Information management and information technology
Information management and technology (IM&T) continues to revolutionise the delivery of health and social care. We are committed to supporting you meet the challenges the IM&T agenda presents.
Use this section of the site to find out more about current IM&T developments. Other pages provide a helpful collection of resources to support your needs and articulate the CSP view on the issues that will affect you. Initiatives which can bring benefits to health care delivery, management and the patient experience will be explained and demystified.
Benefits and challenges - the impact of the IM&T agenda
Information technology is revolutionising the delivery of health and social care, by facilitating seamless sharing of information that is accessible throughout the care pathway. It also has the potential to minimise duplication of effort, and improve clinical decision-making thereby delivering improvements to patient safety.
Inevitably the roll out of new clinical systems and electronic patient records will impact on how services are designed, delivered, and how information about the patient is captured and shared across health and social care. It is important that physiotherapists become part of the design and implementation team for new systems. There is then an opportunity to work with suppliers to influence the design of functionality so it suits modern patient care, and facilitates good physiotherapy practice, management and research, as well as good joint working and integrated service delivery, removing the need for duplication of information.
Other challenges in this arena include the need for high quality business and management information, to prove services are meeting national waiting time targets, and to aid making a business case for physiotherapy services to budget holders. Physiotherapists need the skills to be able to capture and utilise business critical information for this purpose.
CSP Information Management and Technology (IM&T) Group
The CSP Information Management and Technology (IM&T) group was established to:- ensure there is strategic input to all national IM&T initiatives and programmes
- provide a focus for CSP members to engage and fully participate in IM&T
- provide timely information on related IM&T matters to physiotherapists at all levels
- provide a forum to influence the development of new datasets/information systems/standards
- establish a reference group for members sitting on national advisory groups across the UK
- promote IM&T as core to both pre and post education and CPD
- identify and communicate good practice in IM&T.
The group consists of both members working in information management and technology roles in health, and members working in a clinical or management role who have an interest in how information management and technology can deliver improved patient care. The group is accountable to the CSP Professional Practice & Service Delivery sub-committee. Members of this group moderate the 'Clinical Information Management' InteractiveCSP network.
CSP Information Management and Technology Strategy
The group has now produced an IM&T strategy for the CSP, and a number of resources to support members in this area. See the following CSP publications for further information:Clinical Information Management InteractiveCSP network
The member only InteractiveCSP website has a network devoted to e-health, and clinical and business information management issues. The 'Clinical Information Management' network provides a forum for members to exchange information, discuss issues, hear about relevant news, and search for relevant websites and documents in this area.
The network intends to cover all aspects of the health information agenda, some examples being:
- the rollout of clinical systems & the implications for practice
- the use of clinical terminology in clinical systems & patient records
- record keeping standards in the electronic environment
- consent to hold & access electronic patient records
- developing & using datasets to demonstrate the value of physiotherapy
- collection of management information to meet the challenges of service redesign, waiting time initiatives, commissioning, & financial reforms
- telemedicine developments & the impact on local service redesign
- developing information/knowledge management & IT competencies across the workforce
- information governance e.g. data protection, freedom of information issues
For further information, and to register to use the 'Clinical Information Management' network please visit the InteractiveCSP website: www.interactivecsp.org.uk
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