Category: Open Health Informatics
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First cityEHR User Group Meeting
The first cityEHR User Group Meeting was held at St Edmund Hall, Oxford on Friday 19th September 2013 as part of the XML Summer School which was running at the college all week. The meeting was attended by representative from all three NHS pilot sites – Chelsea and Westminster, Nottingham University Hospitals and Oxford University…
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Ponseti System Wins Innovation Award
The Ponseti Database system has won a Directors’ Den Innovation Award at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust. The Ponseti method is used to treat children born with club foot and the unit at Chelsea and Westminster is one of the leading centres for ttreatment in the UK. The Ponseti Database is designed to collate clinical…
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Presentation at the ITCH conference (Victoria, BC)
A proposal was submitted for a paper titled ‘Clinician-led development of electronic healthcare record systems’ authored by Professor John Chelsom and Naveed Dogar (both City University London). The Paper was accepted and presented at the Information Technology and Communications in Healthcare (ITCH) 2013 Conference in Victoria, British Columbia. The Ponseti clinic system at Chelsea and…
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Workshop at the ITCH conference (Victoria, BC)
The 2013 International ITCH (Information Technology and Communications in Healthcare) conference took place in Victoria, Canada from 21st to 23rd February. A hands on workshop demonstrated the ontology driven configuration of EHR systems using the CityEHR toolkit. All attendees were handed a portable version of CityEHR on a USB stick, and all were successfully able…
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Presentation at the 5th International Clubfoot Conference 2012 (Manchester, UK)
The project undertaken at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital UK aims to streamline the current paper-based practices in the Ponseti Clinic. The vision is to capture the maximum number of clubfoot patients (nationally) to monitor and report progress and success of the Ponseti casting treatment. The database based on the cityEHR toolkit will act as…
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e-Health and Telemed 2011 at the Royal Society of Medicine (London, UK)
The CityEHR toolkit was demonstrated at the e-Health and Telemedicine conference at the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), London. The Ponseti Portal project at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital was used for feature demonstration. The basic design and modeling process was outlined to the attendees and much interest was generated about the expandability and integration options…
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Evaluation of cityEHR toolkit through development of an open-source departmental system
Naveed Dogar has completed her MSc in Health Informatics at City University, London with the examination of her final project thesis entitled “Evaluation of cityEHR toolkit through development of an open-source departmental system”. The full text of her thesis is available online. Naveed’s project was an evaluation of the first full implementation of a cityEHR…
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Open Source Health Informatics (UK) Conference
The British Computer Society Open Source Specialist Group held a one-day conference on open source health informatics on 27th October 2010. The event was well attended and sparked some lively discussion. Prof John Chelsom presented an overview of Open Health Informatics – see the slides here. It was interesting that the audience generally seemed to…
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Open Health Informatics – Challenge Paper
At a time when the NHS is facing radical change and is seeking opinions on how to push back on the centralised approach to IT that has been adopted since 2003, this Challenge Paper is designed as a proposal for a fresh approach to NHS IT. We welcome responses, or indeed counter-challenges, to its content.…