Dr Bruce McKenzie is now available for freelance consultancy as a clinical knowledge architect, addressing the unmet need for usable knowledge resources at the point-of-care in UK general practice. General practitioners (GPs) make more decisions in a day than a typical business executive, and these decisions cost not just money but potentially lives. It's challenging work, and you can but hope your decisions are based on good information. The problem is information overload and access to what you need when you need it: there's just too much and it's too hard to find in the context of a 10 minute consultation. As a GP for 10 years I can relate to this. I also have informatics knowledge and experience, and this puts me in a position to offer you solutions that are built the way a doctor would design them.
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As previously raised, there are many competing guidelines (NICE, NSF, PCT, etc.) and formularies (Clinical Terms, prescribing) that clinicians must take account of at the point-of-care. Most clinical systems used in British general practice offer templates to prompt data entry and pick-list formularies for prescribing and coding, but these only go so far. How can a practice take account of this competing management advice to streamline and standardize patient care? The answer, somewhat paradoxically, may be to produce another guideline...
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From a primary care viewpoint, a summary of NHS IT strategy from Jan 2001 to April 2004, outlining the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) and the implications of the New GMS Contract...
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A potted history of NHS IT strategy up to December 2000, prior to the New GMS contract and the National Programme for IT (NPfIT)...
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