by | Mar 17, 2010 | Health
While innovation might look like step change development from the outside, it is often driven by incremental improvements in the fields concerned. Is it possible to filter out / focus on the areas where step change innovations could be designed and thus bypass the...
by | Mar 11, 2010 | Health
No wonder I haven’t heard anything from HPC recently. They are being outsourced to the private sector. The tender is an interesting read, and it seems to be the natural route to making the collaborative procurement hubs more commercial. Whether this has really...
by | Nov 18, 2009 | Health, ICT
A GP summarises his lessons learned from developing apps for the iPhone. As you might expect, APIs and interop around clinical vocabulary are the key ones.
by | Nov 2, 2009 | Health
Great guidelines for health coding standards. While the discussion is a little technical, the principles outlined are spot on. We should be using these in the work that NPEP is doing.
by | Oct 30, 2009 | Health, ICT
What looks like a very sensible idea to open up the NHS IT landscape: provide a set of interoperability guidelines so that the big providers can focus on the core clinical systems, while smaller players can provide add-ons like the SMS messaging mentioned in the...
by | Oct 28, 2009 | Health, ICT, Local government
Herefordshire is joining up its NHS and council IT provision. I wonder whether this lower level of sharing is the way forward as opposed to / alongside shared Chief Executives (given that the nature of the CEO job is mostly dealing with “politics” either...
