patient care
whilst still meeting required targets.
The key issues that will be explored throughout the two days
include:
* Developing a joined-up, patient centric NHS through IT
Integration and multi-organisational interoperability
* Delivering efficient point of care by positioning mobility in the
forefront of technology plans
* Implementing a change management system that will empower staff
and ensure successful deployment of new technology
To view more information please visit
www.hsc-exchange.com
or call us on +44 (0)20 7368 9583
The Society is a supporting partner for this event (5-6 July in
London)
Jonathan Kay (member of UKHiS) Executive will be speaking
UKHiS members are entitled to a 20% discount to your members - to
obtain the discount, call directly quoting booking reference UKHiS.
Please could you could circulate these details in your organisation
and through your various networks. If you do attend, perhaps you
could write a report for the newsletter
The Health & Social Care Exchange
5-6 July 2005, Thistle Marble Arch, London, UK
Delivering Effective Real Time Care
The Health & Social Care Exchange explores the
possibilities of advanced health technologies to enhance all parts of the
business through reduction of medical error, enhancement of patient care
whilst still meeting required targets.
The key issues that will be explored throughout the two days
include:
* Developing a joined-up, patient centric NHS through IT
Integration and multi-organisational interoperability
* Delivering efficient point of care by positioning mobility in the
forefront of technology plans
* Implementing a change management system that will empower staff
and ensure successful deployment of new technology
To view more information please visit
www.hsc-exchange.com
or call us on +44 (0)20 7368 9583
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Schleyer, Titus" <titus@...>
> Date: 22 June 2005 16:51:25 BST
> To: "John Holmes" <jholmes@...>, <cimino@...>,
> <friedmc1@...>
> Cc: tpt1@..., "Pham, Thomas" <tdp4@...>,
> jeannie@..., pedro@..., "Dugan, Colleen"
> <cod3@...>, humberto@..., heiko@...,
> ed-wg@...
> Subject: [ed-wg] Informatics competencies in medical education
>
> Hi,
>
> Just FYI: In 2002, Germany began requiring informatics competencies as
> a
> precondition for licensing physicians in Germany. A paper about
> operationalizing these competencies in medical school curricula just
> appeared in the journal "GMS Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und
> Epidemiology," which is published by the GMDS (German equivalent to the
> AMIA).
>
> See http://www.egms.de/en/journals/mibe/2005-1/mibe000005.shtml.
>
> Thanks
>
> Titus
>
> --
> Titus Schleyer, DMD, PhD
> Assoc. Professor and Director, Center for Dental Informatics
> School of Dental Medicine
> University of Pittsburgh
> 3501 Terrace Street
> Pittsburgh, PA 15261
> Phone: (412) 648-8886
> Fax: (412) 648-9960
> E-mail: titus@...
> http://di.dental.pitt.edu/
>
> _______________________________________________
> ed-wg maillist - ed-wg@...
> http://mailman.amia.org/mailman/listinfo/ed-wg
Hi All
Please could you circulate the attached to all your contacts and post on the
relevant message boards for the intake in October. High and low res versions
are attached. Please could you notify the current students and ask them to
forward details to their colleagues.
Thanks very much for your help,
Emily
Emily Brown
Marketing Co-ordinator
School for Health
University of Bath, UK
Tel: (44) 01225 383860
Email: e.brown@...
Web: http://www.bath.ac.uk/health
New Professional Doctorate in Health, commencing Sep 2005, applications now
online: http://www.bath.ac.uk/health/programmes/doctorates
PROGRAMME OF SPEAKERS
AIME 2005 Ontology Engineering Workshop
===================================================
Supported by the EU funded SemanticMining Network of Excellence
We are pleased to announce the draft programme of presentations in the
upcoming biomedical ontology engineering workshop. Full details of the
programme, and any revisions, may be viewed at
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig/projects/current/semanticmining/workshop
Short abstracts of each presentation can also be viewed at this site.
09:30 Extending the Use of Anatomy Ontologies for Cross-Species Data
Integration
Albert Burger, Stuart Aitken, Gus Ferguson et al.
Heriot-Watt University, The University of Edinburgh.
09:50 Transforming Biomedical Terminology Content between OWL and
Traditional Representational Forms: Early Experiences and Issues
Faced
Kaustubh Supekar, Harold Solbrig
Stanford University & Mayo Clinic
10:20 Ontology and terminology in biomedicine : the non dissociable twin
approach for quality in clinical terminology
Jean-Marie Rodrigues et al
University of Saint Etienne
10:40 PLENARY - QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION
11:20 Challenges in Interfacing Terminologies and Information Models:
A case study of SNOMED and HL7
Alan Rector, Jeremy Rogers
University of Manchester
11:40 OntoSearch: Retrieval and Reuse of Ontologies
Edward Thomas, Yi Zhang, Derek Sleeman et al.
University of Aberdeen
12:00 PLENARY - QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION
14:00 Panel: Beyond the hype - what I wish I'd known about ontology
engineering before I started
Panellists: Alan Rector, John Fox, Jean-Marie Rodrigues
15:50 OWL Classification Testing Platform
Matthew Horridge, Nick Drummon
University of Manchester
16:30 CLOSE
Key Information
============
Organisers: Jeremy Rogers, Alan Rector, Robert Stevens
Workshop Website:
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig/projects/current/semanticmining/workshop/
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
Date: Sunday July 24th 2005
Main Conference and Registration: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/aime05/
END
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Mary Ellen Doran" <maryellen@...>
> Date: 16 June 2005 14:54:16 BST
> To: jonathan.kay@...
> Subject: Health IT Training for Professionals
> Reply-To: maryellen@...
>
> AMIA 10x10 at OHSU
>
> The AMIA 10x10 program aimes to realize the goal of training 10,000
> health care professionlas in applied health and medical informatics by
> the year 2010. This training will be conducted in a wide range of
> settings across the United states. AMIA 10x10 Web site:
> http://www.amia.org/10x10
>
>
> The first offering of 10x10 is a partnership with Oregon Health &
> Science University (OHSU). AMIA 10x10 at OHSU current course will
> consist of 12-weeks of on-line training culminating in an intensive
> in-person 2-day session. (One full day of AMIA 2005 Tutorials, and one
> day final project work and networking with classmates and leaders in
> the field)The Web-based portion of the course will be provided through
> lectures, interactive discussions, and self-assessment tests. The
> in-person sessions will bring together attendees to integrate the
> material, allow presentation of course projects, and meet leaders in
> the field as well as other students.
>
> Topics covered in the program:
> • Overview of Discipline and its History
> • Biomedical Computing
> • Electronic Health Records and Health Information Exchange
> • Decision Support: Evolution and Current Approaches
> • Standards: Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security
> • Evidence-based Medicine and Medical Decision-making
> • Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries
> • Bioinformatics
> • Imaging Informatics and Telemedicine
> • Consumer Health, Nursing, and Public Health Informatics
> • Organization and Management Issues in Informatics
> • Career and Professional Development
>
> The tuition for this program is $2,000. The tuition covers both the
> on-line and in-person sessions. Additionally, 10x10 students will
> receive a one-year membership in AMIA.
>
> Deadline to sign up for the current offering is July 6, 2005
>
> Complete course information available at: http://www.amia.org/10x10
>
>
>
>
>
Colleagues
This is to let you know that we will not be publishing a spring issue of
the newsletter. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the issue editor has been
unable to make the deadline. The next issue will come out late summer.
best wishes
Jeannette
www.rsm.ac.uk/telemedicine
Preliminary programme
9.00 am Registration
Chair: Professor Frances Mair
President, Telemedicine & eHealth Forum
10.00 am Introduction
10.10 am Overview
Richard Smith
Managing Director Evercare UK and former editor of the BMJ
10.35 am The view from Primary Care
Dr David Colin-Thomé
National Clinical Director for Primary Care
11.00 am The role of eHealth NPfIT
Beverley Castleton
Managing Director Evercare UK and former editor of the BMJ
11.30 am Coffee
12.00 pm Making choices - Implications of the White Paper: Choosing
health
Paul Johnson
12.30 pm The Surrey / Sussex approach
Julia Ross
Programme Director, Transforming Chronic Care Programme
1.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm Telecare and the preventative technology grant
Rachel Denton
Care Services Improvement Partnership
2.20 pm A collaborative partnership for longer term conditions in Newham
Speaker to be confirmed
2.40 pm Monitoring in residential homes
Chorley Wood Surgery
3.00 pm Patient care monitoring
John Bibby
3.20 pm Home support to patients and relatives
Frank Miskelly
Charing Cross Hospital, London
3.40 pm Social care in West Lothian
Speaker to be confirmed
4.00 pm Chronic wound care using shared electronic records
Simon Dodds
Summing up
Professor Frances Mair
President, Telemedicine & eHealth Forum
CPD applied for
RSM contact:
Helen Jinks
Academic Department, Royal Society of Medicine,
1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE
Tel: (+44) (0) 20 7290 3943 Fax: (+44) (0) 20 7290 2989
Email: telemedicine@... REGISTRATION INFORMATION
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PLEASE COMPLETE BOTH SIDES OF THIS FORM
Friday 30th September 2005, Richmond Building, University of
Portsmouth
After six tremendously successful SIHI conferences, we are holding this
year's one in Portsmouth on Friday 30th September and we would like to
invite you to participate.
The theme for the conference is the contribution that Health Informatics
could and should make to the Improvement Agenda in the National Health
Service.
The conference will consist of a number of keynote speakers and other
oral presentations. In addition, the "Infomart", an informal
information marketplace area, will allow vendors and researchers to set
out a stall to meet people and exchange information.
If you would be interested in attending or participating in any way,
please email us at SIHI@..., write to us at the address below or
telephone us on 023 9284 6445.
** FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS **
AIME 2005 Ontology Engineering Workshop
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: May 31st 2005
===================================================
Supported by the EU funded SemanticMining Network of Excellence
Key Information
============
Organisers: Jeremy Rogers, Alan Rector, Robert Stevens
Web: www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig/projects/current/semanticmining/workshop/
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
Date: Sunday July 24th 2005
Main Conference: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/aime05/
General Information
===============
Medicine has a long tradition of attempting to codify its terminology. The
London Bills of Mortality, compiled weekly from the 1680s through to the
1830s, categorised the cause of all reported deaths in London, with the goal
of monitoring disease prevalence trends generally and outbreaks of plague in
particular. They are recognised as the forerunner of more modern controlled
terminologies and coding systems for epidemiological monitoring such as the
International Classification of Disease (ICD).
Codified medical data is increasingly being put to uses beyond epidemiology,
including financial billing, resource management and (more recently) as the
input to software supporting or directing clinical care. However,
traditional clinical terminologies like ICD are insufficient to support many
of these desired applications . Similarly, the rapid growth of data in the
post-genomic era of biology has seen a concomitant need to share
understanding about those data.
In order to provide the necessary functionality, biomedical terminologies
are increasingly being re-engineered as ontologies such as OpenGALEN , The
Digital Anatomist and SNOMED-CT, The Gene Ontology, Open Biomedical
Ontologies.
This re-engineering is being catalysed and enabled by a very new
technology - description logics - arising out of the knowledge
representation community. More recently it has begun to be informed by much
older methodologies deriving from 2500 years of European philosophy.
However, whilst good logic and philosophy may be necessary to guarantee the
success of this re-engineering, they may not be sufficient.
This AIME 2005 workshop will bring together researchers across biomedical
informatics to discuss a range of other ontology engineering issues. Noting
that the two halves of the biomedical community are increasingly coming
together in the study of phenotype/genotype correlations, the workshop will
consider the extent to which common ontology engineering solutions are
required.
Submissions
==========
This workshop considers issues in biomedical ontology engineering other than
those relating to description logic or philosophy. These issues include but
are not limited to sociological, cognitive and commercial barriers to the
enterprise. Participants are invited from both the medical and
bioinformatics ontology engineering communities.
We invite submissions describing experiences, tools or methodologies in the
following or related areas (topics prefixed with an asterisk are
particularly encouraged):
CONSTRUCTING ONTOLOGIES
* Quality assurance of ontologies
* Re-use of ontologies
* Ontology induction
* Consensus building
* Managing multiple authors
Metamodels & ontology metadata
Work prioritisation
Versioning and change logs
The local update penalty
Models of editorial control
Funding, publishing and licensing
INTERFACING ONTOLOGIES
*..with information models
..with information extraction
..with natural language generation
DELIVERING ONTOLOGIES
* End-user interfaces
* Inter-rater variability
Lexical annotation quality
End-user training
Intermediate representations
Submission Instructions
==================
Submissions should be in the form of abstracts up to 2 page in length and
should use the standard MS-Word template available from
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig/projects/current/semanticmining/workshop/template.do\
t
Alternatively please submit a simple ASCII text file. LaTeX and Acrobat are
strongly discouraged.
If you wish to discuss possible submissions please feel free to send
questions to the organisers.
Successful submissions will be invited to give presentations of between 15
and 30 minutes. We will also accept "News and Views" talks, describing the
current state of existing projects. These presentations will be of up to 15
minutes in length.
Submissions should be emailed to jeremy.e.rogers@.... We will
normally acknowledge within a (working) day or two. If you don't receive
this, please mail the organisers again!
The workshop is an informal meeting. Papers are reviewed by the programme
committee. All accepted papers will be published by the organisers on their
web site and in the main programme booklet. By submitting your paper, you
consent to this publication.
Authors will be informed of acceptance within a few days of the submission
deadline. (Approx 10th June 2005).
Registration
=========
Registration is via the main conference only
(http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/aime05/registration.shtml).
The British Computer Society Nursing Specialist Group has organised an
Open meeting with Heather Tierney-Moore, Nursing Clinical lead for the
NPfIT
Date: Tuesday 14th June 2005
Venue: Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel 130 Tottenham Court Road,
London W1P 9HP
Format
· 5.30 - 6.00 Registration and refreshments
· 6.00 - 6.45 Heather Tierney Moore - The role of a Clinical
Lead
· 6.45 - 7.30 Question and answer session
· 7.30 Close
For further Information
Richard Hayward, Chair BCS Nursing Specialist Group, Tel: 01227
782240
Email: HYPERLINK "mailto:rjh7@..." rjh7@...
Entry is free but places are limited. Please confirm your attendance
with:
Sue Tueton, BCS HQ, 1 Sanford Street, Swindon, Wiltshire SN1 1HJ Tel:
01793 417417
Email: HYPERLINK "mailto:STueton@..." STueton@...
Biomedical Informatics Group School of Computer Science University of Manchester
Closing Date for Applications: June 6th 2005
EPS/116/05 CLINICAL RESEARCH FELLOW(S) EPS/117/05 eSCIENCE / GRID DEVELOPER/ARCHITECT(S)
Clinical research fellows and E-Science Grid developer / architects are required for the CLEF-Services project. Up to three posts are available of which at least one will be clinical and one technical.
Manchester is a leading (5*) development centre for E-Research and E-Science, Health Informatics, knowledge representation, ontologies and tools. The successful applicants will join a growing research and development team focused on clinical systems as part of a large research team on E-Science, Grids, Web Services, the Semantic Web, and related technologies. We are seeking a balance of skills to extend and develop that team.
CLEF (2002 -2005) and CLEF-Services (2005 -2007) are two of the flagship E-Research projects funded by the Medical Research Council as part of the UK E-Science Programme.
CLEF seeks to build on Semantic Web/Grid technologies to develop a safe, generic, high quality and interoperable information repository, derived from operational Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) systems. It aims to make these facilities available in user-friendly environments that support both clinical care and biomedical research, meeting the needs of patients, clinical professionals, biomedical scientists and clinical researchers. CLEF is also developing privacy and confidentiality policies and software to make such work ethically acceptable. CLEF focuses primarily on cancer, but is aiming for a generic set of tools that may be applied across all clinical specialties. The project will interact closely with a second MRC funded E-Science project in Manchester, PsyGrid, which is developing complementary facilities in mental health research and which includes a strong statistical and analytical component on which CLEF will draw.
Manchester's key roles are: a) to develop the CLEF "chronicle" - our representation of our best understanding of the patient from the combination of the EHR and information extracted automatically from reports and letters; b) to develop the CLEF Workbench, a web portal framework for use by clinical researchers to access and analyse a large number of chronicles and records.
The project include leading research teams from universities across the UK. The Universities of Sheffield and Brighton work mainly on language engineering - development of information extraction from text and the use of language generation in user interfaces respectively. UCL works primarily on the development Electronic Health Records and the CLEF information repository, and has a long established link with standards organizations and the OpenEHRfoundation . The University of Manchester work includes the development of web-services/Grid enabled services building on the foundation established by the myGrid project. It will develop the framework for the secure clinical researchers' workbench that will act as a web-services/Grid enabled framework to provide one point of access to clinical research and analytical services.
The work involves a multidisciplinary team and collaboration with partners throughout Europe and beyond. The successful candidates will need to be happy working closely with other developers and be able to respond quickly to users of the software who come from different background. Opportunities for training and to register for a further degree if appropriate are available. The project runs formally until the end of 2007 and will be seeking longer term funding.
All posts are for up to 2 years in the first instance. Salary will be in the range: up to £27,483 to £40,053 for clinical fellow(s) (if eligible for clinical scales) and £21,640 to £35,883 per annum for the technical post(s).
Potential applicants are encouraged to get in touch and discuss the posts, or visit informally. Informal enquiries may be made in the first instance to Dr. Amanda Hughes Tel: +44 (0)161 275 1128; Fax: +44 (0)161 275 5145; email: amanda.hughes@...
Application forms are available here or from http://www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies/research.html or by post from the Office of the Director of Personnel, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL tel: +44 (0)161 275 2028; fax: +44 (0)161 275 2471; Minicom (for the hearing impaired): +44 (0)161 275 7889; e-mail: Eps-hr@... .
Additional information for applicants from outside the UK
The University welcomes applicants from abroad.
Candidates from within the EU do not need work permits. Candidates from outside the EU do require work permits, but the Department will help with arrangements and has rarely experienced difficulties over candidates appointed in open competition.
AS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER THE UNIVERSITY WELCOMES APPLICATIONS FROM SUITABLY QUALIFIED PEOPLE FROM ALL SECTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY REGARDLESS OF RACE, RELIGION, GENDER OR DISABILITY.
Person Specification: Clinical Fellow(s)
Overview: Clinical trained in medicine or an allied discipline, and with knowledge of health informatics, this person will design and develop clinical knowledge representations, metadata, and workstations
Essential
Have a clinical qualification in medicine or an allied discipline.
Solid understanding of clinical and pathological processes
The analytic ability to represent this understanding systematically
Understanding of current genetic and post genome clinical research, preferably in the realm of Cancer.
Willingness to work flexibly in a multidisciplinary team in which roles may evolve, tasks may be changed, and collaborate with other remote teams that may require travel.
The ability to acquire new skills quickly
Good communication and presentation skills
Desirable
Have a post graduate qualification and/or experience in health informatics or a related area of information/computing development.
Experience in writing academic papers and developing research proposals
Software skills an advantage
Person Specification: Developer(s)
Overview: A graduate/postgraduate to develop grid-enabled software services for medical knowledge representation and secure clinical research web portals.
Essential
Possess a graduate or (preferably) postgraduate degree in computer science or relevant area.
Advanced understanding of object-oriented programming and strong skills in software engineering, preferably in JAVA
Experience of all stages of software application development, from requirements analysis, through design, coding, testing and documentation
Willingness to work flexibly in a multidisciplinary team in which roles may evolve, tasks may be changed, and collaborate with other remote teams that may require travel.
Ability to work in a rapid prototyping and/or experimental environment.
Desirable
Experience in developing web services and/or grid-enabled software applications is highly desirable.
Experience in developing software applications that involve the integration or development of web portals
Experience of HCI and/or Knowledge Representation techniques an advantage.
Biomedical knowledge is an advantage - most of the content will be biomedical and understanding the content will help.
Experience in writing academic papers and developing research proposals
As part of the College Quincentenary celebrations, the Faculty of Health Informatics will be holding a one day symposium on Tuesday 28 June 2005 (from 9:30am to 5pm). This occasion will provide attendees with the opportunity to hear the latest information about NHS IT programmes in England and Scotland and to hear about healthcare informatics research and education activities in collaboration with the University of Bath. Details of the draft programme will be made available in the near future. A discounted registration fee is available to DMI/MSc students, graduates and tutors. You can register for the symposium at http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/courses/Default.aspx?CMD=BK&DIARYID=211.
This event provides a welcome opportunity to involve and pay tribute to everyone involved in our courses. We would welcome your participation and hope to see you here soon.
All the best,
Tracy
Tracy Noden
Administrator
Faculty of Health Informatics
The RoyalCollege of Surgeons of Edinburgh
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This is the first call for papers for the HDL 2005: the 3rd Health Digital Libraries Workshop 2005 to be held in conjunction with ECDL 2005: 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries on 22nd September 2005 in Vienna, Austria.
The event is supported by the UK Health Informatics Society.
INTERESTED IN OBTAINING A GRADUATE QUALIFICATION IN HEALTH
INFORMATICS?
Come along to CHIME OPEN EVENING - 17th May 2005
CHIME will be hosting its fourth Open Evening on Tuesday May 17th.
The purpose of the event is to publicise our graduate programme in Health
Informatics. CHIME has been successfully running the programme since 1999
and we are now inviting applications for the 2005 intake. At the Open
Evening all stakeholders and potential students will have the opportunity
to find out how the programme is organised and taught.
The Health Informatics graduate programme is modular, and teaching is
scheduled over 2-3 days per month. CHIME also offers opportunities for
continuing education which allows students the possibility of studying
just one or two of the modules. The vast majority of our students are in
full-time employment in the NHS. There are scholarships
available.
This will be an informal event with food, drink, poster displays
and computer demonstrations. Students currently enrolled, as well as
CHIME staff and tutors, will be on hand to talk to visitors about the
programme.
If you are interested in attending, please contact Noshin Khan, CHIME
Courses Administrator - email: N.Khan@..., Tel: 020 7288
3487
Venue: Holborn Union Building (the Social Space in the Basement)
Archway Campus, Highgate Hill, London N19 5LW
Time: 6.00-8:00 pm
For more information about CHIME and our graduate programmes please visit
our website:
http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk