NHS Pathology IT Projects A putative road map

NHS Pathology IT Projects A putative road map

Path IT Projects • Currently there are many Path IT projects running inside and outside Cf. H • This slide pack tries to gather these together and to show the links between them • If you wish to update this with new projects or corrections please do so and return the file to r. g. jones@leeds. ac. uk

A first pass attempt to summarize the relationships (real and potential) Laboratory Handbook Best Practice Lab. Test Online Order Comms Benchmarking Core Standardised Datasets Blood Tracking Lab to Lab POCT Harmony

How to pull all this together • Need a concerted & collaborative effort to : – Define a functional architecture – Set standards at all levels – Build the core service components – Implement them at National / Global scale • Requires : – Leadership – Resources – New Skills

N-Tier Conceptual Architecture End User Functions Order Comms EHR Support Planning Contracting Laboratory Handbooks Performance Management Business Services Order & Results Lab 2 Lab Contracting Benchmarking Knowledge Support Foundation Data Services Data Management Result Repositories Service Catalogues Knowledge Sets Data Architecture Data Standards Data Models Metadata Models Rule Models

Project: Harmony • Sponsor: DH Pathology Action Learning project • Leader: Jonathan Berg, Jonathan. Berg@swbh. nhs. uk • Contact: Kath Sidoli, kath@sidoli. com • Focus: standards • Needs: – Service catalogues

Project: Lab to Lab • • • Sponsor: DH Leader: Rick Jones r. g. jones@leeds. ac. uk Contact: www. ychi. leeds. ac. uk/lab 2 lab Focus: Sample transfer between labs Needs: – Agreed standards – HL 7, Test codes – Service catalogue

Project: Order Communications for GPs • Sponsor: Joint DH / NHS CFH • Leader: Ian Barnes • Contact: Vicki Gledhill, Pathology Programme Manager, NHS CFH vickigledhill@nhs. net • Focus: To learn how to best implement order communications into primary care • Needs: – National Pathology Catalogue – Local Directory of Services (PCT/GP-based)

Project: National Laboratory Handbook • • Sponsor: ? ? Cf. H / Knowledge Service Leader: Rick Jones r. g. jones@leeds. ac. uk Link: www. laboratorymedicine. nhs. uk Focus: Lab Handbooks / Service catalogues • Needs: – Standards

Project: National Pathology Catalogue • Sponsor: NHS CFH • Leader: Vicki Gledhill, Pathology Programme Manager, NHS CFH, vickigledhill@nhs. net • Contact: John Ironmonger, john. ironmonger@Systemc. com • Focus: Building a National 'Orderable Items' catalogue for Pathology with SNOMED CT • Needs: Endorsement from professional bodies: – – Royal College of Pathologists Royal College of GPs Association of Clinical Pathologists Terminology Group of the NHS Data Standards and Products Directorate

Project: DOAS Poct • • • Sponsor: DH Leader: Gilbert Weiringa Link: Focus: POCT testing in community Needs: – Messages – IT standards

Project: Primary Care Benchmarking • • • Sponsor: DH Leader: Keele University (Helen Ogden) Link: www. ychi. leeds. ac. uk/benchmarking Focus: Primary care clinical benchmarks Needs: – Service catalogues – Standards – HL 7 messages

Project: Clinical Best Practice • • • Sponsor: Cross association : Cf. H, RCPath, ACP, ACB Leader: Stuart Smellie Link: Stuart Smellie Stuart. Smellie@cddft. nhs. uk Focus: Definition of best practice for laboratory use Needs: – – Standards Dissemination channel Web site under construction ? ? Cf. H - Knowledge Service http: //cks. library. nhs. uk/knowledgeplus/tests_of_the_week

Project: Labtest Online • Sponsor: ACB / Cf. H / others • Leader: ACB www. acb. org. uk Stephen Halloran editor@labtestsonline. org. uk • Link: http: //www. labtestsonline. org. uk/ • Focus: Knowledge for patients • Needs: – Possible links to service catalogues – Dissemination links

Project: Blood Banking • • • Sponsor: ? ? SDO Leader: Jonathan Kay Link: Focus: Best practice in blood tracking Needs:

Project: West Midlands Lab to Lab electronic communication • • Sponsor: Department of Health Leader: Kath Sidoli kath@sidoli. com Link: Focus: Improving electronic communication between labs • Needs: – – Possible nationally shared/endorsed solution? Investment in systems/IT? Organisational sign up More work at national level to achieve buy in/ cost benefits analysis, – Review of potential improvement to quality

Project: Google Groups – NHS Order Comms • • Sponsor: None – free standing user group Leader: Fiona Wulf fiona. wulf@somerset. nhs. uk Link: http: //groups. google. com/group/nhs-order-comms Focus: This is a restricted group for NHS staff who wish to share their journey's past, present, and future, of procuring, configuring, testing, piloting & implementing Order Communications for pathology requesting by GP Practices and/or Hospitals. • Needs: Links to other projects

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