easier to extract management information. All hospitals in Wales will have access to Radis2 by 2010. In April 2009, the Cancer Information Network System Cymru (Canisc) was established as a national service making it easier for information about treatment to be shared. Designed originally by Cardiff’s Velindre NHS Trust in 1991, Informing Healthcare, along with Velindre and Health Solutions Wales delivered Canisc throughout Wales, and management of the new service will be under the Business Services Centre. The new national service allows any number of NHS Wales organisations to record assessments, treatments and follow up care into a common patient casenote, which any healthcare professional caring for that patient can access, thus giving a full picture of each individual's care wherever that person happens to be treated. Some of Informing Healthcare's other projects include working with hospital pharmacies to improve medicines management; ensuring that patients are correctly identified via a Master Patient Index; and procuring the Map of Medicine, a clinical information and service design resource. Informing Healthcare and Health Informatics Health informatics professionals are the people work with health IT or information. They cover a wide range of occupations including IT technicians, information analysts, project managers, medical records officers and clinical coders. Together they form a new and rapidly growing class of professional in NHS Wales. Informing Healthcare is working to ensure Wales attracts new staff to work in this expanding field and to develop them by promoting education, training and professional development through the Welsh Health Informatics Professional Development Programme. References External links Map of Medicine Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom NHS Wales 2003 establishments in Wales