Healthcare computing at the University of Portsmouth Dr Jim Briggs Last updated: 24th November 2004

2 Group members Permanent staff: –Jim Briggs –Tineke Fitch –Roger Beresford & Gordon Early –Brett Stevens* & Carl Adams* Administrative staff –Angela Muscat (TEIS administrator) Technical staff –Many at various times –Most recently Daniel Yang Fixed-term staff –Dave Prytherch (seconded from PHT) –Dick Curry –Past: Jeff Sirl, Stephanie Williams Research students –Past: Tineke & Bernie Garrett –Penny Ross –Jason Oakley (pt) –Suzanne Stokes * –Emily Bennett * * shared with other groups

3 Activities Telemedicine and e- health Information Service Clinical outcomes Cancer care data ICT research initiative Imaging ISABEL evaluation Smart cards Mobile healthcare SIHI Teaching

4 Telemedicine and e-health Information Service (TEIS) Formerly National Database of Telemedicine Was funded by NHS Information Authority (until March 2004) Once again, need to find new funding

5 Spin-offs from TEIS Resource centre for NeLH –e-health Collaborate with: –UK e-health Association –Royal Society of Medicine Telemedicine Forum –Institute of Healthcare Management/ASSIST –Confederation of E-health Websites (CEW, pronounced "queue") Sponsored DTI-funded mission to South Korea, March 2001

6 Adverse clinical outcomes Can useful predictive information be gleaned from already existing data? Project funded by local NHS R&D fund + University funds Developed a new technique for comparing surgical performance; extending it to General Medicine Paper accepted by BritJSurgery; one in pipeline; front page of The Observer

7 Cancer care data Since 1998, trusts need to report data on cancer patients National Service Frameworks 150 items of data per patient 500,000 data items pa in Portsmouth alone Usability issues –Penny Ross working on it –Funding from charity

8 ICT initiative Department of Health’s Information and Communication Technologies Research Initiative Supporting management of the research programme Website and mailing list

9 Other projects Imaging (Jason Oakley) –Digital phantom for evaluating quality in radiographical systems and procedures ISABEL evaluation (Jim and Tineke Fitch) –Paediatric decision-support tool –Evaluate use and users Smart cards (Roger Beresford and Jim) Mobile healthcare (Carl Adams and Tineke)

10 Southern Institute for Health Informatics

11 SIHI Local and national organisations 6 conferences since July 1998 Last one on 1st October 2004 Next one next September (probably) Part of UK IHI –Academic Forum (part of the NHS National Information Partnership Board)

12 Teaching activities Wrapping up –MSc in Healthcare Information Systems –MSc in Healthcare Information Management Final year option on health informatics (Tineke) New MSc in e-Health?