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Department of Information <strong>and</strong> Communication Te c h n o l o g y<br />
<strong>St</strong>.Vincent’s Healthcare Group<br />
Library & Information Service<br />
Allied Health Professional <strong>and</strong> Support Services<br />
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developed systems for Occupational Therapy <strong>and</strong> Speech <strong>and</strong><br />
Language Therapy.<br />
We are currently prototyping our recently developed Intranet<br />
in a number of departments e.g. Pathology, Pharmacy, Personnel<br />
<strong>and</strong> Occupational Health prior to a general rollout across the<br />
Group.This system will improve communications,allow<br />
departments to share information, reduce <strong>and</strong> eliminate paper<br />
<strong>and</strong> provide access to policies <strong>and</strong> procedures,manuals <strong>and</strong><br />
forms online.The Intranet will incorporate links to current<br />
systems for enquiry, reporting <strong>and</strong> result reporting.<br />
The Nursing Personnel System records information on nurses<br />
relating to their demographics, nursing registration, nurse<br />
contacts,external <strong>and</strong> internal career history, education,staff<br />
development activities,research,membership, skills <strong>and</strong> some<br />
details relating to leavers.A nurse-scheduling module will also<br />
be incorporated which will aid staff management <strong>and</strong> skill mix<br />
on the wards.The scope of this system has been extended to<br />
include Personnel <strong>and</strong> Medical Administration.<br />
We are currently implementing a Management Information<br />
System <strong>and</strong> Data Warehouse drawing <strong>and</strong> purifying information<br />
from clinical <strong>and</strong> non-clinical systems into a single repository<br />
incorporating systems integration tools,on line analytical<br />
processing (OLAP), business intelligence software <strong>and</strong> desktop<br />
decision support. The system will also contain a data-mining<br />
tool capable of providing comprehensive reports <strong>and</strong> ad hoc<br />
queries.The solution will therefore enable the hospital to<br />
maximise the value of data already stored in our current<br />
computer systems,<strong>and</strong> build an infrastructure that will help us<br />
meet the current <strong>and</strong> increasing dem<strong>and</strong>s for management <strong>and</strong><br />
clinical information.<br />
We will continue to enhance our existing network while<br />
tendering for the active network equipment for the new<br />
hospital project.<br />
We have initiated a project in conjunction with the Healthlink<br />
project team to provide data such as pathology <strong>and</strong> radiology<br />
data to GP’s.<br />
We are currently preparing a requirements specification for an<br />
Order Communications System which will provide for the<br />
electronic raising / transmission of orders <strong>and</strong> the gathering /<br />
receipt of results between patient based departments or<br />
locations <strong>and</strong> ancillary departmental systems e.g. pathology,<br />
radiology etc.<br />
We are also hoping to implement a document scanning system<br />
for the Emergency Department.<br />
The Library & Information Service (LIS) facilitates all staff of the<br />
three hospitals in <strong>St</strong> Vincent’s Healthcare Group. It serves all<br />
students from its affiliated university, University College Dublin,<br />
who are resident in the hospitals <strong>and</strong> also GPs working in the<br />
vicinity, upon registration.It does not provide services to<br />
patients,other students or the general public.<br />
The Library & Information Service attends to the information<br />
needs of its users <strong>and</strong> therefore the clinical practice, education<br />
<strong>and</strong> research activities of the Healthcare Group.<br />
<strong>St</strong>aff<br />
The Library employs 2 full time <strong>and</strong> 1 part-time staff members.<br />
Head of Library<br />
& Information Services<br />
Senior Library Assistant<br />
Niamh Lucey<br />
Greg Sheaf<br />
Library Assistant (evenings) Paula Maher (to June 2003)<br />
Dearbhla Sheridan<br />
Saul Lugoye is employed by UCD as Computing Support<br />
Officer to the ERC.<br />
Service Developments/Activities<br />
Informatics<br />
Early in 2003 a group representing members of the Library <strong>and</strong><br />
Information Service Committee <strong>and</strong> UCD Computing Services<br />
was formed to try to speed up the delivery of electronic<br />
services from the university to the hospital, but the pace has<br />
been disappointingly slow to date.Towards the end of the year<br />
Saul was co-opted onto a Faculty of <strong>Medicine</strong> Users’Group <strong>and</strong><br />
the hospital was further represented in the IT planning process<br />
in the university so it is hoped to make progress in 2004.<br />
for the Library including a PC, a scanner, <strong>and</strong> printer hardware<br />
for the digital photocopier.<br />
Collection<br />
This year the Group Executive approved a collection<br />
development policy, which outlines the scope of the collection<br />
of books <strong>and</strong> journals held in the Library. Copies are available<br />
upon request or can be viewed on the premises.Additional<br />
shelving was added to the existing room at the end of the year<br />
but lack of space continues to be a problem.<br />
Journals:The LIS subscribed to 103 journal titles in 2003 in the<br />
areas of medicine, nursing <strong>and</strong> allied health,at a cost of<br />
€42,582.47. Over 60 titles were also received on donation.<br />
Books: Thanks to the efforts of Professor Diarmuid<br />
O’Donoghue, a fundraiser was launched in May, which<br />
generated almost €7000 for books for the Library. In addition,<br />
Professor MX FitzGerald provided funding for some much<br />
needed medical undergraduate textbooks. Finally, Fannin<br />
Healthcare Ltd donated a very substantial number of textbooks<br />
to the Librar y.The department is indebted to the consultant<br />
staff,Prof FitzGerald <strong>and</strong> Fannins for their generosity.<br />
Heritage IV: For most of 2003 staff members were engaged<br />
in retrospectively cataloguing the existing collection of<br />
books onto the new electronic library management<br />
system,Heritage IV. By the end of the year all of<br />
the loan collection had been added to the<br />
system <strong>and</strong> a record for all registered<br />
borrowers had been generated.All<br />
loan transactions now take place<br />
electronically <strong>and</strong> users can<br />
use the online public<br />
access catalogue<br />
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Yet again the Postgraduate Medical <strong>and</strong> Dental Board provided<br />
some welcome funds for the purchase of IT equipment