ICT workshop for rural health services

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ICT workshop

On Thursday 14 August, Rural Health Branch and the Office of Information Systems held a workshop for rural health services on information and communications technology.

We arranged this forum to increase communication with rural health services on relevant developments in information and communications technology. 

The forum began with a plenary session on the national and Victorian health ICT agenda, and then broke into workshops on:

• contributing to the department's next health ICT strategy (with Peter Williams, Director Health Information Management and Technology)
• CEOs sharing their experience with implementing HealthSMART applications (with Ben Leigh, CEO Latrobe Community Health Service, Sue Clarke, CEO Bendigo Community Health Services and Leslie Bell, HR systems project manager, Austin Health)
• HealthSMART discussion - your opportunity to seek clarification on any questions you may have (with Fiona Wilson, Director, Office of Health Information Systems)
  

For further information email Martin Clifford or phone on (61 3) 9096 1526.

Optional Presentation

Joe McArdle on supporting safe non medical prescribing in the UK

Joe McArdle is Assistant Director of Commissioning & Education for NHS Northwest, the strategic body overseeing the regional NHS budget of £9.5 billion, for 24 primary care trusts, 29 acute trusts, one ambulance and one care trust, plus 11 mental health trusts. Joe is responsible for Nursing and Midwifery in a zonal region called Cheshire and Merseyside patch supporting post qualification learning. He will talk about:

1. The collaboration of nine Universities to deliver an e-learning curricula that has now been adopted England wide, with shared application and numeracy screening process and evaluation of impact of non medical prescribing.

2. The preparation of clinical organisations to assure their readiness to safely implement non medical prescribing and the unintended consequences of improvement in medicines management, implementation of the European working time directive both through clinical networks and best practice programs.

Date: Thursday 14 August
Time: 3-4pm (following the ICT forum afternoon tea)
Location: Telstra Dome, Limelight Room (Gate 4, Level D, adjacent to Endeavour Room. Directions above.)

To register for this additional seminar, please email Sue Leyland