Open Source

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28 June 2013

NHS England wants open source option

NHS England wants an open source electronic patient record system to be an option for NHS trusts, “if they want
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27 June 2013

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
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22 April 2013

Spine2 built in-house on open source

The replacement for the NHS data spine, Spine2, is being built using open source components and is due to go
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18 April 2013

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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11 March 2013

King’s rolls out Wardware

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has rolled-out an open source nursing observations system, Wardware, to 12 wards.
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29 January 2013

Coding sub-zero

Despite a lack of heating and a rather unreliable internet connection, spirits were high at NHS Hack Day, Oxford. Lis
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28 January 2013

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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31 December 2012

2012 changes to be felt in 2013

The transition away from the National Programme for IT in the NHS is finally underway and will gather speed in
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20 December 2012

Seven for ‘13

Ewan Davis looks back at 2012 and identifies the trends – from hackdays to open source to patient-held records –
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11 December 2012

Funding needed for openGPSoC

The people behind a scheme to develop an open source GP clinical system are in talks with providers about raising
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