Scotland gets National Digital Platform to improve data access
People in Scotland will soon have improved access to their data thanks to the launch of a National Digital Platform for the country.
Interoperability
Bolton goes live with OpenEyes open source software
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with Open Eyes software in its ophthalmic department. The open source EPR was created at London’s Moorfields.
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Open source to be big tech fund 2 winner
Open source projects will likely be the stand-out winners of NHS England’s tech fund 2 awards, EHI News has learned.
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CCIO profile: Bill Aylward
The director of the OpenEyes project at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a passionate advocate of open source. He tells Sam Sachdeva its time has come.
Feature
Ade Memoire: gets source-y
Adrian Byrne wonders whether the NHS should choose open source, closed source, or no sauce at all.
Feature
Open Eyes and Raspberry Pis
An open source electronic patient record system developed at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will be deployed across 40 sites in developing Commonwealth countries.
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Open eyes to NHS open source
NHS England is considering the Anglicisation of a US open source system for the NHS, but it would be better looking at homegrown alternatives, says EHI editor Jon Hoeksma.
Feature
Glaucoma clinics run on Moorfields app
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has developed an app to run virtual glaucoma clinics.
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Coding sub-zero
Despite a lack of heating and a rather unreliable internet connection, spirits were high at NHS Hack Day, Oxford. Lis Evenstad reports.
Feature
Heart a-hack
A group of clinicians and developers won NHS Hack Day Oxford with an open source electronic patient record for cardiologists.
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