Discusses the components for successful innovation and its adoption and/or scalability into other healthcare contexts/organisations.
CIF Category: Leading Informatics Teams & Projects
Project management methodologies
Has awareness of project management and change management methodologies, tools and techniques considering factors (e.g., team-working and governance, resources, project planning, business cases, monitoring and reporting) and is able to apply them to informatics projects/programmes.
Multi-disciplinary team working
Promotes open, transparent information sharing and multi-disciplinary team working to solve clinical informatics challenges through effective communication, development of a supportive network and the recognition of individual and team achievements to increase visibility of individuals and required skills for completion of informatics projects.
Training
Defines the needs for good quality training in informatics and knows how informatics can facilitate research and improve digital literacy to be able to embed and increase the knowledge across healthcare professionals and other informaticians.
Role diversity
Has awareness of different roles of people working in informatics and the knowledge and skills they should have and is able to identify how they can contribute to the successful delivery of an informatics project/programme through collaborative working.
Project planning
Is able to contribute to project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of informatics projects, ensuring that programme/project goals remain aligned to clinical and operational objectives where appropriate, to increase project/programme success.
Project risk
Is able to recognise when an informatics project/programme is not going according to plan, and can appraise benefits, risks for continuation, change of direction or stopping, and can communicate these through appropriate governance structures.
Project communications
Adapt an appropriate communication style to be able to distil information to deliver key messages to address a range of audiences and stakeholders (e.g., organisational boards, project teams, other healthcare professionals).
Stakeholder influence
Have awareness of stakeholders influencing development and funding of clinical informatics projects and/or programmes at local or national level.
Strategic and financial planning
Creates and assesses strategic, implementation and financial plans for clinical and health information systems to ensure increase chances of a successful deployment.
Resource allocation
Justifies allocation of resources to informatics for service redesign to improve delivery of health and social care and patient safety