Competency information
Details
Carry out an initial assessment of a local IT-based clinical system for compliance with safety and security best practice.
Considerations
- How and why information technology is able to support clinical practice and new ways of working.
- Examples of functionality of commonly used clinical systems and applications.
- Advantages and disadvantages of patient-focused versus specialty-, procedure- or disease-focused systems.
- Emerging information and communications technologies and their application in health.
- Awareness of clinical systems errors/reliability (e.g. transfer of data between platforms, data entry errors).
- Risks and issues associated with digital health information/records/systems and mitigating actions.
- Critical appraisal skills.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 6 | Outcome Perform a review of a local clinical IT system for patient safety and security compliance. |