The Primary Care Informatics group is located within the Department of General Practice and Primary Care at St. George's. The group aims to be part of the development of primary care informatics as an academic discipline. Its main focuses are:

• knowledge and information management in the clinical context
• improving the quality of electronic patient records
• telemonitoring of patients
• computer aided learning applications, and
• developing tools for the formative evaluation of ICT (information and communications technology) developments and their implementation

The core of the group have been working together since 1996 when they came together to set up the Doctors Desk project. Since that project they have had nine further projects funded and published over twenty peer-reviewed publications. The group is always actively seeking new opportunities to collaborate in research and be involved in ICT developments, particularly those of a practical nature taking place within primary care.

Primary Care Informatics: A definition.

Community nurses access to and use of computers: questionnaire

The Primary Care Informatics Group is proud to annonunce the start of the Biomedical Informatics course, the first undergraduate course of its kind in the United Kingdom. If you have any queries or questions regarding the course do not hesitate to contact Katherine Pigott, the course administrator.