The Digital Clinician

Any doctor who thinks they can be replaced by a computer should be

The majority of clinicans are not partcularly interested in digital technology per se; they just want it to work. They also have anxieties about whether it will be harmful to patients (e.g. AI decision-support), whether it will interfere with the clinical communication process, and whether it will ismply place a larger impersonal admin burden on their lives. Colleagues in the digital technical community want to design systems that augment and support patient care, but don't necessarily understand the concerns of shop-floor clinicans. The advent of Clinical Informatics as a discipline has produced the 'translators' who can work across these boundaries.

I have spent several years acquiring skills and experience in Clinical Informatics, and developed the role of Chief Clinical Information Officer in Cardiff and Vale UHB as the culmination of that.

• NHS Digital Academy alumnus
  

• Welsh Clinical Informatics Council, NHS Wales
  

• Advisor on NHS Wales Digital Governance review, Welsh Government
  

• National Data Resource Programme Board, NHS Wales
  

• Establishment of Clinically-led Digital Governance structures, Cardiff and Vale UHB