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As the biggest single professional group in the NHS, nurses, midwives and health visitors often understand better than anybody how information really flows through a hospital or community. If IT technicians design new electronic systems without knowing and understanding their needs, there is a big chance that the technology will not work as well as it could.
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The RCN represents nurses and nursing, promotes
excellence in practice and shapes health policies.
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| TIE Europe is a comprehensive on-line 'One-Stop
Shop' for all information relating to telemedicine
and e-health based on clinical specialities and
settings. Our 'Toolkits' or 'How to do it' guides
enable practitioners to access easy, straightforward
information for their practice. It currently receives
12,000 hits/month. |
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| CeW is a unique knowledge base, providing timely,
high quality information of UK and European e-health
and telemedicine activity. CeW represent a collaborative
of organisations that reflect relevant and important
aspects of this emerging field of clinical practice.
This ranges from European policy and projects to
UK developments and Department of Health initiatives,
applications of technology in practice, project
and bibliographical databases and patient information.
This organisation represents the excellence of current
e-health activity. |
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| The objectives of TIS are to bring
together those working in the field of telemedicine
and telecare; to encourage them to share information
and experience; and to provide an information resource
on telemedicine activity in the UK. The Telemedicine
Information Service, of which NDTM (National Database
of Telemedicine) is part, is run by the University
of Portsmouth. We also operate an email discussion
list. TIS originated from the information collected
during separate surveys of Telemedicine and Telecare
activity in the United Kingdom, commissioned by
the Research and Development Division of the Department
of Health. This has been supplemented by information
gathered for the NDTM project. |
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The Nursing Specialist Group (NSG) is one of five Health Informatics Specialist Groups (HISGS) of the British Computer Society (BCS) and contributes to national and international debates on information management and technology issues within health care.
It does this by seeking the views of members, and via linking with other bodies eg - the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) the Royal College of Midwifery (RCM) the Health Visitors' Association (HVA) the NHS Executive's Strategic Advisory Group on Nursing Information Systems (SAGNIS) and the Nursing Professions Information Group (NPIG) etc within the United Kingdom and with international bodies such as the Special Interest Group on Nursing Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association - NI (IMIA) and various working groups within the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) |
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NANDA International
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NANDA International is a member driven, grassroots organization committed to the development of nursing diagnostic terminology. The desired outcome of the Association's work is to provide nurses at all levels and in all areas of practice with a standardized nursing terminology with which to:
name client responses to actual or potential health problems, life processes, and wellness;
document care for reimbursement of nursing services;
contribute to the development of informatics and information standards, ensuring the inclusion of nursing terminology in electronic health care records; and
facilitate study of the phenomena of concern to nurses for the purpose of improving patient care.
Nursing terminology is the key to defining the future of nursing practice and NANDA International is in the forefront. Join us and become part of this exciting process |
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SNOMED International advances excellence in patient care through the delivery of a dynamic and sustainable, scientifically validated terminology and infrastructure that enables clinicians, researchers and patients to share health care knowledge worldwide, across clinical specialties and sites of care.
SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) is a dynamic, scientifically validated clinical health care terminology and infrastructure that makes health care knowledge more usable and accessible. The SNOMED CT Core terminology provides a common language that enables a consistent way of capturing, sharing and aggregating health data across specialties and sites of care. Among the applications for SNOMED CT are electronic medical records, ICU monitoring, clinical decision support, medical research studies, clinical trials, computerized physician order entry, disease surveillance, image indexing and consumer health information services.
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The RCM Information Group was set up in the autumn of 1995 with College Officers and members who represent the College on NHS Information Management and Technology (IM&T) working groups. It was formed to give:
Support to the RCM representatives in their role
An opportunity for the College to give feedback on key information issues
A joint proactive lead in facilitating the midwifery profession to set the agenda on their information needs |
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