Health Alerts for locum General Practitioners

Another of my MSc Essay’s involved describing a potential informatics resource that might improve health care within the setting I worked.

A system for distribution of health and administrative alerts from Health Boards to locum (and other) General Practitioners

I went on to develop this resource and evaluate it for my MSc Project.

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Heuristic comparison of prescribing module/functions of GPASS and VISION General Practice Clinical Systems

Another one of my Health Informatics MSc essays; this one is on computer interface usabilty:

This paper provides a comparative discussion of the prescribing interfaces of GPASS and InPractice VISION General Practice Clinical systems, using the “Discount Usability Engineering Approach”. Prescribing scenarios are investigated using a heuristic approach to cover typical tasks in every day . . . → Read More: Heuristic comparison of prescribing module/functions of GPASS and VISION General Practice Clinical Systems

Policies and Provisions for Healthcare Informatics in Scotland and the Electronic Patient Record

I produced this essay as part of the MSc I was doing in Health Informatics; the introduction/summary is below:

This report will consider the topic of healthcare informatics and the electronic patient record from a Scottish perspective. Section 2 reviews current and future strategies for healthcare informatics for the National Health Service in Scotland (NHS . . . → Read More: Policies and Provisions for Healthcare Informatics in Scotland and the Electronic Patient Record