Knows about hierarchies of evidence and appropriately applies them to evaluate informatics interventions.
CIF Category: Health & Wellbeing in Practice
Methodology defence
Defends methodologies and approach for a defined clinical informatics proposal and/or project.
Clinical concepts & language
Uses clinical, social, biomedical (including genomics) terminology, language and abbreviations appropriately when contributing to informatics projects and programmes to be able to facilitate accurate and appropriate communication across clinical informatics projects and/or teams.
Research governance
Understands research governance frameworks and guidance to ensure that informatics research projects/programmes are conducted to the appropriate standards including safeguarding of safety, wellbeing and rights
Main components
Understands the main components (including clinical audit, clinical risk management, quality assurance, clinical effectiveness and staff development) of the clinical governance framework.
Monitoring and implementation
Understands how informatics can assist in the monitoring and implementation of healthcare services and standards.
Clinical audit
Be able to use data and information effectively in clinical audit to identify service improvements
Care delivery models
Demonstrates an understanding of the UK care delivery models, organisations and governance involved across the care pathway and their inter-relationships (e.g., GP practices, hospitals, ambulance services, care homes, community services) and how they influence the delivery of informatics projects/programmes.
Information systems
Can identify and address the challenges related to using information systems in the health and social care sector for health care and/or research.
Initiatives, drivers and constraints
Is aware of the latest initiatives, drivers and constraints affecting health and social care planning and service delivery to make sure that informatics plans are shaped accordingly.
Resources, information flow and quality metrics
Demonstrates knowledge of how resources, information flow and quality metrics are used through the UK Health System structure, administration and services (e.g., healthcare planning, service commissioning, delivery of health, social care and pharmacy)
Social determinants of health
Demonstrates knowledge about the social determinants of health (e.g., environment, socio-economic, genetics), and their influence on the delivery of healthcare and informatics services and work
Health policies
Recognise how UK and international health and social care policies can change and how they impact on system and organisational informatics delivery, strategies and plans.
Clinical and business processes
Shows knowledge of clinical and business processes, indicators and reported outcomes for healthcare delivery and systems management and their role in the quality assurance of healthcare.
Informatics strategies
Has knowledge of the UK and international informatics strategy landscape including which organisations develop and deliver them, their similarities and differences and the stakeholders involved in influencing and/or funding them, and how they influence your informatics priorities, strategies and work.
Informatics in health
Has awareness of the role of health informatics and information systems in the health and social care systems, and understands lessons learned from previous programmes to prevent replicating mistakes, promote best practice and ensure improvement of future informatics project implementations for healthcare practice and/or research.
Searches and literature appraisal
Is able to perform searches and critically appraise literature to support evidence-based decision making.