Really Proud

Reblogged from OTalk_Occhat:

All of us at #OTalk/#Occhat are really proud of our fantastic Twitter Community.

Yesterday we heard that #OTalk and #WeNurses were mentioned in a government report relation to the series of Professionalism talks we held in response to Karen Middleton's Big Conversation (which were supported by BAOT/COT).

This report is the Department of Health's 'Patients First and Foremost: The Initial Government Response to the Report of The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry'.

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I have to re-blog this from our #OTalk blog- we're so proud to be mentioned in the Department of Health response to the Francis enquiry... See p.31 Well done to the whole team, and to everyone who has participated in our chats- what we're doing is driving up standards in healthcare- it's official!

Thanks for your support

Reblogged from womeninthelabourmovement:

It is great to see so many signatories from across the movement, we are reposting the statement with those who have signed in order of union.

We hope this will help you organise solidarity within your union, please circulate to others in your union/organisation to sign.

If you wish your union added to your name please comment and we will update it.

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I added my support to this call for safe spaces for women throughout the labour movement. As an OT and member of BAOT, I'm also a UNISON member. It would be great to see more OTs sign this pledge....

A response, with YoungMinds, to 'My daughter the schizophrenic'

Reblogged from Clinical Psychology and People:

On 19.01.2013 the Guardian's weekend magazine published a story entitled 'My daughter the schizophrenic'.  I was previously aware of this little girl as I had seen the documentary 'Born schizophrenic'.  The documentary gave me sleepless nights.  The article brought them back.  I had to respond and I am thrilled that YoungMinds (@YoungMindsUK) agreed to publish it as a joint statement.  This, for me, indicates that there are many of us, in all sectors fighting for better ways of thinking and talking about young people with psychological difficulties. 

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I was going to write about this article, but this blog puts across my thoughts much better. Joint blog by a clinical psychologist and the Director of Young Minds.

#occhat topic 4/12/12 - Occupational Balance in the Digital Age

Reblogged from OTalk_Occhat:

As a keen user of social media and a gadget addict I have seen my time use change dramatically over the past few years. As Christmas approaches and many people hope that the newest gadget arrives from Santa I thought it timely to discuss the impact of the 'Digital Age' on occupational balance. This week's occhat will encourage participants to discuss the benefits and challenges digital media and technology places on our occupational balance as well as identifying strategies that can be employed to maintain/improve balance when needed.

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A timely chat is planned tonight for #Occhat- how do we retain our occupational balance in the digital age? Join us 8pm GMT on Twitter to discuss.

#Occhat Nov 20th- Using equipment to facilitate occupation

I’m in the hotseat for the #occhat Twitter discussion tonight- and it’s been a while since I was able to facilitate, so I am looking forward to it and feeling anxious about it in equal measure!

Why are we looking at equipment?

One of our core skills as OTs is the prescription of environmental adaptations including adaptive equipment, so of course, we’re always interested in gadgets and things to make life easier.

As a disabled woman, I’m very grateful for some of the equipment that has become part of my everyday life, like my mobility scooter, or my bed stick. But equipment is much broader than just the stuff you can get through your local equipment store.

I consider my eye-Pad to be one of the best bits of adaptive equipment I have. It’s a multi-functional entertainment system, so if I’m ill, I can watch TV in bed, or catch up with my friends on social networks. If I have light sensitivity, I can alter the settings to make using it more comfortable. If there is nothing for it but to keep my eyes firmly closed, I can switch to listening to radio comedy or drama. This is brilliant for keeping me entertained and distracted from the pain when I am ill!

My children are able to use the features of the tablet to pinch, select, turn and type emails to their family, using a simple email app. They also play with their Moshi Monsters, dance to films on YouTube, and draw and make videos. They can do all this with me in my bed, when I’m ill- there is no bit of kit in the equipment store that you could say that about! So a tablet computer can help me to perform the life role of “Mum”, even when I have a disability that makes some activities very difficult indeed.

I know people who use Siri as speech recognition software- where they have spasm or pain in their fingers, for instance. (p.s. if you have Siri, do ask him/her “Who let the dogs out?”- it’s very funny!)

But this isn’t an advert for Apple, and yes, other tablet computers are available (my partner loves his Google Nexus). We’re thinking about equipment in it’s broadest sense, and how it enables us to perform occupations and life roles.

COT partnering with Boots

We’re also prompted to consider this topic in the light of the recent announcement by the COT of the new partnership they have developed with Boots- please see http://www.cot.co.uk/homepage/new-partnership-puts-occupational-therapy-high-street

Do we think this promotes the benefits of OT to a wider audience?

Are there concerns related to this?

Does it help or hinder the public perception of OT to be linked so explicitly with equipment provision- after all, we do so much more?

I know you will have lots of brilliant examples of how equipment helps you to live life your way. You may also have opinions about COT partnering with Boots. To join in the conversation, please join us for our Twitter chat tonight at 8-9pm.

Just add #occhat to your tweets, so we can all see them. And do please remember your responsibilities related to your HPC registration when you Tweet.

See you there!

Celebrating the Global OT Family- @HelenOT_UK of #OTalk on Blog Talk Radio

One of the projects I’m involved with is the weekly Twitter-based supervision and support group chats, called #OTalk and #Occhat.
We’ve been doing the chats for almost a year now, and they have been a fantastic contribution to the world of online OTs, connecting us across continents, and allowing us to share elements of our practice and the scientific and creative elements of occupational science that informs our work.
There is an annual event, the Occupational Therapy Global Day of Service (OTGDS), and there was a recent radio interview with one of our core #OTalk group, @HelenOT_UK, along with representatives of the truly global profession of which we are a part. Please listen to the embedded link below.

Listen tointernet radio with Latino Role Models Success on Blog Talk Radio

Privilege in an Ablist society

Ablism

Wikipedia defines ablism as:

Ableism (pronounced ey-buh-liz-uhm) is a form of discrimination or social prejudice against people with disabilities… It is also sometimes known as disablism, although there is some dispute as to whether ableism and disablism are synonymous, and some people within disability rights circles find the latter term’s use inaccurate.

The ableist worldview holds that disability is an error, a mistake, or a failing, rather than a simple consequence of human diversity, akin to race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender

Essentially, Ablism is the description used by disabled people to refer to the systematic discrimination they face, just as Feminists use sexism, to describe a world they inhabit that affords advantages to men.

Membership of a privileged group in an unequal society.

Under sexism, we can understand that men are the oppressing group, women are the oppressed group. Obviously, this is not to say that all men are advantaged over all women. However, this is the basic framework we’re going to use when looking at ablism. In this case, not-yet-disabled people are the oppressing group, disabled people are the oppressed group. This means that the not-yet-disabled are said to have “privilege”.

If you do a Google search for “feminism 101″ or “sexism privilege” you’ll find a whole range of blogs and articles to discuss what these terms mean. I’m going to use several of them to explore the meaning.

Privilege

(Privilege) It is a status that is conferred by society to certain groups, not seized by individuals, which is why it can be difficult sometimes to see one’s own privilege.

Male privilege is a set of privileges that are given to men as a class due to their institutional power in relation to women as a class. While every man experiences privilege differently due to his own individual position in the social hierarchy, every man, by virtue of being read as male by society, benefits from male privilege.

Although different privileges bestow certain common characteristics (membership in the norm, the ability to choose whether to object to the power system, and the invisibility of its benefit), the form of a privilege may vary according to the power relationship that produces it. Male privilege and heterosexual privilege result from the gender hierarchy. Class privilege derives from an economic, wealth-based hierarchy.

Lots of my readers are OTs and other healthcare workers, and they might already be feeling a bit of bristling, and thinking “but I’M not someone who discriminates against disabled people”.

First, let’s define some of the terms we need to use to explore this,  then look at if and when they could apply to your practice, your interactions.

Privilege was first coined in discussions about “White Privilege” by Peggy McIntosh in  “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”.

McIntosh observes that whites in the U.S. are “taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group.” To illustrate these invisible systems, McIntosh wrote a list of 26 invisible privileges whites benefit from.

Inspired by this, the feminist community used the term to discuss male privilege.

From “The Male Privilege Checklist“, a statement about privilege:

… an internet acquaintance of mine once wrote, “The first big privilege which whites, males, people in upper economic classes, the able bodied, the straight (I think one or two of those will cover most of us) can work to alleviate is the privilege to be oblivious to privilege.”

“The Male Privilege Checklist” explores just what feminists say when they state that men enjoy “privilege”. For our purposes, we could explore privileges aforded to “not-yet-disabled” for men, versus “disabled” for women, to see how the term could apply to our experiences.

The Feminism 101 Blog is a great resource to give you access to good explanations of basic concepts in rights-based movements such as feminism. Often, you’ll find in feminist safe spaces that people will refuse to answer basic or level 101 questions about sexism, and these resources are specifically set up to assist people with no prior study of the issues to be able to join these issues without derailing discussions by requests to go over old and concluded arguments.

I haven’t found much as examples of Ablism 101, but I think this reflects the different stage we are at as a movement, and the fact that these discussions have not yet moved beyond the special interest groups examining the experience of contemporary disability, into mainstream conversation. I’m hoping to encounter more resources that will help with this, as the Paralympics seem to be changing the discourse around ability and disability, as are the Governments changes to the Welfare State here in the UK. This is, understandably, causing reaction to ripple through the disabled community as we define what the Paralympics stand for, for us.

I am proposing that there is such a thing as “Ablist privilege”, and that it is the responsibility of the not-yet-disabled community to reflect on what that means, and to deconstruct it with their disabled colleagues and friends.

What is Derailing?

Derailing is the term for bringing up irrelevant items within a discussion thread, or insisting the discussion happens on terms you are comfortable with, which shifts the focus of attention from the subject at hand to the subject preferred by the derailer. People often attempt to derail conversations because of their privilege.

“Educate me” as a derailing tactic

A particular attempt to derail is made when people with privilege expect those without it to educate them. Rather than take responsibility for their own behaviour, and reflect and research why a person might have told them their language was inappropriate, they attempt to reflect the responsibility for their education back onto the offended party.

I recently encountered this when I attempted to call out a person that I felt was unconcious of their ablist privilege in advising disabled people to “Educate, don’t bitch“. Please see the extract below:

There is an appetite, an opportunity, an excitement from the general public. A chance to, dare I say it ‘normalise’ disability, I know, I know, but the point I’m trying to make is that many people who only ever glance out the corner of their eyes, and those who blatantly stare at someone with a disability strolling down the street, have the chance to see what disabled people can, and do, achieve. They have the opportunity to learn, to watch, to engage. I think we should all be welcoming this chance.

….and yet my twitter stream has lots of people complaining about language, about how people refer to disability, about people getting it wrong. There are concerns about being too patronising, or claiming people are superhuman when really they’re just getting on with their lives. I thought Georgie Bingham summarised it quite well in her blog post about reporting the Paralympics. There have also been a couple examples of athletes getting into trouble with other athletes for dissing their sport or their efforts.

I know language is important, I know it *is* worth considering how we communicate. I also know that many, many people are currently engaging with the Paralympics who don’t have every day contact with people who are disabled, or don’t know that they do. People are interested, they are ready and waiting to be inspired. Some of them are alo nervous, worried about getting it wrong, offending someone or misunderstanding them. Please, please can we focus positively and educate people but let’s not get all huffy about people who get it wrong, not the first time anyway. I think as a society we have a long way to go until people are comfortable with disability, there is lots that needs to improve, but let’s take people with us on that journey. Let’s educate not bitch. I think we’re far more likely to change perceptions and have a lasting legacy if we bring people with us and do so positively.

There followed a Twitter conversation, and comments back and forth on the blog. I’m deeply grateful to George for giving me the opportunity to think about why this idea that disabled people should “Educate, not bitch” would upset me so, and the word I found myself wanting to use was derailing- it was one of the conversations that led to my posting this blog.

“Derailing for Dummies” has an entire section devoted to this, and I’m reproducing it below as it explains far better than I can how this happens:

If You Won’t Educate Me How Can I Learn?

Whilst seemingly simple on the surface, there is some intertwining subtext embedded within this one.First of all, you’re placing responsibility for your education back onto the Marginalised Person™. As they are obviously engaged with these issues, and care about them, they are hopeful that Privileged People® may one day start listening and taking on board what they have to say. By placing responsibility to educate in their hands, you tug at this yearning. You may even successfully make many question themselves and their selfish expectations that you utilise the hundreds upon hundreds of resources on the subject available to you as a Privileged Person®! After all, anyone who expects you to be able to research a topic by yourself also clearly expects you to be far more of a functioning adult than you’re acting! 
By insisting you can only learn if they right then and there sacrifice further hours of time going over the same ground they have so often in the past, you may also make them give up and go away altogether, enabling you to win by default. But further, you give the impression that you really want to learn, but they’re holding you back! That’s right, using this tactic you can suggest that full understanding is what you crave – you want to be a better, more connected and compassionate person – but it’s not your fault! Nobody ever gave you the education! And now that someone is here who is so obviously qualified, they’re denying you your Privilege® given right to have everything you want handed to you on a platter! Which brings us to another key component of this argument – it is very important, in conversations with Marginalised People™, to constantly remind them that you are, indeed, Privileged®. By demonstrating your belief that Marginalised People™ should immediately gratify your every whim, you remind them of their place in society. After all, they’re not there to live lives free of discrimination and in happy, independent and fulfilling ways! Please! Marginalised People™ exist for your curiosity and to make you generally feel better about your place in society and don’t let them forget it! 

I also love this piece, from the same blog:

If You Cared About These Matters You’d Be Willing To Educate Me

This is the natural follow-up to the above argument, although it can also be used independently.

You see, often in these discussions a Marginalised Person™ will tell you it’s not their responsibility to educate you. This is because Marginalised People™ believe that they have other priorities in life, like working and studying and being with their families for example. 

Clearly, they are labouring under a misperception – as a Privileged Person® you have far more right to their time than they do, and besides, don’t they want to make the world a better place? Isn’t that why they alerted you to the fact you were being offensive in the first place? Well, now clearly your education is their responsibility!
By placing this burden of responsibility onto them you remind them of just how daunting a task that is and how their lives are constantly being monopolised by the Privileged®, even in something that should be empowering to them, like deconstructing discrimination.

You trivialise their lives, needs, interests and obligations by suggesting they should be spending all of their time and energy in engaging with clueless Privileged People®, putting in hours and hours of effort in repeating the exact same thing they’ve already said three thousand times to three thousand other Privileged People® in their past.

And furthermore, you remind them that, if they really cared about their own issues, they’d willingly take that task on! Surely it’s a small price to pay to change people‘s minds?

Well, you want them to think that, but of course it isn’t.  After all, most of the conversations they have with Privileged People® often feel to them like beating their heads repeatedly against a brick wall embedded with rusty spikes. 

Which is entirely the point. Keep them worn out and exhausted and maybe they’ll just go away.

The aim of this piece was to introduce the concepts of ablism, privilege and derailing to you. You may not have come across them before, but understanding this sociological theory can be really helpful to enable us to understand the murky dynamics at play with societal resistance to rights-based movements.

If you would like to take the next step, I’m completing a post about intersectionality, next.

References:

Ablism, Wikipedia [Available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ableism Accessed on 02/09/12 at 22.34]

Derailing for dummies, [Available at http://www.derailingfordummies.com/complete.html and http://www.derailingfordummies.com/complete.html#educate Accessed 02/09/12 at 22.12]

Francesca Martinez (2012) Empty words don’t fund a full life for disabled people. The Independent. 2nd September, 2012. [Available at http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/francesca-martinez-empty-words-dont-fund-a-full-life-for-disabled-people-8100582.html Accessed on 02/09/2012 at 22.19]

Peggy McIntosh (1990) White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.  Available at http://www.amptoons.com/blog/files/mcintosh.html [Accessed on 02/09/12 at 22.40]

Male Privilege, Finally a Feminism 101 Blog (frequently asked questions). Available at http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/faq-what-is-male-privilege/  [Accessed on 02/09/12 at 22.36]

The Male Privilege Checklist, Alas! A Blog.  Available at http://www.amptoons.com/blog/the-male-privilege-checklist/ [Accessed on 02/09/12 at 22.39]

Stella Young (2012) We’re not here for your inspiration. ABC Ramp UP 02/07/2012. Available at    http://www.abc.net.au/rampup/articles/2012/07/02/3537035.htm [Accessed on 02/09/12 at 22.47]

The Social Model of Disability

Prior to any discussion related to language, behaviour, ablism and ablist activism, or anything else related to disability rights, it’s important to understand that disabled people usually operate using the Social Model of Disability. This is in contrast with some health care workers, who are operating using a deficit or Medical Model of Disability.

Medical and Social Models of Disability

The Medical Model of Disability- defined by Wikipedia as:

 … a functional analysis of the body as machine to be fixed in order to conform with normative values …

The Social Model of Disability- coined by Disabled activist Mike Oliver in 1983 and defined by Wikipedia:

The social model of disability identifies systemic barriers, negative attitudes and exclusion by society (purposely or inadvertently) that mean society is the main contributory factor in disabling people. While physical, sensory, intellectual, or psychological variations, may cause individual functional limitation or impairments, these do not have to lead to disability unless society fails to take account of and include people regardless of their individual differences. The origins of the approach can be traced to the 1960s; the specific term emerged from the United Kingdom in the 1980s.

The “social model” was extended and developed by academics and activists in the UK, US and other countries, and extended to include all disabled people, including those who have learning difficulties / learning disabilities / or who are mentally handicapped, or people with emotional, mental health or behavioural problems.

Briefly, it matters to understand and be able to recognise when a person is using one model or another, in part because the language considered offensive will be very different.

Again, Wikipedia:

In 1975, the UK organization Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation(UPIAS) claimed : “In our view it is society which disables physically impaired people. Disability is something imposed on top of our impairments by the way we are unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society.”

Disability vs Impairment

One of the key things to understand about the Social Model is the difference between disability and impairment:

The social model of disability is based on a distinction between the terms “impairment” and “disability.” Impairment is used to refer to the actual attributes (or lack of attributes), the abnormality, of a person, whether in terms of limbs, organs or mechanisms, including psychological. Disability is used to refer to the restrictions caused by society when it does not give equivalent attention and accommodation to the needs of individuals with impairments.

Some organisations recognise that these arguments, that have been thought about, rehearsed, and finally concluded, result in clear guidelines that when talking with or to Disabled people’s groups, we should use the Social Model as a default (and all that implies in terms of language and ettiquette).

Disability Etiquette

I found a great resource by Herriot Watt University, that really helps to make clear to not-yet-disabled people how to behave around disabled people.

Below is a set of guidelines on appropriate language and behaviour to use when interacting with disabled students. Please note that these guidelines are not exhaustive and that some language which is considered appropriate by one person may not be considered appropriate by another. If you are unsure about the language you are using, then ask the disabled person what they feel most comfortable with and continue to use this language whilst in their presence.

Avoid/Inappropriate	Use/Appropriate
The disabled, the handicapped	People with disabilities
Cripple, physically handicapped or wheelchair bound. These terms are patronizing.	A person with a physical disability/impairment or wheelchair user
Spastic	A person with cerebral palsy
Deaf and dumb	A person with hearing and speech impairments
The Blind	People who are B/blind, partially sighted, visually impaired
The Deaf	People who are D/deaf, hearing impaired
Raising your voice or talking as if speaking to a child.	Maintain your usual pitch volume and rhythm when speaking
Interrupting a person with a speech impairment and trying to finish sentences for them.	Listen patiently and ask for clarification if you have not understood.
Putting your hands near your mouth when communicating with someone who is Deaf or hearing-impaired.	Ensure that they have a clear view of your face
Playing ‘guess who’ games with people who are blind or visually impaired	Introduce yourself by name to a person who is blind
Looking down at a person in a wheelchair for a prolonged period	Sit down and talk to them this makes eye contact easier and means they are not constantly craning their neck to look up at you.
Speaking to a disabled person’s friend or support worker when your conversation is directed at the person with a disability.	Speak directly to the disabled person

It is quite appropriate to continue using words such as see, look, walk, listen, when talking to people with various disabilities.

I would also add the edit that using “disabled people” as a term is preferred by many people over “people with disabilities”, as it locates the responsibility for the disability within society rather than within the person, so it is more in line with the Social Model.

As a general rule, referring to people “with” a learning difficulty, or schizophrenia, or osteoarthritis as opposed to “suffering from” what ever impairment they have is also worth remembering- lots of disabled people don’t “suffer” from their imparments (e.g. Deaf people vs hearing people, people with Autism or Aspergers (or neurotypically interesting!) vs neurotypical people.)

Also, please note the very iportaant advice to listen to what disabled people may feel able to share with you about how the language they use affects them. Disabled people are aware that you might not have been educated about this, and may share with you (if they feel comfortable enough with you, and like it’s not a lost cause) so please, do listen if someone shares with you a request to use language that they prefer.

Privilege in ablist society

We are often educated seperately and live in different types of housing. We don’t meet each other in our largely inaccessible public spaces. It’s okay to feel ill-equipped to know how to be around disabled people, and what to say. In fact, even if you’ve spent time around disabled people, you may not be aware of the daily challenges they face that have led to these political responses by Disabled people over the past 40 years.

What is not okay is refusing to recognise privilege afforded to people who are not-yet-disabled in an ablist society.

To find out what I mean by privilege, look out for my next post.

edit: I have been asked to clarify that the current edition of “Social Work with Disabled People” was published this year and can be cited as the source for the reference to Mark Oliver’s coining of the phrase “The Social Model of Disability” in his work with the Union of Physically Impaired Against Segregation (UPIAS).

Mike Oliver, Bob Sapey and Pam Thomas (2012) Social Work with Disabled People 4th ed. Palgrave.

References:

Herriot Watt University Advice for Staff – Disability Etiquette http://www.hw.ac.uk/welfare/disability-service/staff/disability-etiquette.htm  [Accessed 02/09/2012 at 12.27]

Wikipedia The Social Model of Disability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_model_of_disability [Accessed 02/09/2012 at 12.27]

“All Welcome” picture available at http://partnership.education.manchester.ac.uk/documents/emancipatory_participatory_rsrch_easy.htm  [Accessed 02/09/2012 at 12.27]

#HC2012 Grabchat of Health Informatics Congress 2-3rd May 2012

I didn’t attend this conference, but following the hashtag made me aware of how many great Tweeps and fantastic information was shared at the event. So, here is my grabchat and top links.

This event is definetely on my agenda for next year!

For the full agenda and more information about the event, please see http://hc2012.bcs.org/

Tweeps

Top resources …

http://yfrog.com/ockr9ipj
http://yfrog.com/kiiqbpaj
http://www.bigwhitewall.com/my-account/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f
http://www.htmc.co.uk
http://twitter.com/IMSMAXIMS/status/197645682511843328/photo/1
http://hc2012.bcs.org/
http://yfrog.com/kf7ixlzdj
http://www.slideshare.net/jonathanhassell/improving-accessibility-for-online-healthcare-service-users
http://twitter.com/IMSMAXIMS/status/197713632879058944/photo/1
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.414364178583318.104647.389715624381507&type=3

Related tags …

#hc2012 #nhs #healthcare #ehi #in

See Twitter for more tweets, people, videos and photos for #HC2012

@MazMSMC	Hoping to get updated at #HC2012 today and tomorrow #in (Wed, 02 May 2012 08:15:30 +0100)
@IMSMAXIMS	IMS Maxims unveils upgrade to emergency department modules @BCS #HC2012 http://t.co/1repDCf3 #NHS #NPfIT (Wed, 02 May 2012 08:20:03 +0100)
@bcs	@Harrishlthcare announces that Frimley Park has signed a contract for its clinical portal, visit stand 37 to find out more #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 08:45:01 +0100)
@bcs	It’s the start of #HC2012 today! Let us know if you will be here. Plenary opens at 10am with Matthew Swindells and Nick Ross #healthcare (Wed, 02 May 2012 08:58:11 +0100)
@HighlandMarktng	First peak from #HC2012 before the delegates flood in! http://t.co/lPUIdpRh (Wed, 02 May 2012 08:59:10 +0100)
@RattlerTarek	RT @bcs : It’s the start of #HC2012 today! Let us know if you will be here. Plenary opens at 10am with Matthew Swindells and Nick Ross #healthcare (Wed, 02 May 2012 08:59:27 +0100)
@HarrisHlthcare	Frimley Park has signed a contract for its clinical portal, visit Harris Healthcare on stand 37 to find out more #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 09:00:03 +0100)
@IMSMAXIMS	Clinician worklists, KPI?s, alerts, discharge summaries- just some of the functions of our new ED module, visit stand 31 @BCS #HC2012 #NHS (Wed, 02 May 2012 09:05:01 +0100)
@CSCHealth	RT @CSCHealth_ePMA : RT @cschealth : Visit the CSC stand at #hc2012 to find out more about our Lorenzo, UltraGenda & ePMA solutions(Wed, 02 May 2012 09:18:26 +0100)
@KainosEvolve	The Kainos Evolve team will be at #HC2012 today and tomorrow. Visit us at stand 65!(Wed, 02 May 2012 09:19:09 +0100)
@bluemonki	I have arrived at #HC2012 time for some serious hob-knobbing http://t.co/5C0iJh7w (Wed, 02 May 2012 09:19:44 +0100)
@CSCHealth	RT @bcs : It’s the start of #HC2012 today! Let us know if you will be here. Plenary opens at 10am with Matthew Swindells and Nick Ross #healthcare (Wed, 02 May 2012 09:20:38 +0100)
@JoD1905	At #HC2012 – looking forward to hearing Susan Hamer later.(Wed, 02 May 2012 09:21:34 +0100)
@KainosEvolve	Catch Neil Turnbull (Ipswich Hosp NHS Trust) presenting ‘Implementing EDM in Practice’ – 10.50am in Best Practice Theatre at #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 09:22:35 +0100)
@RCPLondon	Interested in Health Informatics? RCP’s @ HC2012 over next 2 days. Come & visit- stand 18 #HC2012 http://t.co/RsJlMReP (Wed, 02 May 2012 09:23:20 +0100)
@thomasllewis	RT @RCPLondon : Interested in Health Informatics? RCP’s @ HC2012 over next 2 days. Come & visit- stand 18 #HC2012 http://t.co/RsJlMReP (Wed, 02 May 2012 09:25:33 +0100)
@samathieson	#HC2012 has just opened – Kable is on stand 77, conveniently next to @DHgovuk stand and a seating area. Currently on offer: Cadbury’s Roses.(Wed, 02 May 2012 09:25:53 +0100)
@samathieson	MT @HighlandMarktng : First peak from #HC2012 before the delegates flood in! http://t.co/q3n2ps3g. < Like Epic’s stone-cladding effect stand.(Wed, 02 May 2012 09:28:55 +0100)
@KainosSoftware	RT @KainosEvolve : The Kainos Evolve team will be at #HC2012 today and tomorrow. Visit us at stand 65!(Wed, 02 May 2012 09:29:02 +0100)
@JonPTLindberg	#HC2012 about to start, packed agenda and huge numbers expected. Hope to see you all there today.(Wed, 02 May 2012 09:37:19 +0100)
@ChloeCWatson	RT @samathieson : #HC2012 has just opened – Kable is on stand 77, conveniently next to @DHgovuk stand and a seating area. Currently on offer: Cadbury’s Roses.(Wed, 02 May 2012 09:40:33 +0100)
@d_williams_	Am at #HC2012 – will be tweeting from a session with NHS CB efficiency man jim easton this morn.(Wed, 02 May 2012 09:42:59 +0100)
@ehireporter	Just arrived at #HC2012 – this morning’s keynote speaker Jim Easton of the NHS Commissioning Board scheduled to start just after 10.(Wed, 02 May 2012 09:44:21 +0100)
@StephenBell_jge	RT @bcs : It’s the start of #HC2012 today! Let us know if you will be here. Plenary opens at 10am with Matthew Swindells and Nick Ross #healthcare (Wed, 02 May 2012 09:45:36 +0100)
@ehireporter	Check out at #HC2012 the @EHICCIOCampaign leaders network in stream 4 – “Clinical Leadership in a Changing World: Developing the CCIO role”(Wed, 02 May 2012 09:48:06 +0100)
@d_williams_	Given a free copy of hsj as I entered #hc2012 . Will leave it somewhere for another delegate to pick up.(Wed, 02 May 2012 09:49:48 +0100)
@inmedicalteam	#HC2012 visit us to look at some of the latest BI solutions including patient centric dashboards and urgent care analysis(Wed, 02 May 2012 09:50:07 +0100)
@d_williams_	I see the #HC2012 programme has got Dr Masood Nazir’s name right. On the website they missed off the last letter of his surname.(Wed, 02 May 2012 09:53:10 +0100)
@ehireporter	Seal’s “Crazy” welcoming people making their way to the opening address of #HC2012 ! Some may say rather apt song choice for #NHS IT!(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:02:28 +0100)
@ehireporter	Ex-Crimewatch presenter, Nick Ross, moderator of this week’s #HC2012 event, takes to the stage. http://t.co/O17sQFwQ (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:09:13 +0100)
@tobiasgavin	Gutted not to be at #HC2012 …alas client work dictates today and we are pitching tomorrow for a very cool company some gt ideas 2 show off(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:09:38 +0100)
@IMSMAXIMS	IMS MAXIMS- flexible, nimble and agile! To find out how we can support your changing #healthcare needs visit stand 31 @BCS #HC2012 #NHS (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:10:01 +0100)
@jamiebrummell	At #HC2012 in Islington this morning.(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:13:10 +0100)
@CSCHealth_NL	RT @CSCHealth : Visit the CSC stand at #hc2012 to find out more about our Lorenzo, UltraGenda & ePMA solutions(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:14:02 +0100)
@JonPTLindberg	#HC2012 mr Swindells highlight success of chief clinical information officer. And launch partnership with HIMMS to measure development.(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:14:04 +0100)
@mleavercomms	RT @d_williams_ : I see the #HC2012 programme has got Dr Masood Nazir’s name right. On the website they missed off the last letter of his surname.(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:15:03 +0100)
@SadeLaja1	At #hc2012 . Nick Ross, yes that Nick Ross, has already made his feelings for the state of health informatics crystal clear. Clue: not good.(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:16:03 +0100)
@psweetman	Who else is at #HC2012 ?(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:17:45 +0100)
@THealthSciences	Off to #HC2012 in Islington #healthinformatics (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:18:44 +0100)
@techjourna	RT @samathieson : #HC2012 has just opened – Kable is on stand 77, conveniently next to @DHgovuk stand and a seating area. Currently on offer: Cadbury’s Roses.(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:19:58 +0100)
@peterjmurray	@psweetman – hi, Pauline – yes, I’m here too at #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:20:34 +0100)
@andrewspong	No, but will follow with interest. Can you link me to an agenda? –> RT @psweetman : Who else is at #HC2012 ?(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:20:45 +0100)
@ehireporter	#HC2012 @bcs to adopt @himss EMR adoption model to allow for greater comparison between NHS IT systems and those used in other countries.(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:21:19 +0100)
@peterjmurray	@andrewspong – agenda for #HC2012 is at http://t.co/DOcLDVf5 (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:21:42 +0100)
@vectafrank	Strange #hc2012 half. The seats are empty uyet we have to stand in the gallery(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:23:06 +0100)
@andrewspong	Great! TY, Peter –> MT @peterjmurray : agenda for #HC2012 is at http://t.co/FTtr6hIU cc @psweetman (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:23:48 +0100)
@xavierdrake	? @psweetman : Who else is at #HC2012 ?? Well I am! Looking forward to 2 good days of interesting health informatics!(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:24:36 +0100)
@samathieson	@CSCHealth_UKI #hc2012 promotional yo-yos really do light up if you spin them fast enough.(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:25:35 +0100)
@JonPTLindberg	#HC2012 Jim Easton – informatics to be frontline service, driving integration and making info flow and empower people.(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:27:25 +0100)
@JoD1905	Jim Easton says health informatics will move from ‘back room’ to ‘frontline’ -great news! #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:27:36 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Easton: in ‘personal views’, will push for integrated care (whatever that means) – provision of information is a care service #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:28:24 +0100)
@JonPTLindberg	#HC2012 mr Easton – information is a care service, do you agree? What does it mean?(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:29:09 +0100)
@d_williams_	Jim Easton: “that session tonite with Tim Kelsey and Barbara Young – is that a cage fighting thing? It should be…” #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:29:27 +0100)
@nhs_iggeek	#hc2012 if information is the glue to hold care providers together then IG is what makes it set(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:29:30 +0100)
@PamNelmes007	RT @JoD1905 : Jim Easton says health informatics will move from ‘back room’ to ‘frontline’ -great news! #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:30:55 +0100)
@PamNelmes007	? @JoD1905 : Jim Easton says health informatics will move from ‘back room’ to ‘frontline’ -great news! #HC2012 ? #SWLIP (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:31:01 +0100)
@MazMSMC	Jim Easton saying partnership in information key but .. No money #HC2012 talking plans without announcing strategy true civil servant #in (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:32:25 +0100)
@d_williams_	Easton: there WILL be change. The economics will drive it. The economics trump everything. #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:33:51 +0100)
@andrewspong	@psweetman Oh dear! I hope you find power soon. Looking foward to your #HC2012 updates as and when you can.(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:34:18 +0100)
@JonPTLindberg	#HC2012 mr Easton – economics will change healthcare, even royal college presidents want to use info tech to deliver better care(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:34:27 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Easton: Top down or bottom up for information strategy ?- the answer is ‘yes’ #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:36:29 +0100)
@nhs_iggeek	#hc2012 do economics trump fundamental human rights? Is information security an unnecessary burden?(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:37:42 +0100)
@d_williams_	Jim Easton: the financial crisis on this country is a rehearsal for what the NHS will have to do oveer the nxt 20 years. #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:42:44 +0100)
@RTunmore	RT @JoD1905 : Jim Easton says health informatics will move from ‘back room’ to ‘frontline’ -great news! #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:44:32 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Don’t seem to be that many people tweeting from HC2012 – so much for use of social media by healthcare/informatics professionals #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:44:36 +0100)
@JoD1905	@PamNelmes007 She’s due to speak here later, but at the same time as Susan Hamer! Choices, choices. #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:50:57 +0100)
@CSCHealth	#hc2012 opens! http://t.co/UjIyIiPV (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:53:33 +0100)
@nickex5	“the role of the centre is not to give you systems but to set the standards” #hc2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:53:44 +0100)
@MatthewBrowning	Hi Pauline- We’ll follow the hashtag! Enjoy your day RT @psweetman : Who else is at #HC2012 ?(Wed, 02 May 2012 10:54:29 +0100)
@MatthewBrowning	RT @andrewspong : Great! TY, Peter –> MT @peterjmurray : agenda for #HC2012 is at http://t.co/FTtr6hIU cc @psweetman (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:54:55 +0100)
@ehireporter	Jim Easton – Information and IT systems will be the “glue” for integrated care. “We need to recognise that information is care”. #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 10:57:02 +0100)
@HarrisHlthcare	Harris Healthcare is announces the integration of the Carefx brand, creating an even stronger offering for the UK,visit stand 37 #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:00:04 +0100)
@bcs	Hear Lloyd McCann,medical director @Harrishlthcare discuss care across settings-Stream 3 Room B -12.15 #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:00:06 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Will we be overwhelmed with advertweets from suppliers (as at HIMSS12), or get content tweets from delegates? #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:04:59 +0100)
@JoD1905	Information strategy will be a starting point for change, driven by those leading in this field. Not the final answer – Jim Easton #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:06:24 +0100)
@CSCHealth	The famous CSC yo-yos. Going fast so don’t miss out! #hc2012 http://t.co/yEV5sMHe (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:06:43 +0100)
@ehireporter	Easton – “the information strategy is not going to be a cementing of the future, more a reflection of travel” #HC2012 .(Wed, 02 May 2012 11:08:33 +0100)
@CSCHealth	The charming Business Design Centre #hc2012 http://t.co/KlZRd1uC (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:09:54 +0100)
@markhawker	@peterjmurray Not much changes, eh! #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:17:47 +0100)
@CSCHealth_ePMA	Interested in ePMA? then pop by the CSC stand for a demo of our MedChart solution #hc2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:19:45 +0100)
@CSCHealth	RT @CSCHealth_ePMA : Interested in ePMA? then pop by the CSC stand for a demo of our MedChart solution #hc2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:20:08 +0100)
@CSCHealth	@StephenBell_jge @cschealth_epma @cschealth there is yes but unfortunately not one we can show you at #hc2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:26:38 +0100)
@CSCHealth	@NWLCN @cschealth downstairs by the entrance #hc2012 hurry, they’re going fast!(Wed, 02 May 2012 11:27:46 +0100)
@SadeLaja1	RT @ehireporter : Couple of delegates expressing their “frustration” at Easton’s speech. Lacking detail, a case of over to you! #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:28:32 +0100)
@CSCHealth	@voiceofrowing @cschealth hi Robert, how are you doing? Are you in Islington for #hc2012 ?(Wed, 02 May 2012 11:28:38 +0100)
@peterjmurray	RT @ehireporter : Couple of delegates expressing their “frustration” at Easton’s speech. Lacking detail, a case of over to you! #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:29:48 +0100)
@bcs	The IHRIM National Awards presentation has not long kicked off at @ #HC2012 #healthcare (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:31:05 +0100)
@CSCHealth	? @ehireporter : Jim Easton – Information and IT systems will be the “glue” for integrated care.” UltraGenda is one such facilitator #hc2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:33:29 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Prof Terry Young, Brunel Univ – “Health technologies – can they develop national wealth as well as population health?” #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:34:22 +0100)
@JoD1905	#hc2012 Charles Gutteridge at the clinical leadership forum – its about putting patients at the centre(Wed, 02 May 2012 11:36:24 +0100)
@CSCHealth	@ehireporter for a demo of UltraGenda (an enterprise wide scheduling solution) or Lorenzo or ePMA pls call by our stand #hc2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:40:08 +0100)
@MazMSMC	Here at health Informatics Conference; really surprised-only seen 1 iPad!!! #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:40:23 +0100)
@HarrisHlthcare	Hear Lloyd McCann,medical director, Harris Healthcare EMEA discuss care across settings-Stream 3 Room B -12.15 #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:45:01 +0100)
@JoD1905	#hc2012 our role as clinicians is to sign post patients to info and help them to understand it – them using their own records(Wed, 02 May 2012 11:46:53 +0100)
@CSCHealth	Lorenzo demonstrations at #hc2012 http://t.co/Ct1YG3M5 (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:50:56 +0100)
@samathieson	RT @SadeLaja1 : At #hc2012 . Nick Ross, yes that Nick Ross, has already made his feelings for the state of health informatics crystal clear. Clue: not good.(Wed, 02 May 2012 11:54:29 +0100)
@samathieson	RT @MazMSMC : Here at health Informatics Conference; really surprised-only seen 1 iPad!!! #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:54:52 +0100)
@bcs	This year’s #HC2012 at the Business Design Centre, London http://t.co/Spn9BZMm (Wed, 02 May 2012 11:57:29 +0100)
@BCSMemberGroups	@bcs @HIC2012BCS Looking good! #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 12:00:56 +0100)
@WoodcoteEwan	#hc2012 at the show(Wed, 02 May 2012 12:03:47 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Few seem to be using iPads, laptops for taking notes here at #HC2012 – most using pen and paper – this is a computing/informatics event ?!?(Wed, 02 May 2012 12:04:13 +0100)
@RCPLondon	Hear Prof Iain Carpenter, RCP’s Health Informatics associate director, discuss how new tech can transform clinical practice 1pm #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 12:07:29 +0100)
@CSCImperial	RT @CSCHealth : The charming Business Design Centre #hc2012 http://t.co/KlZRd1uC (Wed, 02 May 2012 12:10:06 +0100)
@IMSMAXIMS	Stand looking busy, come and see us #HC2012 http://t.co/bipQKKAt (Wed, 02 May 2012 12:16:18 +0100)
@ehireporter	RT @CSCHealth : Lorenzo demonstrations at #hc2012 http://t.co/Ct1YG3M5 (Wed, 02 May 2012 12:26:08 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Dr S G Sarwar Shah – “Understanding user perspectives: is there a role for social media?” at #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 12:29:32 +0100)
@markhawker	Um, kind of. RT @peterjmurray : Dr S G Sarwar Shah: “Understanding user perspectives: is there a role for social media? #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 12:32:09 +0100)
@THealthSciences	#hc2012 Dr Lloyd McCann “information and technology = enabler and driver of delivering integrated care”(Wed, 02 May 2012 12:32:56 +0100)
@ehireporter	Next up at #HC2012 – Healthcare, hash tags, and the @Facebook generation!(Wed, 02 May 2012 12:36:26 +0100)
@TPP_SystmOne	RT @ehireporter : Next up at #HC2012 – Healthcare, hash tags, and the @Facebook generation!(Wed, 02 May 2012 12:39:27 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Sarwar Shah: reporting on study of blog posts written by patients etc to discuss use of medical devices #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 12:40:26 +0100)
@IMSMAXIMS	Our CE @shanetickell will be presenting today at 16:30, Room C. ?Quality & value for Money? in the #NHS @BCS #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 12:45:01 +0100)
@THealthSciences	#hc2012 Keith Pollard: “web has changed the power of #patientvoice “(Wed, 02 May 2012 12:47:44 +0100)
@UKTIJordan	Meet UKTI Jordan at #HC2012 between 2-3 May, visit UKTI stand to book a meeting now! http://t.co/8REPi9FU (Wed, 02 May 2012 12:52:36 +0100)
@CSCAlan	#hc2012 a crowded CSC stand 6a at HC 2012 at the Business Design Centre London has seen strong interest on Medchart ePMA solutions(Wed, 02 May 2012 12:54:26 +0100)
@helenmariaa	At the #hc2012 talking about how social media impacts the patient…(Wed, 02 May 2012 12:55:30 +0100)
@THealthSciences	#hc2012 Keith Pollard: social media “affects patient decisions”(Wed, 02 May 2012 12:59:09 +0100)
@ehireporter	Keith Pollard – “The power of social media for healthcare organisations is listening and engaging with its consumers on their terms” #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 13:01:52 +0100)
@_PerfEngineer	RT @CSCHealth : Lorenzo demonstrations at #hc2012 http://t.co/Ct1YG3M5 (Wed, 02 May 2012 13:02:52 +0100)
@ehireporter	Within 2 weeks of the PIP implants scare, over 1.5 million web pages contained information on the issue – Pollard #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 13:04:00 +0100)
@ehireporter	Intriguing study in the US by PWC shows that 1/3 of consumers use @Facebook and @Twitter to find medical advice. #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 13:06:14 +0100)
@definitive1	RT @ehireporter : Next up at #HC2012 – Healthcare, hash tags, and the @Facebook generation!(Wed, 02 May 2012 13:22:42 +0100)
@CSCHealth	RT @ehireporter : Intriguing study in the US by PWC shows that 1/3 of consumers use @Facebook and @Twitter to find medical advice. #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 13:22:56 +0100)
@vectafrank	#hc2012 need for patient-centricity mentioned but no evidence anyone understands what that will mean for info(Wed, 02 May 2012 13:26:08 +0100)
@HighlandMarktng	RT @HarrisHlthcare : A full house for our general manager’s presentation on #outsourcing at #HC2012 http://t.co/NzTAY5ND (Wed, 02 May 2012 13:33:06 +0100)
@SECSHAQO	Meeting and greeting at #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 13:33:46 +0100)
@HighlandMarktng	RT @IMSMAXIMS : Our CE @shanetickell will be presenting today at 16:30, Room C. ?Quality & value for Money? in the #NHS @BCS #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 13:33:56 +0100)
@HarrisHlthcare	General manager of #healthcare asks ‘who has heard about open source integration’ @bcs #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 13:36:41 +0100)
@SECSHAQO	Saw this at #HC2012 … What do you thing data peeps or ? http://t.co/dRVaEtq6 (Wed, 02 May 2012 13:37:13 +0100)
@SECSHAQO	Speed networking at #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 13:38:54 +0100)
@CSCAlan	#hc2012 : RC of Physicians latest publication on the ball with ePMA news from CSC transforming medicines safety and efficiency with Medchart”(Wed, 02 May 2012 13:42:37 +0100)
@RCPLondon	Peter Greengross shows early-warning-sign app for patient obs & use on wards in RCP Fringe meet #HC2012 Quicker, better than bleep system.(Wed, 02 May 2012 13:47:49 +0100)
@SarahBoydH	At #hc2012 in Islington today. If any of you are also here and you spot me come and say hi!(Wed, 02 May 2012 13:58:53 +0100)
@MatthewBrowning	Imagine #healthcare providers where you need them, instantly. Improve #patient outcomes, save expenses. http://t.co/Bjg0dIiX #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 14:00:48 +0100)
@katycheema	Nice to see cheerful young folks who want to be in health informatics. Doing my best to impart useful career guidance #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 14:06:02 +0100)
@bcs	By transforming data into secure info,we enable higher quality care at lower costs anytime,anywhere.Visit Harris Healthcare,stand 37 #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 14:30:05 +0100)
@nhs_iggeek	#hc2012 Tim straughan says IG as a barrier is to be broken down. I think he means perceived barrier!(Wed, 02 May 2012 14:32:54 +0100)
@HIC2012BCS	RT @WoodcoteEwan : #hc2012 at the show(Wed, 02 May 2012 14:39:50 +0100)
@peterjmurray	NHS Information Centre (Straughan) says will move more to open data – routine publication of raw data #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 14:41:19 +0100)
@Sergei67	RT @THealthSciences : #hc2012 Keith Pollard: social media “affects patient decisions”(Wed, 02 May 2012 14:45:29 +0100)
@Sergei67	RT @THealthSciences : #hc2012 Dr Lloyd McCann “information and technology = enabler and driver of delivering integrated care”(Wed, 02 May 2012 14:45:33 +0100)
@HarrisHlthcare	By transforming data into secure info,we enable higher quality care at lower costs anytime,anywhere.Visit Harris Healthcare,stand 37 #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 15:00:13 +0100)
@samathieson	@MazMSMC Now I look, there are iPads at #hc2012 . Also, @Cerner releasing #iPad software & many suppliers of health-specific mobile devices.(Wed, 02 May 2012 15:05:37 +0100)
@peterjmurray	HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber introducing session on their EMR adoption model ; IT is a strategic asset in organisations #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 15:15:56 +0100)
@psweetman	RT @peterjmurray : HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber introducing session on their EMR adoption model ; IT is a strategic asset in organisations #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 15:16:19 +0100)
@Channel3Consult	RT @SarahBoydH : At #hc2012 in Islington today. If any of you are also here and you spot me come and say hi!(Wed, 02 May 2012 15:16:56 +0100)
@psweetman	Peter Murphy of UK Faculty of Health Informatics introducing session on usability design in health systems #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 15:18:05 +0100)
@psweetman	Libby Morris, ‘Lessons from Scottish emergency care summary’ – meds & demographic info extracted twice a day #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 15:22:28 +0100)
@psweetman	Morris: Scottish eHealth evaluated emergency care summary, 100+ NHS24 clinicians, 60% said info summary changed their actions #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 15:25:17 +0100)
@psweetman	Morris: eHealth Scotland also has a palliative care summary. Positive user feedback & good suggestions for improvement #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 15:28:04 +0100)
@JoD1905	#hc2012 So many personal stories at #HC2012 – we need to keep our vision for making it better.(Wed, 02 May 2012 15:28:44 +0100)
@psweetman	Morris: nearly all Scotland has ECS (meds, allergies, demog) now working on a Key Info Summary to include diagnosis & extra info #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 15:30:39 +0100)
@psweetman	Morris: usability affects accesses, enhance system, employ standards, analyse accesses over time to check it works. ‘Keep it simple’ #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 15:35:57 +0100)
@psweetman	On now to Kit Lewis, talking on usability & prescribing systems #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 15:37:07 +0100)
@psweetman	Lewis: user centred design, safety critical, manage risks #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 15:38:57 +0100)
@psweetman	Lewis: waterfall less useful as no feedback, better to iterate w user feedback & cycle. User-centred design starts b4 procurement #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 15:41:32 +0100)
@psweetman	Lewis: often 3rd party observer can analyse clinical process better than clinician familiar with environment #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 15:43:36 +0100)
@psweetman	Lewis: Showing similarities & differences in usability between Microsoft browser & Google Chrome. #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 15:46:22 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Question raised as to how this HIMSS EMR model works for community, out-of-hospital, ambulatory care etc. (inc. “integrated care”?) #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 15:46:53 +0100)
@psweetman	Lewis: vendors, decision support vendors, users, usability experts all have to work together to improve alerting #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 15:55:27 +0100)
@helenmariaa	if you can teach a two year old that it’s good to share, then you can teach people that too. #information governance #IG #hc2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 15:58:53 +0100)
@IMSMAXIMS	About to start: @shanetickell presents in Room C on ?Quality and Value for money? in the #NHS @BCS #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 16:00:11 +0100)
@lettythomas	Is at #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 16:11:21 +0100)
@HarrisHlthcare	Jim Traficant, president Harris Healthcare to speak alongside deputy editor of the #Guardian at the end of day #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 16:15:01 +0100)
@helenmariaa	How do we create a healthcare service that looks after the mind and body? #hc2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 16:15:49 +0100)
@claireOT	RT @peterjmurray : NHS Information Centre (Straughan) says will move more to open data – routine publication of raw data #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 16:19:00 +0100)
@StephenBell_jge	RT @ehireporter : Intriguing study in the US by PWC shows that 1/3 of consumers use @Facebook and @Twitter to find medical advice. #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 16:24:31 +0100)
@bcs	Keynote with Michael White, deputy editor, the Guardian, starting at 17.45 under the clock on the mezzanine level #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 16:27:01 +0100)
@IMSMAXIMS	?Suppliers and healthcare provider organisations need partnerships to deliver the best for their patients? says @shanetickell @BCS #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 16:30:01 +0100)
@bcs	Jim Traficant, president @harrishlthcare to speak alongside deputy editor of the #Guardian at the end of day #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 16:30:15 +0100)
@vectafrank	Could open data be the key to organisational learning within NHS #hc2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 16:31:58 +0100)
@anniecoops	? @JoD1905 : Dame Fiona Caldicott (yes, that Caldicott) talking about the future forums’ request to review IG principles? #hc2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 16:34:34 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Well-attended session on evaluating impact of health informatics in NHS at #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 16:35:47 +0100)
@JoD1905	#hc2012 Lessons from industry – Toyota – ‘Go and see for yourself to thoroughly understand the situation’(Wed, 02 May 2012 16:39:03 +0100)
@IMSMAXIMS	?A good supplier will know where to direct you and offer advice on where to go? says @shanetickell @BCS #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 16:40:00 +0100)
@samathieson	Session on boosting use of e-discharge forms from 20% to 99%: listen to ward staff objections, then sort them. Then ban paper forms. #hc2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 16:44:03 +0100)
@IMSMAXIMS	Our CE @ShaneTickell speaking on the #NHS customer/supplier relationship @bcs #HC2012 http://t.co/C2XA86OD (Wed, 02 May 2012 16:46:18 +0100)
@IMSMAXIMS	?IT represents 1-1.5% of a trust?s budget, it enables 85% of your operation? says @shanetickell @BCS #HC2012 #NHS (Wed, 02 May 2012 16:50:00 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Can we make evaluation of health IT part of NHS routine business? – workshop question for end of the afternoon … #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 16:50:00 +0100)
@patientopinion	RT @peterjmurray : NHS Information Centre (Straughan) says will move more to open data – routine publication of raw data #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 16:51:08 +0100)
@paul_a_cooper	?Good integration with rival systems is key.? says @shanetickell #interoperability #hc2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 16:59:48 +0100)
@IMSMAXIMS	?Trusts should be demanding of their suppliers? says @shanetickell @BCS #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 17:00:14 +0100)
@JoD1905	Instant access to information vital for patient safety – Gordon Cauldwell #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 17:02:54 +0100)
@HighlandMarktng	#HC2012 freebies not as good this year, any nominations for the best? Swaying towards the @HarrisHlthcare bear! @bcs http://t.co/lcQhEcmr (Wed, 02 May 2012 17:22:41 +0100)
@peterjmurray	STARE-HI approach (Yearb Med Inform. 2009:23-31) may be useful for standardising reporting of HI evaluations, for comparison – #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 17:25:23 +0100)
@IMIAtweets	STARE-HI approach (Yearb Med Inform. 2009:23-31) may be useful for standardising reporting of HI evaluations, for comparison – #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 17:25:23 +0100)
@IMSMAXIMS	A hectic day at #HC2012 , looking forward to seeing everyone at our sponsored dinner this evening(Wed, 02 May 2012 17:30:08 +0100)
@anniecoops	RT @JoD1905 : Instant access to information vital for patient safety – Gordon Cauldwell #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 17:32:31 +0100)
@anniecoops	RT @JoD1905 : #hc2012 So many personal stories at #HC2012 – we need to keep our vision for making it better.(Wed, 02 May 2012 17:35:25 +0100)
@anniecoops	RT @ehireporter : Intriguing study in the US by PWC shows that 1/3 of consumers use @Facebook and @Twitter to find medical advice. #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 17:36:59 +0100)
@anniecoops	RT @JoD1905 : #hc2012 our role as clinicians is to sign post patients to info and help them to understand it – them using their own records(Wed, 02 May 2012 17:38:34 +0100)
@CSCHealth	@HighlandMarktng @HarrisHlthcare @bcs #HC2012 what about our luminous yo-yos?(Wed, 02 May 2012 17:39:59 +0100)
@anniecoops	MT @peterjmurray : Don’t seem 2b many people tweeting #HC2012 – so much 4social media use by healthcare/informatics professionals <~ :0((Wed, 02 May 2012 17:41:06 +0100)
@anniecoops	RT @PamNelmes007 : ? @JoD1905 : Jim Easton says health informatics will move from ‘back room’ to ‘frontline’ -great news! #HC2012 ? #SWLIP (Wed, 02 May 2012 17:41:38 +0100)
@HighlandMarktng	Wrapping up #HC2012 with the Guardian’s Michael White… http://t.co/4CTynSKW (Wed, 02 May 2012 18:06:56 +0100)
@samathieson	@michaelwhite at #hc2012 : Lansley may not be able to sell bottled water in the Sahara, but is honest and understands what he’s doing.(Wed, 02 May 2012 18:09:12 +0100)
@ShaneTickell	RT @IMSMAXIMS : Stand looking busy, come and see us #HC2012 http://t.co/bipQKKAt (Wed, 02 May 2012 18:11:15 +0100)
@ShaneTickell	RT @IMSMAXIMS : ?A good supplier will know where to direct you and offer advice on where to go? says @shanetickell @BCS #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 18:11:28 +0100)
@ShaneTickell	RT @IMSMAXIMS : Our CE @ShaneTickell speaking on the #NHS customer/supplier relationship @bcs #HC2012 http://t.co/C2XA86OD (Wed, 02 May 2012 18:11:40 +0100)
@ShaneTickell	RT @IMSMAXIMS : ?IT represents 1-1.5% of a trust?s budget, it enables 85% of your operation? says @shanetickell @BCS #HC2012 #NHS (Wed, 02 May 2012 18:11:43 +0100)
@ShaneTickell	RT @IMSMAXIMS : ?Trusts should be demanding of their suppliers? says @shanetickell @BCS #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 18:11:47 +0100)
@ShaneTickell	RT @IMSMAXIMS : A hectic day at #HC2012 , looking forward to seeing everyone at our sponsored dinner this evening(Wed, 02 May 2012 18:11:51 +0100)
@samathieson	@michaelwhite at #hc2012 : voters don’t care about structural changes to the NHS, but will want someone to blame if/when things goes wrong.(Wed, 02 May 2012 18:14:06 +0100)
@ehireporter	I’m done and dusted at #HC2012 following an interview with Wirral’s CIO Luke Readman. A good man with good ideas.(Wed, 02 May 2012 18:18:14 +0100)
@CS_News	How did day 1 of #HC2012 go for you? Did you get a chance to drop by our stand for some free coffee and a chat? Pop and see us tomorrow…(Wed, 02 May 2012 18:18:19 +0100)
@CS_News	How did day 1 of #HC2012 go for you? Did you get a chance to drop by our stand for some free coffee and a chat?… http://t.co/OZecN4U7 (Wed, 02 May 2012 18:18:23 +0100)
@samathieson	@michaelwhite at #hc2012 : summer reshuffle probably won’t see Lansley move, he was Cameron’s boss – and better to fire him near election?(Wed, 02 May 2012 18:27:51 +0100)
@rkumar	RT @ShaneTickell : RT @IMSMAXIMS : ?Trusts should be demanding of their suppliers? says @shanetickell @BCS #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 18:39:56 +0100)
@Astronurse81	@anniecoops Yes been to #HC2012 disappointed with some of my prof. collegues views on our profession!(Wed, 02 May 2012 18:58:36 +0100)
@vectafrank	Is IG part of new DHID Information Strategy #HC2012 really trying to reinvent government infosec ILx levels?(Wed, 02 May 2012 19:10:11 +0100)
@KodakDI	Latest #NHS project: Kodak scanners + EDM from @pctisolutions = savings for Riverside Surgery.Nice work! #HC2012 http://t.co/bmS04lQP (Wed, 02 May 2012 19:10:15 +0100)
@ehireporter	Plenty of Twitter interaction from you guys today, thanks in part to #HC2012 . Please keep it coming, always appreciated! #EHI #NHS (Wed, 02 May 2012 19:27:26 +0100)
@pctisolutions	A good day at #HC2012 ! Lots of great conversations around delivering paper free care! Visit stand 58 if you’re attending tomorrow.(Wed, 02 May 2012 19:27:51 +0100)
@rkumar	RT @psweetman : Lewis: often 3rd party observer can analyse clinical process better than clinician familiar with environment #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 19:30:04 +0100)
@ehireporter	And as always, for the latest news in #NHS IT, please do check out @EHealthInsider on a daily basis at http://t.co/lIiqrCRO #HC2012 (Wed, 02 May 2012 19:31:01 +0100)
@katycheema	Lovely day at #HC2012 , loads of interesting stuff and plenty of ideas. The company of the lovely Mr C a decided bonus.(Wed, 02 May 2012 20:13:33 +0100)
@rkumar	Lot of familiar faces and interesting conversations at #hc2012 ; question is how to SMEs feel about the market?(Wed, 02 May 2012 20:28:46 +0100)
@CSCHealth	Photos from #hc2012 day 1 http://t.co/tsiEOTA3 & http://t.co/Ts4Q2sOG (Wed, 02 May 2012 22:45:25 +0100)
@CSCAdrian	RT @cschealth : Photos from #hc2012 day 1 http://t.co/thgpTvfY & http://t.co/l4L7vbyr (Wed, 02 May 2012 22:50:21 +0100)
@CSCHealth_ePMA	RT @cschealth : Photos from #hc2012 day 1 http://t.co/iM3mbyBz & http://t.co/vGykSeuq (Wed, 02 May 2012 22:50:22 +0100)
@CSCHealth_Labs	RT @cschealth : Photos from #hc2012 day 1 http://t.co/mO7m7lhm & http://t.co/JsuMOpwy (Wed, 02 May 2012 22:50:23 +0100)
@CSCHealth_PC	RT @cschealth : Photos from #hc2012 day 1 http://t.co/9EnkEArd & http://t.co/4zAATfVe (Wed, 02 May 2012 22:50:24 +0100)
@CSCHealth_UKI	RT @cschealth : Photos from #hc2012 day 1 http://t.co/RAAaZMA3 & http://t.co/8vqP2SLt (Wed, 02 May 2012 22:50:25 +0100)
@CSCShaun	RT @cschealth : Photos from #hc2012 day 1 http://t.co/b4oWPXh0 & http://t.co/FDBumMD2 (Wed, 02 May 2012 22:50:26 +0100)
@DamonCorless	@DMashford #hc2012 is already in use!(Wed, 02 May 2012 23:35:02 +0100)
@calldritt	Great #HC2012 dinner tonight. Looking forward to our breakfast session tmrw: how can we make make the most of health #opendata ?(Thu, 03 May 2012 00:02:13 +0100)
@amitdhabalia	RT @ehireporter : Intriguing study in the US by PWC shows that 1/3 of consumers use @Facebook and @Twitter to find medical advice. #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 07:02:38 +0100)
@colin_jervis	Off to HC1012 in Islington this am. Why do women apply their makeup in the Tube? #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 08:27:44 +0100)
@bcs	Wondering about health innovations in China?Listen to Dr Qi Li @Harrishlthcare global medical director, stream 3,Room A,10:30 #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 08:30:00 +0100)
@PamNelmes007	RT @anniecoops : MT @peterjmurray : Don’t seem 2b many people tweeting #HC2012 – so much 4social media use by healthcare/informatics professionals <~ :0((Thu, 03 May 2012 08:37:52 +0100)
@bcs	It’s the 2nd day of #HC2012 – this morning we kick off with the opening plenary from Earl Howe at 9.30 #healthcare (Thu, 03 May 2012 08:39:49 +0100)
@IMSMAXIMS	We are not an IT company we are a #healthcare company, see what the difference is, visit stand 31 #HC2012 @BCS #NHS (Thu, 03 May 2012 08:45:00 +0100)
@bcs	Breakfast event being held in the executive centre this morning – linking primary and secondary healthcare data #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 08:48:25 +0100)
@CSCHealth	RT @bcs : It’s the 2nd day of #HC2012 – this morning we kick off with the opening plenary from Earl Howe at 9.30 #healthcare (Thu, 03 May 2012 08:57:41 +0100)
@WeareSussexHIS	#HC2012 very busy has a great vibe and people saying best conference for years, over 3K have booked to attend(Thu, 03 May 2012 09:26:44 +0100)
@JohnLMcCann	Wondering what the footfall is like at #HC2012 this year. If you’re exhibiting, do you feel you’re getting value for money? #healthit #nhs (Thu, 03 May 2012 09:31:14 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Nick Ross: are we designing for yesterday’s systems in health IT?? – maybe being provocative, but regrettably probably true #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 09:34:51 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Opening session for #HC2012 now beginning – far less full than yesterday – Lord Howe doing keynote(Thu, 03 May 2012 09:35:30 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Howe: opening keynote welcomes “vibrant market of suppliers” – bit different tone from Grainger and early days of NPunfIT #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 09:37:53 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Howe: “information strategy “due to” be published later this month #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 09:44:32 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Howe: Major lesson from NPfIT is that top-down doesn’t work – NHS must meet user needs. #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 09:44:55 +0100)
@CSCHealth	Don’t forget, to learn more or for a demo of our Lorenzo, MedChart or UltraGenda solutions please come and see us #hc2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 09:47:05 +0100)
@colin_jervis	Information strategy will be route map. Work with Intellect Group will work to produce a vibrant Healthcare IT market #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 09:52:40 +0100)
@colin_jervis	NHS strategy to be published later this month. #HC2012 Earl Howe(Thu, 03 May 2012 09:52:40 +0100)
@NigeBrokenshire	Lord Howe: information will b the heart beat of the NHS #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 09:53:14 +0100)
@peterjmurray	RT @colin_jervis : Information strategy will be route map. Work w Intellect Group will work to produce a vibrant Healthcare IT market #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 09:54:51 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Howe: NPfIT imposed national systems that could not adapt to local circumstances – shackled services with rigid/expensive contracts, #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 09:56:45 +0100)
@Belindaallen	has heard Lord Howe affirm that the role of government is to support clinicians & the frontline to innovate @ #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 10:06:39 +0100)
@InitioStudio	At #HC2012 . Re NHS IT Prog “One thing learnt is that top-down doesn’t work” (user involvement needed), Earl Howe, Dept Health.(Thu, 03 May 2012 10:08:18 +0100)
@Crowlineuk	Wow! #HC2012 a real eye opener into health informatics- how to gather info across multiple platforms- is this scale able for LINks?(Thu, 03 May 2012 10:09:22 +0100)
@colin_jervis	NICE app for guidance available and pathways available for standards via Gillian Leng #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 10:15:34 +0100)
@pctisolutions	Don’t forget to visit us at stand 58 today and see how we can help you #paperfreecare #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 10:15:50 +0100)
@colin_jervis	Business cases not an exercise in creative writing: figures are as important as words via Bob Alexander #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 10:29:09 +0100)
@Crowlineuk	If you don’t know about health informatics you don’t know about health management- nick Ross @ #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 10:32:25 +0100)
@CSCHealth_UKI	@samathieson you should send us photographic evidence! #hc2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 10:32:45 +0100)
@jonhassell	Improving accessibility for online healthcare service users -slides from UK Faculty of Health Informatics panel #hc2012 http://t.co/UVmtKxBd (Thu, 03 May 2012 10:41:13 +0100)
@samathieson	RT @colin_jervis : NHS strategy to be published later this month. #HC2012 Earl Howe(Thu, 03 May 2012 10:41:29 +0100)
@samathieson	RT @peterjmurray : Howe: Major lesson from NPfIT is that top-down doesn’t work – NHS must meet user needs. #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 10:42:20 +0100)
@ShreekantPawar	RT @jonhassell : Improving accessibility for online healthcare service users -slides from UK Faculty of Health Informatics panel #hc2012 http://t.co/UVmtKxBd (Thu, 03 May 2012 10:44:01 +0100)
@IMSMAXIMS	Missed @shanetickell ?s presentation on quality & value for money @BCS #HC2012 ? Visit Stand 31 to talk to him personally(Thu, 03 May 2012 10:45:01 +0100)
@samathieson	Kable is on stand 77 at #hc2012 for demonstrations of our healthcare market intelligence. Today’s free chocolates are Cadbury’s Heroes.(Thu, 03 May 2012 10:45:47 +0100)
@CompareSoftware	China have an approved formulary of only 300 drugs #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 10:49:49 +0100)
@CompareSoftware	Listening to dr Qi Li talking about chinas health service. Fascinating. #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 10:49:54 +0100)
@CompareSoftware	“there is no primary care in china” #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 10:51:37 +0100)
@bcs	Earl Howe speaking at #HC2012 this morning http://t.co/O55xVupx (Thu, 03 May 2012 10:54:36 +0100)
@bcs	Carefx is now @Harrishlthcare find out the opportunities for your #NHS organisation on stand 37 #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 11:00:07 +0100)
@pharmtraining	At sessions at #HC2012 -workshops on coaching and mentoring(Thu, 03 May 2012 11:02:43 +0100)
@CompareSoftware	#hc2012 shanghai have electronically linked their hospitals serving 30million people!(Thu, 03 May 2012 11:05:24 +0100)
@Crowlineuk	There must be training to access use and choose services from an array of providers #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 11:16:19 +0100)
@CompareSoftware	#hc2012 Australia are going for a national patient controlled #EHR which is on an opt in basis(Thu, 03 May 2012 11:22:04 +0100)
@CompareSoftware	#hc2012 Australia have a College of Health Informatics. Come on UK!(Thu, 03 May 2012 11:23:17 +0100)
@Crowlineuk	Q and a time for Mark Duman of http://t.co/oRPMdEZ4 #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 11:24:41 +0100)
@Crowlineuk	Patients shld have access to med records- but what do they want to see!? Ian Carpenter #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 11:31:07 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Mention of HBIR-IBES (Melbourne) work/projects at today’s presentation on Australian ehealth/informatics #HC2012 @IBESHBIR (Thu, 03 May 2012 11:45:24 +0100)
@IMIAtweets	Mention of HBIR-IBES (Melbourne) work/projects at today’s presentation on Australian ehealth/informatics #HC2012 @IBESHBIR (Thu, 03 May 2012 11:45:54 +0100)
@colin_jervis	On my mind. Nick Ross: Steve Jobs created Apple with a top down, proprietary approach. So why is the NHS devolving control? #HC2012 #in (Thu, 03 May 2012 11:46:39 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Interesting international presentations on China, Australia and New Zealand, and esp. ehealth/telehealth in latter two #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 11:49:17 +0100)
@IMSMAXIMS	How can we give patients complete control over their data??Through Da Vinci?visit us on stand 31 #NHS #HC2012 @BCS (Thu, 03 May 2012 12:00:01 +0100)
@wilhol	@colin_jervis Comparing the NHS to Apple? I don’t know where to start – it’s like comparing Apples and, um… #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 12:00:03 +0100)
@lettythomas	Is the NHS setting itself up for future probs by encouraging locally bound systems with little interoperability? More APIs needed! #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 12:10:27 +0100)
@bcs	Visit our best practice theatre at 1:20 to learn about Connecting Care: Leveraging open source and open platforms to transform care #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 12:30:05 +0100)
@samathieson	Australia planning big expansion of #telehealth with superfast A$36bn National Broadband Network (fibre to 93% of homes) #hc2012 @csironews (Thu, 03 May 2012 12:35:47 +0100)
@JonPTLindberg	#HC2012 Earl Howe, #DH says Intellect input to forthcoming info strategy ‘invaluable’ – we feel the same!(Thu, 03 May 2012 12:50:26 +0100)
@colin_jervis	Nick Ross begins pm plenary session waving an iPhone. #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 13:07:10 +0100)
@peterjmurray	John Naughton: almost no grown-up with a suit seems to understand network(ed) thinking #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 13:09:12 +0100)
@ehireporter	Back to #HC2012 I go!(Thu, 03 May 2012 13:11:03 +0100)
@lettythomas	“if you’re not failing you’re not trying hard enough’ #HC2012 motto to live by from president of Wolfson college, Cambridge(Thu, 03 May 2012 13:12:55 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Naughton: should use public tools as much as possible – should create things that are lightweight, experimental, agile #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 13:13:48 +0100)
@peterjmurray	RT @lettythomas : “if you’re not failing you’re not trying hard enough’ #HC2012 motto to live by from president, Wolfson college, Cambridge(Thu, 03 May 2012 13:15:06 +0100)
@INBIOMEDVision	RT @IMIAtweets : Mention of HBIR-IBES (Melbourne) work/projects at today’s presentation on Australian ehealth/informatics #HC2012 @IBESHBIR (Thu, 03 May 2012 13:24:54 +0100)
@HANDIhealth	Lots of people talking about apps at #HC2012 and lots of interest in #HANDI which can help anyone intrested in apps in health&care #careapps (Thu, 03 May 2012 13:31:09 +0100)
@e3intel	#HC2012 Howe: Major lesson from NPfIT is that top-down doesn’t work. NHS must meet user needs HT @peterjmurray . Quite http://t.co/fKbuHIOt (Thu, 03 May 2012 13:37:12 +0100)
@colin_jervis	Prof John Williams RCP talking on the value of shared, structured records…not sure what to write :-/ #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 13:37:50 +0100)
@KristinaCurtis	RT @HANDIhealth : Lots of people talking about apps at #HC2012 and lots of interest in #HANDI which can help anyone intrested in apps in health&care #careapps (Thu, 03 May 2012 13:45:24 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Plenary session on ‘thinking differently’ at #HC2012 – only John Naughton seemed to offer any ‘different thinking’ IMHO(Thu, 03 May 2012 13:51:35 +0100)
@colin_jervis	Nick Ross ends with a Steve Jobs quotation: do I detect a theme? #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 13:52:57 +0100)
@IMSMAXIMS	Our latest #NHS emergency department solution- a scalable, regional and national solution, come and see it on STAND 31 @BCS #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 14:00:10 +0100)
@KerryNoone	RT @CSCHealth : Don’t forget, to learn more or for a demo of our Lorenzo, MedChart or UltraGenda solutions please come and see us #hc2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 14:09:16 +0100)
@bcs	Integration.Visit Harris Healthcare stand 37 #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 14:30:07 +0100)
@paul_a_cooper	RT @peterjmurray : Plenary session on ‘thinking differently’ at #HC2012 – only John Naughton seemed to offer any ‘different thinking’ IMHO(Thu, 03 May 2012 14:47:12 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Some mismatch here – lots of talk of digital info, etc – but are being asked to complete multiple PAPER evaluation forms ….?!? #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 14:48:28 +0100)
@CSCAlan	#hc2012 show now winding down conference still vibrant with delegates in the lectures but the exhibition very quiet.(Thu, 03 May 2012 14:54:08 +0100)
@psychinformatic	RT @CompareSoftware : #hc2012 Australia have a College of Health Informatics. Come on UK!(Thu, 03 May 2012 15:00:18 +0100)
@psychinformatic	RT @CompareSoftware : #hc2012 shanghai have electronically linked their hospitals serving 30million people!(Thu, 03 May 2012 15:00:33 +0100)
@samathieson	#hc2012 talk by Dr Keith Simpson on #Renal Patient View: provides 19k NHS patients of 55 renal units with online access to results. Smart.(Thu, 03 May 2012 15:39:01 +0100)
@XiiClaudiaXii	#Throwback #HC2012 http://t.co/yWZ779Jk (Thu, 03 May 2012 15:45:18 +0100)
@samathieson	Delayed NHS information strategy ‘could mean better data linking’, says Tim Straughan @nhsic http://t.co/l5QU3tA3 @GdnGovComputing #hc2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 16:07:41 +0100)
@samathieson	How Royal Bournemouth and Chichester NHS trust got ward staff to use e-discharge system by me @GdnGovComputing http://t.co/zt0y3RHh #hc2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 16:12:04 +0100)
@IMSMAXIMS	Last chance to find out our agile solutions as well as our new ED module and Da Vinci concept @BCS #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 16:15:04 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Amir Hannan talking about ‘partnership of trust’ between patient and clinician in final ‘Question Time’ at #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 16:30:11 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Baroness Young questions whether biggest need/consumers of health information are able to access it online #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 16:33:06 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Amir Hannan – http://t.co/x4sdJBp5 has lots of useful information for patients on practice website #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 16:35:02 +0100)
@colin_jervis	RT @peterjmurray : Baroness Young questions whether biggest need/consumers of health information are able to access it online #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 16:35:51 +0100)
@InitioStudio	Excellent event #HC2012 #healthinformatics , though not that well attended considering the challenges ahead in health data and communication.(Thu, 03 May 2012 16:41:43 +0100)
@EHealthInsider	Katie Davis head of DHID says NHS has 8 maybe? out of 10 chance of becoming world class on health IT in next 5 to 10 years – #hc2012 #ehi (Thu, 03 May 2012 16:45:40 +0100)
@EHealthInsider	Panel discussion end #hc2012 underway – Tim Kelsey been talking to Hillary Clinton about Dr Amir Hannan’s patients accessing their records(Thu, 03 May 2012 16:49:20 +0100)
@EHealthInsider	Sir Muir Gray says he’d ban talk of information systems should all derive from core clinical systems #hc2012 #ehi #nhsit (Thu, 03 May 2012 16:54:45 +0100)
@MrTruth06	Jus made da phone call 2 put da Alumni Golf tourney in motion for #HC2012 @warlock7506 @ChuckConnects @Jigga_Jay_T yall betta not back out(Thu, 03 May 2012 16:59:13 +0100)
@bcs	End of HC2012, thanks to all our speakers, sponsors, exhibitors and delegates #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 17:00:08 +0100)
@peterjmurray	Muir Gray: “Portals are so 2010″ #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 17:00:59 +0100)
@EHealthInsider	Too many barriers to innovative new firms to enter NHS market says audience member at #hc2012 discussion panel(Thu, 03 May 2012 17:02:10 +0100)
@wai2k	. @muirgray plugs @NHSHackDay at #HC2012 Come just us and improve #nhsit http://t.co/AK0hRrUQ. (Thu, 03 May 2012 17:07:46 +0100)
@brownleader	Dropped into #HC2012 and came across this early intervention service for people with psychological stress http://t.co/LrfEIYl5 (Thu, 03 May 2012 17:09:04 +0100)
@griffglen	RT @peterjmurray : Amir Hannan – http://t.co/x4sdJBp5 has lots of useful information for patients on practice website #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 17:20:31 +0100)
@CompareSoftware	http://t.co/D5jaNwLD?s-view:-of-a-four-year-journey latest column for #EHI for those of you who said kind things about my last at #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 19:00:36 +0100)
@DrRadford	Too true. RT @EHealthInsider Too many barriers to innovative new firms to enter NHS market says audience member at #hc2012 discussion panel(Thu, 03 May 2012 19:35:03 +0100)
@CompareSoftware	A medal should go to Mike Sinclair for organising #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 19:49:32 +0100)
@NHSProMax	ProMax ICE our clinician efficiency system went down really well at #HC2012 . A real appetite for a systems that uses a HES core(Thu, 03 May 2012 20:01:37 +0100)
@BlackPearSw	RT @EHealthInsider : Too many barriers to innovative new firms to enter NHS market says audience member at #hc2012 discussion panel(Thu, 03 May 2012 20:07:04 +0100)
@CSCHealth	RT @bcs : End of HC2012, thanks to all our speakers, sponsors, exhibitors and delegates #HC2012 (Thu, 03 May 2012 20:07:51 +0100)
@snickp	RT @EHealthInsider : Too many barriers to innovative new firms to enter NHS market says audience member at #hc2012 discussion panel(Thu, 03 May 2012 20:09:55 +0100)
@MerielChudleigh	RT @brownleader : Dropped into #HC2012 and came across this early intervention service for people with psychological stress http://t.co/LrfEIYl5 (Thu, 03 May 2012 20:32:31 +0100)
@CommsworldMark	RT @NHSProMax : ProMax ICE our clinician efficiency system went down really well at #HC2012 . A real appetite for a systems that uses a HES core(Thu, 03 May 2012 21:19:01 +0100)
@muirgray	@wai2k @NHSHackDay #HC2012 amir hamman in full flight – genius(Thu, 03 May 2012 22:19:29 +0100)
@jarrarist	Wonderful opportunities and contacts at the #HC2012 @bcs , thanks to the @UKTI and @UKTIJordan invitation and support.(Thu, 03 May 2012 23:16:14 +0100)
@mswindells	RT @CompareSoftware A medal should go to Mike Sinclair for organising #HC2012 I’ll vote for that! #in (Fri, 04 May 2012 00:33:28 +0100)
@IBESHBIR	RT @IMIAtweets : Mention of HBIR-IBES (Melbourne) work/projects at today’s presentation on Australian ehealth/informatics #HC2012 @IBESHBIR (Fri, 04 May 2012 00:43:39 +0100)
@IBESHBIR	@peterjmurray Thanks Peter, terrific job – from #HC2012 (Fri, 04 May 2012 00:45:26 +0100)

An Experiment in the use of Social Media in Clinical OT Practice: Growing Together (2) Putting down roots

I reflected in my earlier post about my experience with a Gardening project run within my NHS Foundation Trust, in which we used digital tools including Social Media in an innovative way to further the aims of the group.

I considered the difference between the natural social networks of our service users, family and friends, and the support from various agencies- health, the voluntary sector, the local authority and education. The division we practitioners placed between the providers and agencies seemed quite unnatural to the group members. The solution to this seemed to be to improve the communication channels within and between the various groups operating.

This post is part 2 in the series giving the whole story, and today it deals with the Intranet. We wished to connect the services within our Trust, and it occurred to me that in order to facilitate conversations within the Trust related to our groups, the Staff Intranet was a good place to start.

Luckily, within our Trust we have a very approachable and helpful Information Governance lead. Without his help and support, I would never have got the sign off to even begin this project, and so to him my thanks.

After consulting with the Information Governance lead, and obtaining his consent and guidance I was able to develop an Intranet site for our project. The site was built using Sharepoint, along with the rest of our staff Intranet. It focussed on shared resources, evidence and news about gardening groups within the Trust.

Populating the site with interesting and relevant content was surprisingly easy.  I visited some local projects  that were using gardening as a therapeutic intervention, to build links and to swap ideas around social inclusion, and possible future plans for collaboration- even discussing developing social enterprises. I added reviews of these other gardening groups and developing projects within the city to the embryonic site.

I added recipes which we were using with the produce we were growing, to be used by staff, or within our “Cook and Eat” groups. These were recipes I was inspired to come up with in response to the seasonality of food were were starting to produce, and which I was assiduously storing in the freezer in the Therapy kitchen for future group work.

I added a calendar of events to the page, so that other groups around the Trust knew when similar groups were running, so that they could inform potential participants. We had a news stream, to discuss plans for planting schedules.

Our network was growing- with this resource, I was able to develop links between the different services around the Trust. I visited some other sites to make them aware of the work, and developed close links with some of the other projects working in similar ways. Each project was developed into a sub-site, so that they had their own area to show off content they produced- which I anticipated would be photographs, news, and calendar events.

I added in contact details for individuals prepared to take a lead on the gardening projects in each area of the Trust and geographical areas of the city, so that there was a clear path to follow if viewers wished to refer people onto a suitable project in their locality.

I was still concerned that we weren’t able to respond to the request from our service users to enable them to share their progress within their natural social networks. I was also aware that our partner organisations within the Voluntary sector had no access to the resource on the Intranet that had been created.

Please see my next post for details of how the project progressed, where I took the skills and confidence developed though the use of Sharepoint and applied them to Social Media.