CHIME News http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news-viewer/rss Anthony J Peacock 2011-02-21T11:30:48Z "Patient Safety, Law Policy and Practice" Published in Paperback http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20130424a April 12 th  2013 witnessed a comparatively rare event in scholarly publishing, when  Patient Safety, Law Policy and Practice  was published in paperback by Routledge. Matthew W Darlison 2013-04-24T19:57:10Z BMJ Editorial: Caldicott 2 and Patient Data http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20130424 The British Medical Journal (BMJ) of April 24th 2013 includes an Editorial written by  Dr Paul Taylor , Reader in  Health Informatics at  UCL CHIME , discussing and summarising the new  Information Governance Review  known as "Caldicott 2", its background and implications. Matthew W Darlison 2013-04-24T15:52:43Z UCL Joins the European Connected Health Alliance http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20130108 UCL has, through CHIME, become a Partner in the European Connected Health Alliance , an initiative spanning government, healthcare, industry and academia that delivers leadership for the development of Connected and MHealth markets and practice across Europe and beyond. Matthew W Darlison 2013-01-08T15:17:25Z UCL CHIME is Early Contributor to New Health Informatics Online Resource http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20130104 One dark Thursday night in December saw Professor Dipak Kalra , Director of UCL CHIME , at home in front of a webcam, being interviewed online by American health informatician Tim Cook and taking live questions from around the world. Matthew W Darlison 2013-01-04T11:07:36Z Professor Dipak Kalra takes up Presidency of the EuroRec Institute http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20121129 Dipak Kalra , clinical professor of health informatics and Director of UCL CHIME , has taken up the position of President of the EuroRec Institute , an independent not-for-profit organisation that promotes the use of high quality Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems across Europe. Matthew W Darlison 2012-11-29T15:57:29Z 2012 European Summit on Trustworthy Reuse of Health Data – plenary sessions now available on YouTube http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20120831 In May 2012 the Director of UCL CHIME, Professor Dipak Kalra , joined other European and international academic, public health, industry, government and user representatives in Brussels to take forward the process of developing guidelines for trustworthy reuse of health data. Matthew W Darlison 2012-08-31T17:50:45Z David Ingram appointed Emeritus Professor of Health Informatics at UCL http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20111028a 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. Matthew W Darlison 2011-10-28T15:16:52Z "Patient Safety, Law Policy and Practice" http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20110525a Pippa Bark’s book, co-edited with John Tingle, a lawyer from Nottingham, has just been published by Routledge . (Link: Amazon ) Kate Howe 2011-05-25T11:20:02Z Ethnicity and academic performance in medicine http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20110309a 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. Anthony J Peacock Kate Howe 2011-03-14T15:17:57Z Uptake of flu vaccine among healthcare workers http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20110218b 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 ). Anthony J Peacock Kate Howe 2011-03-14T15:14:22Z Open Source, Open Standards, and Health Care Information Systems http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20110218a 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 ). Anthony J Peacock Kate Howe 2011-02-21T11:26:00Z howRU, a new short generic measure of health status http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20101203a A new paper in Informatics in Primary Care ( Evaluation of a new short generic measure of health status: howRU , 2010; 18:89-101) describes the development and testing of a new generic tool for measuring health-related quality of life. Anthony J Peacock Kate Howe 2011-02-21T11:26:55Z Dr Don E. Detmer honoured by American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20101116a Don E. Detmer, Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and Visiting Professor at UCL CHIME, has been awarded the 2010 Morris F. Collen Award by the American Medical Informatics Association in recognition of his longstanding efforts to advance the field of biomedical and health informatics.  Anthony J Peacock Kate Howe 2011-02-21T13:16:20Z Public 'reassured' by swine flu media coverage http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20100723a The swine flu (influenza A H1N1v) pandemic of 2009 created considerable media coverage and some degree of public anxiety. Until a vaccine was developed, behavioural strategies by the general public were the main defence against further spread, so it was important that the public were well-informed about the pandemic and what they could do. Much concern was expressed at the time about the media, and indeed the Government, possibly sensationalising what was happening. Kate Howe 2011-03-22T19:46:29Z Key NHS IT Programmes – UCL report http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20100617a With a new Government reviewing Connecting for Health (CfH) and health IT policy more generally, a major evaluation of the Summary Care Record and HealthSpace, two key systems that CfH is charged to deliver, comes at the right time. Kate Howe 2011-03-22T19:20:35Z UKHIT online - Computers and the Internet http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20100302a The latest issue of UK Health Informatics Today (UKHIT no 59, Winter 2009-10) is now available online. Kate Howe 2011-03-22T19:00:26Z Group membership and staff turnover affect outcomes in group CBT for persistent pain http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20100208a In a new paper in the journal Pain (published online, doi:10.1016/j.pain.2009.12.011), Amanda Williams (UCL Research Department for Clinical, Education and Health Psychology) and Henry Potts (CHIME) describe how contextual factors can affect patient outcome in the setting of a specialist treatment centre for persistent pain. Kate Howe 2011-03-14T16:29:10Z Electronic patient records are not a panacea http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20091215a Large-scale electronic patient record (EPR) programmes promise much but sometimes deliver little, according to a new study by researchers in CHIME and UCL's Department of Open Learning, that reviewed findings from hundreds of previous studies from all over the world. Kate Howe 2011-03-14T16:27:30Z Using computerised CBT to prevent mental health problems: a systematic review and a case study of Xanthis http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20091120a Amy McKeown has presented her work on using computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) preventatively at two international conferences recently. The work, done in collaboration with Dr Henry Potts, was based on her prize-winning MSc Health Informatics dissertation at CHIME. McKeown is now an honorary researcher in the department. Kate Howe 2011-03-14T16:13:59Z New Students Begin UCL Postgraduate Programme in Health Informatics http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20091005a The academic year 2009-10 began in earnest on Friday October 2nd when no less than thirty new students on the health informatics programme arrived at UCL 's Archway Campus to begin their induction programme. Anthony J Peacock Kate Howe 2011-03-14T15:30:13Z CHIME researcher contributes to new book http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chime/news/chime-news/news-20090915a A new book, Intelligent Engineering Systems and Computational Cybernetics , has been published. The book is a collection of recent research materials on very diverse topics in artificial intelligence, including medical applications. Anthony J Peacock Kate Howe 2011-03-14T15:22:52Z