quality education for a healthier scotland clinical knowledge publisher overview and demonstration...

Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland

Clinical Knowledge PublisherOverview and Demonstration

Sandra Davies, Senior Information Manager,

Knowledge Services Group

November 2012


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


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


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


Log-in link

Screen pre-log-in


Log-in box

Username = email address

Password = something of user’s choice

New registration link


New account form

Submitted to System Administrator for approval


Logged-in

“Documents” dashboard – search or browse for

documents that you have permissions to access

Menu bar


Designer canvas

Designer toolbar


Click on node and drag to place

a new node on the canvas


Nodes positioned on canvas


Join up nodes with Connections


Select node, drag to connecting node to place

connector


Adding text to a node.. Select

node by double-clicking..


Brings up WYSIWYG text

editor.

HTML view also available.


Use Properties to apply an item style to a particular node to designate something – in

this case “red alert”


Applying an Item Style.

These are customisable by

Administrator


Use Link to link whole pathway or

bits of pathway to supporting information


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


Linking to a piece of text and associating with “Information

Category”


Fires up text editor


Linking to a resource from Knowledge Network and associating with Knowledge Network category


Search for a resource from Knowledge Network in real-time


When a piece of linked information is

associated with a node a little “i” icon

displays


Apply taxonomy to complete pathway or nodes

within pathways


Search from a controlled list of taxonomy terms


Or enter Keyword


These terms can be made available to assist retrieval of the pathways at both general

and granular level.


Save pathway before previewing


Preview pathway


Expand page to see additional info


Basic admin metadata


Key


Linked resources organised into

categories


More Key examples


Example of linking to a pathway


Administrator Functions


Changing style and presentation of

pathway, e.g. colours, borders etc. on a per

Board basis


Configure Link Category settings on a

per Board basis


Configuring node styles on a per Board

basis


Approving new users and assigning roles


Roles


Create teams of users to work on same

document


Create team and assign users to team


Any questions?