School of Computing
Philip Scott awarded research grant.
Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:44:00 GMT
Review of evidence base for informatics improvements in health and social care service delivery
The UK Faculty of Health Informatics (UKFHI) is a consortium of academics and practitioners funded by the Department of Health. In 2008-9 and 2009-10 it has offered a series of modest research grants. Dr Philip Scott of the Centre for Healthcare Modelling and Informatics in the School of Computing has just been awarded Grant No. 2 in the 2009-10 scheme.
The aim of the grant is twofold:
- To identify and report at least two specific examples of the practical benefit of informatics in various domains of health and social care in the UK
- To make recommendations about how the informatics evidence base can be improved in content and disseminated more widely and effectively.
The output of the project will be a report presented at the Clinical Informatics Knowledge Sharing Marketplace event in Bristol on 25 March 2010. A final version of the report will be published in the UKFHI research repository and may be developed into a paper for submission for peer-reviewed publication.