Dr Jeremy Wyatt FRCP, the newly established Leadership chair in eHealth Research in Leeds*, has joined the Health Informatics Unit (HIU) as the lead for a new technologies programme.
His research explores the use of evidence and new models of care to innovate in clinical practice and self care, and evaluating its impact. Jeremy’s career in health informatics has included directing the Health Informatics Centre at Dundee University, R&D director at NICE and visiting professor in the Department of Primary Care in Oxford. He was the first UK Fellow elected by the American College of Medical Informatics and is the third most cited researcher in his field worldwide.
Jeremy’s role in the HIU will be to provide strategic leadership on the appropriate use of new information and communications technologies. ‘New technologies’ include mobile phone/tablet applications (‘apps’), telehealth, decision support systems and social media. The programme will identify how these new technologies can support both the profession and the hospitals of the future to deliver increased productivity and efficiency while maintaining safe, high quality, patient care.
Through mapping stakeholders and gaining an understanding of their needs, the new programme will develop and promote quality standards for the new technologies; whilst continuing to explore and make recommendations about governance, clinical practice and safety in the use of these technologies.
The programme will ensure that new standards are evidence- and consensus-based by championing rigorous evaluation studies and systematic reviews and working with the wide network of Royal Colleges and other professional bodies engaged in the record standards work of the HIU.
For further information, vist the HIU pages, or contact Hannah Bristow, Clinical Standards communications officer, on +44 (0)20 3075 1447 / 07584 303 784 or email Hannah.Bristow@rcplondon.ac.uk
*Dr Jeremy Wyatt was previously Professor of e-Health Innovation in Warwick.