NHS Faculty of Health Informatics: Masterclass –
Ten lessons on how to avoid expensive mistakes in e-health
Date:
Tuesday 3rd July 2007
Venue:
Town Hall, Oxford
Times: Registration: 10:00
Start: 10:30
Close: 15:00
Education, Training and Development
Programme
10.00
Registration and refreshments/networking opportunities
10.30
Introduction and welcome
Event Chair - Shelia Teasdale
Faculty Board
10.45
Overview of E-Health in Australia
Professor Michael Kidd
11.30
Workshop: The ten lessons on how to
avoid expensive mistakes in e-health
Professor Michael Kidd
12.00
Lunch
13.00
Workshop: How to apply the expensive
lessons learned by others in developing
and implementing your own e-health
initiatives
Question and answer session
Professor Michael Kidd
Closing remarks from the Chair and
close
Event Chair - Shelia Teasdale
Faculty Board
14.30
14.50
Professor Michael Kidd
Background
Faculty of Health Informatics
The NHS Faculty of Health Informatics is continuing to develop a national community of practice for 360+
professionals in health informatics learning and development, applied research and professional services.
Membership of the Faculty gives individuals the opportunity to acquire new skills and knowledge and have
access to specialists and academics providing up to date and leading edge thinking in Health Informatics. Help
shape the work and future direction of the Faculty and its learning and research programmes at
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Workshop Background
Following on from the Masterclass in December 2006 on how the introduction of telehealth will impact on the UK,
we now offer delegates a perspective of e-health from Australia and ten lessons on ways to avoid repeating the
expensive mistakes of the past in the development and implementation of e-health initiatives. At this
Masterclass Professor Michael Kidd will lead participants through ten principles developed as a result of his
many years of international experience as the leader and evaluator of major e-health programs. Comparisons
will be made between e-health developments in Australia and Great Britain, especially in the context of general
practice.
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We aim to take a different approach on this workshop, and are looking for delegates to bring brief presentations
of your own current e-health initiatives for sharing with the other participants at the Masterclass. Michael will
discuss them with you, and the group, offering his own experience in resolving any problems you have with them
through testing how well you meet the ten lessons.
Masterclass Event Aims and Objectives
The master class will cover:
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Reflections about successful implementation of e-health systems
An update on the development of e-health in Australia and globally in primary care
The opportunity to test the ten lessons on your own e-health developments
Discussion on the roles of leaders in ensuring that e-health delivers maximal clinical value.
The workshop will be highly interactive and offer delegates the chance to question Professor Kidd on his
experiences and insights.
Education, Training and Development
Biography of Speaker
Michael Kidd is Professor of General Practice and Head of the Department of General Practice at The University
of Sydney and works as a general practitioner in an inner-city practice in Sydney with a special interest in the
management of HIV and hepatitis C. He was President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
from 2002-2006. He is currently Visiting Professor at the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine.
He has 20 years experience as an internationally-recognised researcher in e-health with a
particular focus on the use of information technology to improve the safety and quality of
health care delivery in general practice, and the development and evaluation of new forms
of distance medical education through the use of information technology. His recent
research includes the development and evaluation of an internet-based methodology for
reporting errors in primary care, evaluation of the use of information technology to deliver
appropriate evidence to clinicians at the point of care, and collaborative research with the
Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard University on how clinician use of computers can lead to
improvements in the safety and quality of health care.
He was inaugural chair of the Australian General Practice Computing Group and led the computerisation of
Australian general practice in the late 1990s. He is past chair of the Australian Government’s $122m
MediConnect Project on electronic prescribing and was a member of the Board of HealthConnect which led the
Australian Government’s national electronic health record developments. He is a member of the Australian
Health Information Council which provides advice to Australian Health Ministers on long term directions and
national strategic reform issues for information management and technology in health.
At an international level he convenes the Informatics Working Party of the World Organisation of Family Doctors
and co-chairs the Primary Care Working Group of the International Medical Informatics Association. He is coeditor of the textbook "Health Informatics: an Overview" and wrote the chapter on “Computers in the
Consultation” in the Oxford Textbook of Primary Care Medicine. He is a sought after speaker on e-health at
conferences around the world and has been a consultant on e-health developments to governments in Ireland
and New Zealand and has experience of e-health developments in over 30 nations.
Who should attend?
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All faculty members
Anyone with an interest in avoiding expensive mistakes in e-health or with an interest in primary care
applications and/or international e-health developments
People interested in testing their models against Michael’s ten point plan
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Booking Terms & Conditions
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Education, Training and Development
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A maximum number of 50 places are available and will be limited for each organisation and allocated on a
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This event has no other cost to eligible NHS staff/employees of NHS and contractor organisations
This event is open to employees of NHS, contractor organisations and members of the NHS Faculty of HI.
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£250 cancellation fee.
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