How can directors of informatics support people driven digital? #NYHDFpeople

How can directors of informatics support people driven digital? #NYHDFpeople

by | Nov 8, 2015 | #PdDigital15, NHS stuff | 2 comments

How can NHS directors of informatics support and enable people driven digital innovation? This is a question Sue Sibbald and I will be speaking to when we present to the Northern, Yorkshire and Humberside Directors of Informatics Forum this Friday. In our work at mHabitat we have found the top five practical barriers to digital innovation that fall within the domain of informatics directors are: Staff equipped with mobile devices Sufficient bandwidth to access the web Public wifi in all health and care settings A permissive approach to social media (not blocking channels such as YouTube) Access to online patient held records and interoperability with third party apps. The other big barrier we have found is the variable confidence of health and care staff to make use of digital tools and the Internet in their day to day front line work and professional development – the above list will provide the right backdrop but culture and confidence is mostly an organisational development issue. Here is our draft presentation which features feedback from #PdDigital15: Sue and I are keen to crowdsource your priorities for directors of informatics in enabling people driven digital. Whether you’re someone who accesses health and care services, a practitioner, or simply someone with an interest in the topic, we’d love to hear your views. Please comment on this blog or tweet us using the hashtag #NYHDIFpeople. We’ll adapt our presentation to incorporate your feedback...
What I love about Twitter – crowdsourcing

What I love about Twitter – crowdsourcing

by | Mar 9, 2013 | What I love about Twitter | 7 comments

In my experience social media evokes strong reactions in people whose primary reference point is their teenager posting Facebook status updates at the dinner table, in preference to polite conversation with their parents. So when I give presentations about social media to colleagues (particularly senior managers who are dealing day-in-day out with limited resources, meeting targets, responding to incidents, managing disciplinaries and so on) I always try to start where they are, what is important to them, and how social media might be able to help them. We often come back to the fundamental point – like it or not, social media is here, so we need to understand and engage. If I am overly zealous in my promotion of social media, I know I run the risk of further alienating people whose starting point is already fairly sceptical. But sometimes I do just have a strong desire to say ‘this is what I absolutely love about Twitter!’ and I had one of those moments last night when I crowdsourced information about mental health mood monitoring apps after an email request from a clinician. What I love is that within moments I had some information and links to apps; a colleague had been in touch to say they were looking at developing one in their service and could we discuss; it was re-tweeted, and others got in touch to see if I could send any information to them (which I did); and a few lovely people even offered to road-test a few of the apps to see how well they worked. And I had some enjoyable conversations along the...