1. NHS Centric

• Since the start of the National Health Service (NHS), staff who provide care or treatment have collected data about the individual in order to provide better care. In Scotland, some of the data has been brought together and stored in what is known as the national database. ISD Scotland - Scottish National Database

EMIS is the UK's leading IT supplier in primary healthcare, hosting over 39 million electronic patient records (EPRs) within its systems. Around 55 per cent of doctors in the UK currently use EMIS software each day EMIS Online (Egton Medical Information Systems)

NHS Connecting for Health is supporting the NHS to deliver better, safer care to patients. We are bringing in new computer systems and services to link GPs and community services with hospitals. This means NHS staff treating you will be able to find information - such as your notes, x-rays or scans - quickly, easily and securely NHS Connecting for Health

• NHS Tayside - Divisional Primary Care Comittee 1st November 2005. The purpose of the report is to inform the DPCC on the implementation including bed management and ask member's support for the collection admission/transfer/discharge information on patients at ward level .NHS Tayside - Implementation of PAS Across Tayside

• NHS Secondary Use Services - This website provides information about the Secondary Uses Service (SUS), which is being delivered as part of the National Programme for IT by  NHS Connecting for Health in partership with The Information Centre for health and social care. It contains general information about the Programme as well as practical help to support implementation.Secondary Use Services

• SEPHO: How Can HES Be Used?
• Wikipedia - Entity Relationship Diagramming  
• Very simple Health Care Data Model -good for discussing what is wrong with it?
• The NHS Common Basic Specification why it did not work
• NHS Data Dictionary file 

2. UML

             Here is an example ERD of a radio station scenario link

• Here is an example of a health informatics dissertation that made use of UML link
• A student on a previous cohort mentioned another UML tool, Visual Paradigm, which provides a free version called the community edition see http://www.visual-paradigm.com/ The people who developed this software have also produced a book, and ar offering two of the chapters as a preview. They provide a good description of Classes diagrams and Use case diagrams. The book is called Object-Oriented Technology by Tsang, Lau and Leung 2005 Mcgraw-Hill 2005 Chapter 2 (classes) link; Chapter 3 (use cases) link
• The following is an example of a document making use of UML to discuss hospital messaging. link

3. MagicDraw

• Visit the MagicDraw website http://www.magicdraw.com/ register to download the demo version of MagicDraw personal edition ('full' version), not the community edition. The most recent version of MagicDraw is 16.0
• Download the required software (about 151 Mb) and apply the appropriate ACADEMIC LICENSE key when installing the software. This is provided by your tutor.
• Ignore anydemo keys that are sent to you from MagicDraw; these do not convert the product from a demo to a full version, unlike the academic key we have sent you