Informatics
Introduction
Health Informatics is the internationally recognised and Department of Health term covering the use of resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine.
The number of Emergency Department attendances has been increasing rapidly over the last few years, which has focussed attention on why this has occurred.
There are several aspects to the CEM Informatics group’s work:
- What information should be collected in Emergency Departments? [See CEM Minimum Dataset]
- How should diagnostic information be collected [See CEM Unified Diagnostic Dataset]
- How should information be collected in Emergency Departments?
- How should information from Emergency Departments be shared?
- How should information be used to remunerate Emergency Departments? How can remuneration of Emergency Departments improve patient care, and what information is required for this? [See Casemix - how your ED is paid]
News
September 2011
Summary Care Record - visit this page for a summary of progress on the introduction of summary care records and their impact on Emergency Departments in England.
June 2011
The Data Vacuum in Emergency Care (British Journal of Healthcare Management 2011 Vol 17 No 1 http://www.bjhcm.co.uk/) - Download a recent article written by members of the CEM Informatics group that describes the current situation with respect to PbR, assesses the problems that currently
exist and describes an initiative by the College of Emergency Medicine to improve data collection and accuracy to inform commissioners and clinicians of the clinical activity that is occurring within Emergency Departments.
Latest version of Unified Diagnostic DAtaset (UDDA) published (16th June 2011).
May 2011
Agreement has been reached between CEM, Connecting for Health and the Department of Health Information Centre about the form of future information collection in Emergency Departments.
In future diagnostic data will be collected either in
- ICD10 form using the CEM Unified Diagnostic DAtaset (UDDA) OR
- SNOMED form and then reduced to ICD10 form using UDDA
In future, treatment and investigation data will be collected in OPCS format rather than CDS format.
March 2011
Important update on PbR arrangements for 2011/12 (9th Mar 2011) - Please note this is a slightly amended version of the update originally published on 25th Feb 2011)