Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Section 1 Core knowledge
- Section 2 Core skills
- Section 3 Important bodies
- Section 4 Information, evidence and research
- Chapter 24 Information management
- Chapter 25 Evidence-based medicine
- Chapter 26 Research funding in the NHS
- Chapter 27 Research governance
- Section 5 Money
- Section 6 NHS structures
- Section 7 Operations
- Section 8 Safety and quality
- Section 9 Staff issues
- Index
Chapter 24 - Information management
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Section 1 Core knowledge
- Section 2 Core skills
- Section 3 Important bodies
- Section 4 Information, evidence and research
- Chapter 24 Information management
- Chapter 25 Evidence-based medicine
- Chapter 26 Research funding in the NHS
- Chapter 27 Research governance
- Section 5 Money
- Section 6 NHS structures
- Section 7 Operations
- Section 8 Safety and quality
- Section 9 Staff issues
- Index
Summary
Advances in information management and technology have made, and will continue to make, radical changes to the way healthcare is delivered. To work effectively in the NHS, a doctor must have an adequate and appropriate understanding of this area. This includes not only how to manage data and use technology, but also knowledge of its place in the organization and planning of the NHS. Doctors also need access to high quality information. This need has been recognized by independent inquiries and doctors' professional and defence organizations.
A modern IT infrastructure is vital to improving patient safety and enabling choice, helping clinicians to work efficiently and allowing them access to patient information promptly and securely. In 2002, Sir Derek Wanless, in his report on the English NHS, recommended doubling the IT budget and instituting a national programme for IT. He warned that without this ‘the health service will find it increasingly difficult to deliver the efficient, high-quality service which the public will demand’.
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- Management Essentials for Doctors , pp. 69 - 72Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011