Fourteen predictions for 2014
EHI asked a wide range of healthcare IT experts to look ahead to 2014 – in 140 characters or fewer. They picked policy change, tech fund success, and the demise of the onsie as issues to watch…
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First cut of VistA for NHS developed
Two US companies have worked with UK open source experts to create a ‘first cut’ of an anglicised version of the VistA electronic patient record system.
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HP plans open source offer for NHS
Hewlett Packard is planning to provide a full electronic patient record system on the open source framework being developed by NHS England.
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Birmingham to offer PICS licence-free
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust will offer its Prescribing Information and Communication System to the NHS on a licence-free basis instead of “open-sourcing” it.
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£20m of tech fund to go on open source
Up to £20m of the ‘Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards: Technology Fund’ will go towards open source development.
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HSCIC to support open source
The Health and Social Care Information Centre will extend its support for NHS organisations and providers using open source, open interfaces and cloud technology to increase integration across health and social care.
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Spine2 built on Riak database
The replacement for the NHS data Spine is being built around a distributed, open source database called Riak from US company Basho.
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Levin warns on NHS open source approach
The former chief technology officer of the US Department of Veterans Affairs has warned that NHS England’s bid to bring open source to the health service will fail without a central authority to drive it.
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Rising star: Elijah Charles
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has its own IT MacGyver; someone able to create inventions from simple items to solve complex problems. Lis Evenstad talks to him.
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NHS England says no to VistA
NHS England has decided not to pay £7m to anglicise the US Veterans Health Administration’s open source electronic medical record, VistA.
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