Clinical informatics remains underappreciated among medical students in part due to a lack of integration into undergraduate medical education (UME). New developments in the study and practice of medicine are traditionally introduced via formal integration into undergraduate medical curricula. While this path has certain advantages, curricular changes are slow and may fail to showcase the breadth of clinical informatics activities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To develop a comprehensive and current description of what health informatics (HI) professionals do and what they need to know.
Materials And Methods: Six independent subject-matter expert panels drawn from and representative of HI professionals contributed to the development of a draft HI delineation of practice (DoP). An online survey was distributed to HI professionals to validate the draft DoP.
Background: Mental health services aim to provide recovery-focused care and facilitate coproduced care planning. In practice, mental health providers can find supporting individualized coproduced care with service users difficult while balancing administrative and performance demands. To help meet this aim and using principles of coproduction, an innovative mobile digital care pathway tool (CPT) was developed to be used on a tablet computer and piloted in the West of England.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMental health policies advocate service user participation in care planning. However, service users often feel they're not fully involved and direct access to users' own electronic care plans in the community can be an obstacle. To address this, an electronic care pathway tool (CPT) was co-designed by service users, staff and software developers, to facilitate co-production of care and crisis plans.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this paper, we develop a surrogate modelling approach for capturing the output field (e.g. the pressure head) from groundwater flow models involving a stochastic input field (e.
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