Post on 12-Apr-2017
Allied Health Identifying our voice: can you hear us?
Rebecca George Occupational Therapist
Clinical Lead - Allied Health Informatics
Take a walk with me…
Alcohol and Drug Clinicians
Audiologists Dental Therapists Dietitians Genetic Associates Needs Assessors Occupational Therapists Optometrists Orthoptists Psychotherapy
Physiotherapy Play Specialists Pharmacists Pharmacy Technicians Podiatrists Psychologists Social Workers Speech Language
Therapists Visiting
Neurodevelopmental Therapists
What do we do? Rehabilitate We enable Provide connections Maintain their health status
How do we do this?
Focus on the patient’s needs Strongly collaborative Broad perspective of patient journey
Our significance We enable the patient in their situation
Reduce health service need
We create safe living situationsMaintain patients in their communities
Our significance
We facilitate their potential Increase their participation in daily activities
We support their healthy statusReduce risks at home, work, in the community
If we benefit the patient then we reduce the service need. If we solely benefit the service then are we perpetuating the patient’s need?
Helping us to help you
Clarity Greater coordination Efficacy
Making the most of Allied Health Correlation of prior AH input to
readmissions Positive and negative
Correlation between patient flow and AH input Service demand, timing, activity type
Correlation between demographics and community AH service access
“There isn’t someone else in a room who will do this for us,…AHPs must be in the race too…[we need to] set informatics and technology right back center stage of clinical practice”.
Middleton K, 2012.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ4Ks_rhacw
Internationally
InternationallyScotlandEnglandWalesAustralia
Nationally Ground up Approach Focus on:
Activity contentCase weightingCasemix
Nationally
What are we trying to achieve? Engagement via ownership
Create a platform for comparative data
Give visibility to staff and services‘right person, right time, right place, right intervention’
Facilitate quality measures
What are the challenges?
Engagement with key stakeholders
Collection of data - ‘A01’ Integration – ‘passive data
extraction’ Relevant reporting at all levels
To benefit the patient we need the information
Enhancing scope Consistency Availability
Peate I, 2015
Can you hear us?
We are... Essential to effective Patient care Different and distinct Valuable contributors to Informatics Keen to use data to improve Patient’s
journey