Developing Information Skills and Capability (DISC); for safer care and effective decision making. Presentation delivered by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) at the Healthcare Efficiency Through Technology (HETT) Expo - Oct 2013. Content: • Developing Informatics Skills and Capability – what the DISC team does • The Health Informatics Career Framework • Professional registration with UKCHIP

1. Developing Informatics Skills and
Capabilities (DISC)
For safer care and decision making
Healthcare Efficiency Through Technology Expo (HETT):
October 2013

2. Overview - Our core offers and skills
• Informatics Capability Development
– Developing the HI profession and supporting profession registration
– Developing policy and strategy propositions
– HI Career development support
– Developing HI qualifications, apprenticeships, e-learning
• Clinical Informatics Capability Development
– National guidance - informatics for clinicians
– eICE e-learning materials via web and mobile apps
– Clinical informaticians’ revalidation and assurance
– CCIO development
• Supporting Collaboration, Engagement and the Exchange of Best Practice
– Webinars, online communities of practice, e-bulletins
– ‘A forum for National sharing of what works in Local health and caring’
• Tailored Workforce Development and OD support
– ‘Appraisal of Support Requirements for Patient Online Access’ Jan 2012
– ‘RCGP Patient Online Road Map’ Autumn 2012
– North West Informatics Skills Development Network model for culture change
– Leadership development and professionalisation of informatics

3. Development of Informatics Workforce and Profession
• Building professional specialist capability in information
management and ICT
- Career pathways, workforce planning
- Qualifications framework
- Apprenticeships and qualifications
- Graduate management training scheme
- CCIO career and capability development
- Culture change
- Developing Bioinformatics (HI) with HCS
• Benefits: safer, more efficient information and IT systems;
more effective patient services; better data quality and
evidence-based planning, commissioning and decision-making;
supports information-enabled health and care
systems; supports data quality programmes and
commissioning processes, person-centred care; supports
effective leadership, accountability and positive culture
change.
• Potential: build one profession across health, public health
and social care; re-focus on support for data quality
improvement , information and intelligence analysis and
communication; facilitate raising awareness of value and
importance of information analysis capabilities for robust
clinical and business https://www.hicf.org.uk decision making by Boards

4. Professional Registration
• Voluntary regulation to improve standards
• Public register of HI specialists
• Standards for
– education
– competence
– conduct
• Promoting the HI profession
• Recommended by HSCIC and NHS England
Leading the Profession: Protecting Patients: Improving Care