Competency information
Details
Apply information governance principles and best practice in the workplace, including confidentiality.
Considerations
- The legislation, regulatory guidance and NHS protocols regarding the security, confidentiality and appropriate sharing of patient identifiable information.
- Role of the Caldicott Guardian.
- The different arrangements and the associated responsibilities of clinical staff for security of all types of clinical information, especially electronically held, and for using such data for ‘secondary’ purposes.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome Recommend and justify a system design plan and procurement approach to an informatics lead. |
| # 2 | Outcome Perform a system requirements-gathering exercise, develop a specification of requirements and present findings in a functional requirement document to all stakeholders. |
| # 3 | Outcome Critically appraise a systems design/development plan to determine suitability of existing services. |
| # 4 | Outcome Select and apply systems development methodologies to a range of projects in the workplace, including at least one in a healthcare science setting. |
| # 5 | Outcome Review the flow of information between systems and across organisational boundaries and identify how an existing (recent) project has improved outcomes. |
| # 6 | Outcome Review or develop the requirements across an organisational enterprise architecture. |