You are asked to participate in a research study conducted by Alan G. Robinson, from the School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. The goal of the study is develop new information systems and to improve current information systems to support UCLA's health sciences research, education and patient care. Our first step is to catalog current systems and to determine those systems that might be needed in the future. The AHSC includes the four health professional schools, related biomedical institutes, and the three hospitals in the UCLA Clinical Enterprise.
Focus groups encourage open dialogue that facilitates sharing information.
The goal of the focus group session is to hear as many viewpoints as possible so that we can assess and document the information needs of UCLA-AHSC persons. We would like to identify and prioritize their short and long-term information infrastructure, resource, and service needs. The goal is NOT for participants to discuss a specific disease, NOT for participants to learn about a disease, and NOT a support group for participants. Future plans for information systems will be based on what the UCLA AHSC community tells us. The goal is to provide easy one-stop information shopping for researchers, educators, patient care providers, patients, students, and support staff.