The material
1. Introduction link
2 Details of past courses, how to use the material and where to get the free software to read the pdf files link
3 Pre-Course Self Assessment Questionnaires :
3.1 How terrified
are you of computers link and also the on
line scoring link
3.2 How much do
you know about your computer? link
3.3 Assessing Computing
& Health Informatics Knowledge /skills / attitudes, + specific Information Systems link
4 Social Issues :
4.1 Organisational
and confidentiality issues pdf+
4.2 The consultation
- see section 17 below the communications course
4.3 Being 'Online'
- The Internet pdf+ * Social networking and business - radio 4 Peter Days world 17/1/2008 -audio mp3 file
4.3 The Information
Centre (IC) and user support pdf+
4.4 Human Computer
Interaction (HCI) pdf+
4.5 Accessing and using e-health records: A UK GPs perspective. Courtesy of Dr Dr Amir Hannan
Haughton Thornley Medical Centres, Hyde (www.htmc.co.uk) pdf+
5. Understanding
and Managing your Information: (also see section 12 below)
5.1 Introduction:
Clinical Scenarios (pdf)
5.2 Ways of thinking
about the clinical information you collect (i.e. Data) pdf+
5.3 Information, Knowledge
and Wisdom pdf+
5.4 Classification
systems (pdf)
5.5 Communications
issues related to systems development and evaluation
5.6 Common Information
Management Problems which can be solved with the use of Information
Technology (IT) pdf
5.7 Information Quality:
What it means and how to obtain it pdf & NHS data quality Radio 4 program jan. 2006 audio mp3 file
5.8 The Electronic
Health and Patient Record (EHR / EPR) pdf
5.9 Clinical decision support systems link
- Quantitative /Qualitative research - fundamental propositions pdf+
- Obtaining requirements - Engineering (Quantitative) perspective pdf+
- Obtaining requirements - Qualitative perspective pdf+ Supporting articles:
| 'bad'
organisational reasons for 'good' clinical records by Christian
Heath and Paul Luff (pdf) The contribution of ethnographic research methods to bridging the gap Lynda J. Harvey and Michael D. Myers (pdf) Investigating information systems with Ethnographic Research by Michael D. Myers (pdf) Carolyn Aydin's Work on Communication and Information Systems in Hospitals (pdf+) Littlejohns excellent book "Theories of human communication Additional material for each chapter link |
6 Using
Computers (Information Technology)
Material no longer available/required as this was a basic IT introduction i.e. file/folder management/ the internet and using excel. link to old material
Material no longer available/required as this was a basic IT introduction i.e. file/folder management/ the internet and using excel. link to old material
7 The
theory behind collecting Structured Information ('Databases'):
7.1 How
to use the Database material
7.2 Databases and
DBMS's pdf+
7.3 Relationships pdf+
7.4 Business objects
7.5 Theory behind
QBE and SQL pdf+
7.6 Modelling complex
relationships (now in the uml section)
7.7 Introduction
to Normalisation (part 1) (Web
based tutorial)
7.8 Introduction
to Normalisation (part 2) (pdf)
7.9 So you want
to develop a database? (pdf)
7.10 Recent advances
in Databases including the Web (pdf)
9 Statistics:
Basic Statistics Revision What you learnt at school and university: mean, median, mode, range, interquartile range, standard deviation, variance, bar charts, boxplots scatter plots, line of best fit etc.
Essential Medical Statistics Comparing two groups, comparing proportions and counts, simple regression, odds and risks, assessing ordinal data, p values, power and calculating required sample size. Youtube videos to accompany the course at:
http://www.youtube.com/user/theoldorganplayer#grid/user/9F0EBD42C0AB37D0
Advanced Medical Statistics Survival analysis, Cox regression, multiple regression, ANCOVA, Modern techniques to analysing Repeated measures, Random effects, Multilevel modelling, Factor analysis). Youtube videos to accompany course 2 at: http://www.youtube.com/user/theoldorganplayer#grid/user/05FC4785D24C6E68
10 Analysing
Hospital Produced Information (SPSS with HES Data Sets)
A hands on introduction for clinicians link
11 Working
out your Information and Process Requirements ('Modelling'):
| UML course | old additional material |
| My Youtube UML videos | |
| Scenario's pdf+ | |
| Introduction to modelling pdf+ | Starting to model using erds (pdf) |
| UML Classes & Instances pdf+ | |
| UML associations pdf+ | |
| UML class diagrams tricks and tips pdf+ | |
| UML use case & sequence diagrams pdf+ | |
| UML state machine diagrams pdf+ | |
| Theories underlying modelling approaches pdf+ | Designing the human interface - screen design pdf+ |
| old material |
| Quick introduction
(one afternoon) to Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) (pdf) Care pathways Introduction to the research / concepts (part of a report with Senga Bond) (pdf) Care pathways Introduction - lecture notes (pdf) Examples of Care pathways along with articles Old practical tutorials using System architect etc. |
12 Health
Care Information Systems: (also see section 5 above)
12.1 Types of Information
System pdf+
12.2 Development
methods pdf+
12.3 Getting Clinicians
/ Users Involved in developing Information Systems pdf+
12.4 Introduction to Clinical decision Support Systems (CDSS) including sensitivity and Specificity link
12.5 So you want
to develop a Database? (pdf)
15 Aspects
of Project Management for Clinicians:
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Networks, Gantt
charts and Critical Paths (pdf)