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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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.
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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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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 2013, according to NHS IT directors asked for their views of the year ahead.
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Seven for ‘13
Ewan Davis looks back at 2012 and identifies the trends – from hackdays to open source to patient-held records – that will reshape NHS IT in 2013 and beyond.
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Funding needed for openGPSoC
The people behind a scheme to develop an open source GP clinical system are in talks with providers about raising £3m in funding to kickstart the project.
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Open standards principles published
All government bodies must comply with new open standards principals designed to make government IT more open, cheaper and better connected.
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Small is beautiful
Everybody loved SMEs at EHI Live 2012; although a few would like to feel the love as cold, hard cash. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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Skunkworks opens up IT for debate
Healthcare communities need to take responsibility for establishing the interoperability of IT systems, said one of the speakers during the Skunkworks debate at EHI Live 2012.
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Open standards due in Autumn
The public consultation on open standards for government IT is with ministers for consideration and the outcome is likely to be published this Autumn.
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