Author: Tony Blacker
Saying why
In our organisation we are now two and a half months in to the rollout of our ‘Paperlite’ programme under the Global Digital Exemplar Programme body of work. From this we have moved a huge swathe of our paper-based processes on to the computer (It’s a start!) and have started to practise like we have a true Electronic Health Record. As I was told at the start of my Informatics journey by my then CCIO, Dr Rob Allcock: “All improvement requires change, but not all change is improvement”.
Topol Digital Fellowship Cohort 4 to start their programme in April
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Topol Digital Fellowships: Cohort 3 attend their closing conference
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Digital Health Leadership Programme Cohort 5 applications
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Health Education England allocates 10 free places on the Topol Fellowship programme’s ‘Machine Learning in Service Design and Delivery’ course
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The Topol Review two years on: Roundtable discussions
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British Association of Dermatologists partner with HEE Topol fellowships
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Am I digitally literate enough? A guide for the average UK healthcare worker
I have spent the last year asking people the same question: how digitally literate does the average healthcare worker need to be?
TRUST: Transforming Rheumatology Using Sustainable Technology applying a ‘Theory of Change’ model
TRUST is an absolutely vital commodity in healthcare. It is also an acronym for Transforming Rheumatology Using Sustainable Technology, the title of my fourth blog post as a Topol Digital Fellow.
Why choose to do the Fellowship?
I was moved today to reflect on some of my learning from my time in and outside the Fellowship over the last seven months, and especially over the last month.