Open Source

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9 October 2013

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
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9 October 2013

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
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8 October 2013

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
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30 September 2013

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,
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22 August 2013

Rising star: Samantha Robinson

In the first of a series of interviews with the “rising stars” of NHS IT, Lis Evenstad talks to Samantha
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12 August 2013

From the Heart and Chest

Dr Johan Waktare, a consultant at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, has reached “the end of the beginning” of its
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9 August 2013

Pathologist creates open source software

A pathologist at Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust has created open source, web-based pathology reporting software.
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31 July 2013

IMS Maxims open to open source

IMS Maxims is in discussions with NHS England about the possibility of open sourcing some of its software.
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10 July 2013

oPortfolio springs from NHS Hack Day

A project to create a free open source e-portfolio for junior doctors as an alternative to the NHS e-portfolio system
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8 July 2013

NHS spends £300,000 on US exchange

The NHS is spending nearly £300,000 on an exchange programme with the US Veteran’s Health Administration to investigate its use
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