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Clinical Knowledge PublisherOverview and Demonstration
Sandra Davies, Senior Information Manager,
Knowledge Services Group
November 2012
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Background and context
• Developed alongside NHS Tayside through local clinical and eHealth engagement and partnership with NES Knowledge Services
• Problem: NHS Tayside wanted to make it much easier for busy clinicians to create and locate clinical pathways, guidelines and protocols in a consistent and reliable way
• ITT issued November 2011 – Bluebay CT awarded contract to produce system
• Currently being pilotted in NHS Tayside with 6 clinical pathways groups
• Training cascaded via Improvement and eHealth teams
• NES Knowledge Services now seeking new partners to pilot system as part of Knowledge into Action actionable knowledge workstrands
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What is the Clinical Knowledge Publisher?
A web-based system that allows logged-in users to:
• Design and publish clinical pathways and guidelines documents
• Link items together, e.g. linking from a pathway to a guideline recommendation, web links, resources from The Knowledge Network, or piece of freetext
• Apply metadata and taxonomy to pathways and guidelines at a general and granular level, for consistent description and to optimise information retrieval
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Demonstration
• Registration and log-in
• Designing a pathway
• Linking to related information
• Applying metadata and taxonomy
• Preview pathway
• Roles and permissions
• Other admin functionality:
– Creating custom styles
– Customise link categories
– Customise node styles
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Log-in box
Username = email address
Password = something of user’s choice
New registration link
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New account form
Submitted to System Administrator for approval
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Logged-in
“Documents” dashboard – search or browse for
documents that you have permissions to access
Menu bar
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Use Properties to apply an item style to a particular node to designate something – in
this case “red alert”
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Applying an Item Style.
These are customisable by
Administrator
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Use Link to link whole pathway or
bits of pathway to supporting information
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Activates Link Manager
Apply different types of linked information: guidelines, urls, free text, pathways, resources from Knowledge Network
Organise in categories, configurable at Health
Board level
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Linking to a piece of text and associating with “Information
Category”
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Linking to a resource from Knowledge Network and associating with Knowledge Network category
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Search for a resource from Knowledge Network in real-time
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When a piece of linked information is
associated with a node a little “i” icon
displays
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Apply taxonomy to complete pathway or nodes
within pathways
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These terms can be made available to assist retrieval of the pathways at both general
and granular level.
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Changing style and presentation of
pathway, e.g. colours, borders etc. on a per
Board basis
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