Open Source

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25 April 2023

How do we improve the adoption of open source in the NHS?

Commitments to open-source technology are enshrined in NHS policy but adoption is frustratingly slow. It is time to spread the
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20 March 2023

Speakers raise doubts about FDP Palantir bid in Rewired Big DebateĀ 

NHS Englandā€™s Federated Data Platform tender could set back data sharing in the NHS by raising privacy fears over approach
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11 October 2021

Made Well open source collective launched for digital health solutions

The Made Well Collective brings together health and social care organisations through a free-to-use, open source platform, accessible to all
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4 May 2021

Joeā€™s view: Public money, public code

After leaving the NHS in December, Professor Joe McDonald still has the health service on his mind as he looks
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New openness to open source
18 March 2019

Will this new openness to open source heed past lessons?

NHSX has listed open source as one of its priorities. For Ewan Davis, there is a keen sense of dƩjƠ
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13 August 2018

Open-source snafu leaves patient data exposed

Data pertaining to tens of millions of patients around the world has been jeopardised due to severe security flaws in
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Plymouth Open EHR
26 April 2018

Plymouth plans to go live with OpenEHR in next six months

The CIO at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust has said the organisation is planning to go live with an open
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3 August 2017

Joeā€™s View: Betting on the 1% Open Digital Challenge Fund

Joe McDonald, chair of the CCIO Network and Digital Healthā€™s sometimes travel editor, is inspired by his use of next
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OpenEyes
11 July 2017

Moorfields picks Hicom to develop its OpenEyes EPR

The trust that created the OpenEyes electronic patient record has brought in an external supplier to increase the EPRā€™s functionality.
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17 May 2017

NHS urged to consider Microsoft alternatives following cyber-attacks

In the wake of Fridayā€™s international cyber attacks, which caused widespread disruption across NHS organisations, a small team of developers
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