{"id":49419,"date":"2021-01-19T17:38:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T16:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=49419"},"modified":"2021-01-25T19:26:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T18:26:51","slug":"philip-scott-how-to-cure-infonaemia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2021\/01\/19\/philip-scott-how-to-cure-infonaemia\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Scott: How to cure \u201cinfonaemia\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"standfirst\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Philip Scott describes why BMJ Health &amp; Care Informatics is launching a programme of patient and carer involvement<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When my mother was dying in hospital six years ago, at each visit I would be told something that contradicted what I&#8217;d heard the day before. One day we were waiting for this test result, the next day we didn\u2019t need that test after all. Or yesterday it was, &#8220;Let\u2019s stop all the pain medication and see what happens,&#8221; followed by, &#8220;Who on earth thought that was a good idea?&#8221; What\u2019s stopping her from leaving hospital? Today it\u2019s this, tomorrow that doesn\u2019t matter and it\u2019s something else. Each day I&#8217;d encounter a different junior doctor, leafing through the notes to find something to tell me. Finally, quite by chance, I had the amazing luck to actually meet the consultant who could piece it all together into a coherent story that more or less made sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Information has been called the \u201clifeblood of care.\u201d<sup><a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">1<\/a><\/sup> Using that analogy, many patients and carers suffer from a critical deficiency. Communication failure is widely recognized as a recurring root cause of error in healthcare. This is not solely down to overworked medics, but usually involves unreliable processes<sup><a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">2<\/a><\/sup> and poorly designed or badly implemented information systems.<sup><a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">3<\/a><\/sup> As the Richmond Group of Charities put it, effective use of information for patient benefit is often \u201ccurrently being achieved in spite of the system, rather than because of it\u201d.<sup><a href=\"#_ftn4\" name=\"_ftnref4\">4 <\/a><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is not just a matter of ticking the box marked &#8220;patient involvement&#8221; or mouthing mantras about &#8220;patients at the centre of everything we do.&#8221; Patients and their family carers can be far more than mere passive recipients of information. It is perhaps no coincidence that one of the pioneers of medical computing, Warner Slack, was also a vocal proponent of patient participation. He coined the phrase that \u201cpatients are the most underused resource\u201d in healthcare.<sup><a href=\"#_ftn5\" name=\"_ftnref5\">5<\/a><\/sup> I particularly like his software (written in 1966, before the word \u201cco-design\u201d was invented, but demonstrating its meaning) to take a medical history from a patient typing into a computer terminal. It famously included the \u201cnone of your damn business\u201d option on some questions and on completion would translate \u201cpatient English\u201d into medical terminology.<sup><a href=\"#_ftn6\" name=\"_ftnref6\">6<\/a><\/sup> I suspect that modern commercial systems would struggle to emulate such performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Patients and carers can understand as much as, if not more than, any clinician about information technology opportunities. They are not constrained by assumed organisational issues or rules, and cast a credible perspective on informatics possibilities and recognise things that are actually stupid ideas. Informatics professionals will benefit from listening to and learning from people. As a very practical example, it has repeatedly been shown that patients mostly understand what is in their medical record and can identify errors and omissions.<sup><a href=\"#_ftn7\" name=\"_ftnref7\">7,<\/a><\/sup> <sup><a href=\"#_ftn8\" name=\"_ftnref8\">8,<\/a><\/sup> <sup><a href=\"#_ftn9\" name=\"_ftnref9\">9<\/a><\/sup> Topics such as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">shared decision making and reducing treatment burden have clear informatics implications and are calling out for patient and carer voices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BMJ Health &amp; Care Informatics<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is launching a programme of patient and carer involvement, with seed funding from the British Computer Society Health &amp; Care Executive. We want to bring the patient and carer voice into peer review and writing original material, perhaps later coming into editorial roles. In line with the guidelines of the UK National Institute for Health Research, we will offer to reimburse the time of patient and carer participants\u2014we want to reach beyond the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">articulate middle class, to those who are at the sharp end of \u201csocial determinants of health.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0We have worked within BMJ\u2019s existing patient involvement structures and policies and set up a governance process to avoid conflicts of interest. Over time, we should insist that any papers we accept in our journal include appropriate involvement of patients and carers, even in apparently very technical subject areas\u2014if there is no patient angle then what is the point?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We need to amplify the voices of patients and carers so that their insights are central to digital transformation. Let\u2019s cure the \u201cinfonaemia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Philip Scott<\/strong> is a deputy editor at<\/em> BMJ Health &amp; Care Informatics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Competing interests:<\/strong> None declared.<\/p>\n<p><b>References<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]\u00a0<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coiera E. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Communication systems in healthcare.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em> Clin Biochem Rev<\/em>, 2006. <\/span>27(2): p. 89-98.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]\u00a0<\/a>Burnett S, et al. How reliable are clinical systems in the UK NHS? A study of seven NHS organisations. <em>BMJ Qual Saf<\/em>, 2012. 21(6): p. 466-72. DOI:10.1136\/bmjqs-2011-000442.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\">[3]\u00a0<\/a>Walker K and Ben-Meir M. <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s time to think hard about how clinicians work in a digital age<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <em>BMJ Opinion<\/em>, 2019. Available from: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/01\/30\/its-time-to-think-hard-about-how-clinicians-work-in-a-digital-age\/\">https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/01\/30\/its-time-to-think-hard-about-how-clinicians-work-in-a-digital-age\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref4\" name=\"_ftn4\">[4]\u00a0<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richmond Group. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My data, my care<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. 2017. Available from: <a href=\"https:\/\/richmondgroupofcharities.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/lr_5233_richmond_group_my_data_my_care_report.pdf\">https:\/\/richmondgroupofcharities.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/lr_5233_richmond_group_my_data_my_care_report.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref5\" name=\"_ftn5\">[5]\u00a0<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Slack WV <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Patient Counseling by Computer<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer Application in Medical Care, 1978. 222-226. Available from: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2231757\/\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2231757\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref6\" name=\"_ftn6\">[6]\u00a0<\/a>Slack WV, et al. <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A computer-based medical-history system<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i> <em>N Engl J Med<\/em>, 1966. 274(4): p. 194-8. DOI:10.1056\/nejm196601272740406.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref7\" name=\"_ftn7\">[7]\u00a0<\/a>Fisher B, et al. Patient record access&#8211;the time has come! <em>Br J Gen Pract<\/em>, 2007. 57(539): p. 507-11.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref8\" name=\"_ftn8\">[8]\u00a0<\/a>Pyper C, et al. Patients&#8217; experiences when accessing their on-line electronic patient records in primary care<i>.<\/i> <em>Br J Gen Pract<\/em>, 2004. 54(498): p. 38-43.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref9\" name=\"_ftn9\">[9]\u00a0<\/a>Powell J, Fitton R, and Fitton C. Sharing electronic health records: the patient view<i style=\"font-size: 1rem\">.<\/i> <em>Inform Prim Care<\/em>, 2006. 14(1): p. 55-7. 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