Joe’s view: open EHR
Joe McDonald remembers the days of dial up and proprietary web packages. Can the NHS learn from the move to virtually free software and open communities?
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Joe McDonald remembers the days of dial up and proprietary web packages. Can the NHS learn from the move to virtually free software and open communities?
The IM&T director at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is revamping its IT ahead of a move to a new hospital in 2018. Sam Sachdeva reports.
Dr John Lockley discovers a potentially fatal system error in some hotel lighting; and vows to make sure that the same problems won’t turn up in the replacement for Choose and Book.
The chief clinical information officer for the Hampshire Health Record likes to present himself as the Robin Hood of the IT world; taking from the information rich and giving to the poor. Lis Evenstad talked to him.
Mark Dundon, former chief information officer at Plusnet, tells Paul Curran why he moved into healthcare, and his hopes for his commissioning support unit.
Dr John Lockley uses his regular column to pen an open letter to the Department of Health, calling for a fundamental re-think of the increasingly vexed rules about the use of personal confidential data in the NHS.