What is HICAT?
The Health Informatics Clinical Advisory Team (HICAT) works across the complete healthcare spectrum ensuring that the people of the North West enjoy better care, better health and a better life, through the innovative and efficient use of Information Technology.
Guide to HICAT Principles
- Ensure that the North West leads the country in terms of setting a regional structure of expert clinicians for championing the use of Information Technology
- Engage and empower clinicians to enable them to play a central role in the development and deployment of IT Systems and solutions
- Assess and promote the piloting and implementation of 'new to the market' Information Technology
- Reduce the IT related bureaucratic and administrative mess that clinicians find themselves in
- Ensure organisations use systems that are inter-operable e.g. systems can integrate with other systems
- Ensure that Health Informatics is embedded into the undergraduate and postgraduate medical curriculums
- Put patients at the heart of Health Informatics by empowering, educating and enabling them to make informed decisions about their own health, through accessing personal and clinical information
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