Joe’s view: open EHR
Joe McDonald remembers the days of dial up and proprietary web packages. Can the NHS learn from the move to virtually free software and open communities?
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Enter the CCG: fall over a system error
Dr John Lockley discovers a potentially fatal system error in some hotel lighting; and vows to make sure that the same problems won’t turn up in the replacement for Choose and Book.
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CCIO profile: Dr Amir Mehrkar
The chief clinical information officer for the Hampshire Health Record likes to present himself as the Robin Hood of the IT world; taking from the information rich and giving to the poor. Lis Evenstad talked to him.
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Enter the CCG – an open letter to the DH
Dr John Lockley uses his regular column to pen an open letter to the Department of Health, calling for a fundamental re-think of the increasingly vexed rules about the use of personal confidential data in the NHS.
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