Needless to say we’re delighted to have won and are grateful to alot of folks who have contributed significantly over the past 12 months . The final takes place the end of November in Dublin where we shall be pitching for a price fund of Eur 100,000.
I was made aware of this from a colleague in the US. For groups or organisations who are doing research into capturing information from the Patient journey this could be a worthwhile organisation to look to for monetary support to get your project off the ground.
Just back from a very interesting conference in London on outcome measurement in healthcare services from the patient’s perspective. As longtime proponents of the value of outcome feedback from patients/clients of healthcare services we were heartened by the increased emphasis on this area within the UK DOH and NHS.
This PROMS conference was in conjunction with the Institute of Healthcare Management and featured some very interesting presentations on the application of PROMS in healthcare provision in the UK. The event was absolutely packed out (estimate 250 attendees), mostly NHS healthcare managers and senior medical consultants in attendance. The organisers had clearly underestimated the interest in this subject.
What has prompted the growing interest in this event is the new Standard NHS Contract for Acute Services, introduced in April 2008 by the UK DOH. This includes a requirement in Schedule 5 to report from April 2009 on patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in a number of clincal specialities, hence the rush to understand PROMS and how to implement them by clinicians and healthcare managers.
Attendees heard from a range of speakers about the applications of PROMS in health. Stefan Cano a researcher with the Institute of Neurology and psychometrician, gave an excellent presentation on the psychometrics of PROMS and had some very critical things to say about many of the current PROMS in practice. A psychologist by profession, he is clearly an individual with an indepth knowledge of the area backed up by excelllent research data and great presentation skills in what is quite a technical area. I expect to be posting further blogs about his work in the future.
Next up was Mark Emerton, clearly an expert in his specialist field of urology, his overview of the development of PROMS in this field was illuminated by his extensive clinical experience in the field. He trained as a psychologist prior to his training as a surgeon specialising in urology and his interest in the patients perspective on outcomes was been a consistent themes in his work
I’m not long in the door from attending the Health Informatics Society of Ireland annual conference. The Keynote speakers today were very impressive and I met some great people.
At the moment I’m too tired to write an entire post. However I was Tweeting at the event, for those of you not following me on Twitter here are the Tweets during the Keynote speakers (my iPhone battery ran out at noon)
For those of you unfamiliar with Twitter it is a Micro Blogging tool. Entries must be 140 characters or less and are generally called Tweets. You can follow people on Twitter and their updates and they in turn can follow your updates on Twitter.
The hash # tag can be added to Tweets to give contextual information to your entries, such as your location or a particular conference, event or topic. In this case I used the #HISI tag to signify Health Informatics Society of Ireland. People who cannot attend the event or who wish to find out what people are “Tweeting” on a particular location, conference or topic can search for Tweets containing that hash tag.
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