Congratulations Tony, Like you I am a silent member of the mailing list must be an "Irish" thing. Good luck with the post.
Mary Sharp At 23:41 02/09/2008 +0100, you wrote: >Dear All, > >I am very honoured to be invited to take up this important role as Chair >of the Clinical Review Board within the openEHR Foundation. > >Please allow me to introduce myself and my interest in openEHRs mission. >I would welcome your feedback and views as I explain below. > >- > >I qualified as a doctor in Dublin and now work as a Consultant in >Emergency Medicine based in Leeds, spending half of my week working with >NHS Connecting for Health which is delivering the National Programme for >IT here in England. > >For many years I have been well aware that we as clinicians are very >dependent on effective information management. Indeed we must address >this challenge to firstly survive and then hopefully thrive as 21st >century healthcare pressures increase.. >As my work in Informatics has grown over the last years, I have >increasingly understood that these challenges are only a part of a wider >international struggle to change many health care systems in very >fundamental ways. >Much of my work within NHS Connecting for Health has been centred around >what I call a "Healthcare Change Challenge" involving people, process >and technology change. Indeed it was research in that area and the >potential offered by standards to support that change that helped me >come across openEHR. > >When I first came across openEHR I must admit it took me some time to >understand what it offered. Over a little time it became much clearer >and a "lightbulb" came on, as it appeared to offer a potential solution >to several of the "wicked problems" I had been struggling with for some >years. >It is a credit to the initial minds behind this work that openEHR has >provided, to me at least, a way to tackle the complex challenge that >informatics provides. The openEHR archetypes and templates offer many >obvious advantages and indeed I find the openEHR reference model with >its simple but clear relationship with key generic clinical processes a >key strength of openEHRs approach, which no other standard does so well.. > >We have been quietly using openEHR to develop clinical content models >(archetypes and templates) within the NHS for some time now, building up >a Clinical Content Service. This service aims to develop (for the first >time in the NHS) clinically driven, open standards based, reusable, >shareable, clinical content models. >In doing so we are trying to reduce duplication of effort, encourage >consistencies and standardisation of clinical records where appropriate, >though we have some way to go to see them used in action within vendor >EHR systems..something we continue to pursue... > >While it is a quiet start, I feel that it is only the beginning, as I >expect that vendors will increasingly appreciate the enormous potential >on offer, by providing more native support for openEHR than they >currently offer. In due course I also believe that, given the right >tools, that more ownership and control of health ICT development will >quite naturally end up in the hands of those who need it most, i.e. the >clinicians. > >- > >I must admit I have stayed silent on this mailing list until now, >watching the varied email exchanges on many parts of the openEHR work >that continue to develop, trying to learn more all the time. > >With that in mind I would like to ask this clinical group a single >question that I hope might provoke some useful feedback.. > > >Can I ask you (wherever you are and whatever your clinical challenges >are) what are the *top 5* things you would like to see the openEHR >foundation tackle to move us all in the right direction over the next >year/18months and better support your own challenges as a clinician? >That might be better communication, better means to get involved, better >tools etc etc...whatever you happen to think.. > > >I would like to collate your views, feed them back to the group and then > present them to the openEHR CRB and into the emerging openEHR >Foundation discussions on strategic direction, which as Professor Ingram >has outlined, have recently begun.. > >This is an important time for openEHR, as increasingly light is being >shone on it. I think it is also an exciting time, which we need to take >advantage of. > >I look forward to hearing from you either via this mailing list/ >directly to me if you prefer at tony.shannon at nhs.net > > >With kind regards, > > >Tony > > >Dr. Tony Shannon >Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals >Clinical Lead, Clinical Content Service, NHS Connecting for Health >Senior Research Fellow, University College London >+44.789.988 5068 tony.shannon at nhs.net > >Thomas Beale wrote: > > [this is a repost of an announcement made a week ago, for those on the > clinical list but not on the announce list] > > > > from Prof David Ingram, CHIME department, University College London: > > > > I am delighted to announce that Dr Tony Shannon has accepted an > > invitation, on behalf of the openEHR Foundation Board, to take over the > > chair of the Clinical Review Board. Tony has long experience and > > interest in clinical information management, as Clinical Lead for the > > Clinical Content Service of NHS Connecting for Health and as Consultant > > in Emergency Medicine at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. > > > > My UCL colleague, Dr Dipak Kalra, has been the founding chair of the CRB > > but felt it the right time to step down and make way for a new > > appointment, recognising, as we all do, that openEHR governance needs to > > spread beyond the founding members at UCL and Ocean Informatics. Dipak, > > Sam Heard and I remain as the active directors of the Foundation, but > > this, too, may well change quickly, in the period ahead, as we work to > > broaden the governance of the Foundation. Ideally, we feel that the > > Foundation needs to remain agile and inclusive in its work, while > > consolidating its relationships and accountability to users and > > international stakeholder organisations, keen to capitalise on its work. > > In this transition, we must try to avoid exchanging a crucible of > > innovation for a tanker full of treacle. > > > > Tony Shannon has an honorary appointment as senior research fellow at > > UCL and has been active clinically in building wider awareness of and > > engagement with the mission of openEHR, for several years. Along with > > Tim Cook, a member of the ARB, he has joined Sam, Dipak, Tom Beale and > > me in crucial new discussions about how to take the Foundation into its > > next stage of development and governance, as its work grows rapidly in > > international focus and importance. We have received a number of > > approaches for new partnerships and we will be taking these very > > seriously and opening discussions more widely within the international > > community, including at a session of the WoHIT conference in November, > > under the auspices of our collaborating partners in EuroRec. > > > > openEHR exists to champion the clinical ownership of the fundamental > > requirements for effective and useful electronic health records and to > > support the discipline, engagement and trust required to help them > > succeed. Central to its approach is shared and collaborative research, > > development and iterative evaluation, though real world implementations. > > > > > > > > * > > * > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openEHR-clinical mailing list > > openEHR-clinical at openehr.org > > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical > >*********************************************************************** >This message may contain confidential and privileged information. >If you are not the intended recipient you should not disclose, copy >or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in reliance >on its contents. To do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. >Please inform the sender that this message has gone astray before >deleting it. Thank you. > >2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the NHS. 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