Explaining the detailed information models, which express cardinality and other business rules, values including relevant code sets (SNOMED CT), and the relationship between different sections and data fields.

Two nurses were recently cleared of wilfully neglecting patients in a specialist stroke unit; they had risked going to prison. The problem these two innocent nurses experienced could have happened to anyone in any hospital.

Professor John Williams, Director of the RCP’s Health Informatics Unit (HIU), discusses Patients Association and APPG report on care.data

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and British Society for Gastroenterology (BSG) announce the joint appointment of Professor Jonathan Brown to the role of informatics lead for gastroenterology in the Health Informatics Unit (HIU) at the RCP

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.

The director and associate director of the RCP’s Health Informatics Unit, both welcome the publication today of the DH Information Strategy.

A new Discharge Summary Implementation Toolkit is being launched today, 25 July 2011

Responding to the recent National Audit Office report on the delivery of detailed care records, the directors of the Royal College of Physicians’ (RCP) Health Informatics Unit (HIU) agree that the delivery of a central system for care records is not achievable. Instead, Professors John Williams a