Society for Computing & Technology in Anaesthesia

Due to inactivity, the forum is now closed. Thanks to everyone that posted content. We'll keep it a while longer, and use the topics as the basis for our new collaborative workings on Confluence. If you'd like to ask a question, or make a contribution, please ask for an invitation to our Slack Chann...

It has been a long-term ambition of SCATA to create and deliver a generic course for clinicians (of all stripes) on the topic of Digital Health. This has yet to take flight in any meaningful way, but there is an initial course structure available for perusal at: https://www.scata.org.uk/lms This is ...

Please see attached notes from the Working Group meeting in February 2014.
Target date of mid-September 2014 for having course content and marketing strategy clarified.

Hi Sean, I'll put you in touch with Andrew Norton's group that looks at Record Standards in Anaesthesia.
Apologies if you are already plugged into that group !
Cheers

Grant

A topic that comes up regularly ast SCATA meetings and in committee discussion is the development of apps for mobile devices. SCATA does not currently have any development activity going on in this area and is seeking ideas from the membership for new projects. These could be anything from a meeting...

BTW did you see this :
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1 ... 4/abstract
Comes #1 in a Google search for "online consent for epidurals".
This forum topic is #2

Sorry for the six-month reply delay. Must remember to watch topics ;) Opera is OK as far as scheduling is concerned but the user interface is pretty dreadful, the reporting tool is slow and clunky and there are still occasional issues with network latency, patients not updating etc. Definitely bette...

Hi Emma The SCATA committee discussed your proposal at our net meeting on Monday. The outcome was : The members present supported the outline project fully There was agreement that SCATA funds could be made available to support development and/or technical services in the form of a grant (the grant ...

I circulated your ideas to the SCATA committee with a link to your post above. I'll copy any replies here so that we can keep the discussion going. No doubt the NHS would want to know what financial benefits the project would bring before committing any funding to it. These benefits might be difficu...

Another option to consider is having a meeting centred on a sepcific topic e.g. Electronic Anaesthesia Record (eAR) systems and perhaps invite some of our colleagues from industry to contribute. It would be better if we had it in the format of a seminar/debate around interoperability rather than as ...