Open source enlightenment needed to end ‘dark ages’ of health IT
Tony Shannon, chief executive of Ripple, responds to the column by Digital Health editor, Jon Hoeksma, on whatever happened to open source in NHS IT in 2016, and argues we remain in the ‘dark ages’ of health IT.
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Whatever happened to Open Source in 2016?
Open source was all the rage in the NHS in 2015, but it’s barely rated in the past 12 months. Jon Hoeksma examines the drivers behind the quiet pivot and whether there is still place for open source in the NHS.
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Interview: Steven Bloor
Steven Bloor, the chief information officer at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, talks to Lyn Whitfield about how its openMaxims deployment is going, and what he’s learned about the benefits and risks of open source software.
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Healthcare IT industry news in brief
This week’s industry round up covers an appointment, an acquisition, and push for open source coding in Health. It includes blood-tracker firm MSoft taking on a new manager and Philips buying out a Northern Ireland based rival. Tracking software picked for Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust has picked RFID […]
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Ewan Davis: open for debate
Ewan Davis, a long-term observer of healthcare IT and advocate of open solutions, joins Digital Health’s roster of regular columnists; drawing a little inspiration from Douglas Adams along the way.
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MediPi open source telehealth kit piloted in NHS
An open source telehealth kit built using Raspberry Pi will be piloted with heart patients at a southern NHS trust this financial year.
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NHS Spine 2 managed entirely in-house
The new open source NHS Spine service is being run entirely in-house by the Health and Social Care Information Centre working with small and medium-size enterprises.
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New code for open source EHR released
IMS Maxims has released the latest version of its open source electronic patient record, including all of the enhancements made for Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
Clinical Software
Blackpool takes open source EHR
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will be the third acute trust to deploy the openMaxims electronic patient record.
Clinical Software
Sixteen healthcare IT predictions for 2016
What are the themes that will shape healthcare IT over the coming year? Digital Health News asked some well known national figures, information governance experts, and suppliers for their ideas.
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