Group recommends development of a workforce of trained clinician-informaticists with appropriate resources and authority An advisory group chaired by Robert Wachter, M.D., a professor and interim chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, has made 10 recommendations to the National Health Service (NHS) in England on how to move forward implementing digital health technology. One recommendation is setting an ambitious goal of 2023 for having robust clinical information systems implemented across NHS with a high degree of interoperability. Another is the development of a workforce of trained clinician-informaticists with appropriate resources and authority.
An ambitious British program to digitize healthcare – the National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT), launched in 2002 – was shut down in 2011 after having mostly failed to achieve its goals, the advisory group’s report notes. In late 2015, the National Advisory Group on Health Information Technology in England was formed to advise the Department of Health and NHS England on its efforts to digitize the “secondary care system.” The advisory group led by Dr. Wachter had strong representation from the United States, including For the full article click here
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