CHIME Blog
Symposium on Using Information in Management Decision-Making
Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:12:43 +0000
On the 15th September UCL is hosting a symposium to explore how healthcare managers can make better use of information. We have confirmed presentations from Professor Sir Brian Jarman, Professor Terry Young, Dr James Mountford and other high profile thinkers and leaders from industry and the NHS as well as leading academics in informatics and [...]
Read more...New paper published: Does the inclusion of ‘professional development’ teaching improve medical students’ communication skills?
Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:42:04 +0000
MB BS courses have changed considerably in recent years. There has been a greater focus on professional development, cross-cutting skills beyond the traditional curriculum. It has yet to be established what is the best way of teaching the likes of communication skills. That is the background to a recent paper by Katherine Joekes, Lorraine Noble [...]
Read more...CHIME in the news
Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:34:19 +0000
Carl and Jeremy’s paper on open source approaches in health was covered by TechEye and some other blogs. Our BMJ paper on the ethnic attainment gap in academic performance in medicine attracted a certain amount of coverage, with the story being covered by the Press Association and GP. And a talk of mine on the [...]
Read more...Another big government computer programme, another damning report
Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:17:24 +0000
The Commons Public Accounts Committee released today a damning report of HM Revenue and Customs’ new National Insurance and PAYE Service (NPS) system. It describes huge backlogs and budget over-runs. The story is all too familiar, as Margaret Hodge, Chair of the Committee, acknowledged. Implementation proves slower than expected, problems with data quality… all of [...]
Read more...Recent and forthcoming CHIME publications
Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:39:37 +0000
To welcome in 2011, here’s a brief overview of some recent or forthcoming publications by CHIME staff. Taylor P, Potts H, Wilkinson L, Given-Wilson R (2010). Impact of CAD with full field digital mammography on workflow and cost. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6136, 1-8. Taylor P (2010). Modeling the impact of CAD on the [...]
Read more...UCL Centre for Health Informatics & Multiprofessional Education
CHIME was established in 1995, as a joint initiative of UCL and the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust. It undertakes research and delivers undergraduate and postgraduate education in information and quality management, to support clinical practice and to benefit communities - both patients and health care professionals - locally, nationally and globally.
CHIME offers flexible taught and research graduate study programmes. Our graduates are well regarded by employers, industry and academia.
Featured story
Patient Safety, Law Policy and Practice
Pippa Bark’s book, that she has co-edited with John Tingle, a lawyer from Nottingham, has just been published by Routledge. Patient safety is an issue which in recent years has grown to prominence in a number of countries’ political and health service agendas and the World Health Organisation has launched the World Alliance for Patient Safety. More...
CHIME News
David Ingram appointed Emeritus Professor of Health Informatics at UCL
Oct 28, 2011 15:16PM
UCL CHIME is pleased to announce the conferment upon David Ingram of the title Emeritus Professor of Health Informatics at UCL, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the University and to the discipline of health informatics.
Read more..."Patient Safety, Law Policy and Practice"
May 25, 2011 11:20AM
Pippa Bark’s book, that she has co-edited with John Tingle, a lawyer from Nottingham, has just been published by Routledge . (Link: Amazon )
Read more...Ethnicity and academic performance in medicine
Mar 14, 2011 15:17PM
UK trained doctors and medical students from minority ethnic groups tend to underperform academically compared with their white counterparts, according to a new study by UCL academics.
Read more...Uptake of flu vaccine among healthcare workers
Mar 14, 2011 15:14PM
Vaccination is an effective way to prevent flu and minimise the spread of an epidemic or a pandemic. However, uptake of vaccination is often poor, as a team at UCL including CHIME's Dr Henry Potts have previously described in a study of the 2009 swine flu pandemic ( Rubin, Potts & Michie, 2010, Health Tech Assessment, 14(34): 183-266 ).
Read more...Open Source, Open Standards, and Health Care Information Systems
Feb 21, 2011 11:26AM
Dr Carl Reynolds, who is currently studying for an MSc in Health Informatics at CHIME, and Prof. Jeremy Wyatt, who himself used to teach on the same MSc course, have co-written a paper just published in the Journal of Medical Informatics Research ( J Med Internet Res 2011;13(1):e24 ).
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