S02E04 Health Informatics And Electronic Clinical Research With Wai Keong Wong

Bolus: education delivered stat

Welcome to Episode 4, our first ever episode not directly discussing Haematology! We are joined by Dr Wai Keong Wong, who as well as being a clinical Haematologist, is also UCLH's Chief Research Information Officer. Following the introduction of an Electronic Health Record System (EHRS) at UCLH, data is no longer technically difficult to collect, and the research potential of an organisation can rise dramatically. This throws up new challenges for clinicians consenting patients, ethics committees and information governance. We discuss the lessons learnt from the controversial collaboration between the Royal Free Hospital and Google's Deep Mind in 2016, and how to stay patient focused when meeting a patient and using EHRS at the same time. Will EHRS help in the earlier detection of patient deterioration , and what other interesting directions will clinical research take now that randomised trials can be designed and run within a completely electronic system?