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 4, 2009 | Central government, ICT
Always fascinating to see the eventual costs of projects you have been peripherally involved in. The Shared Business Services piece in the Home office has a £35.9m budget through to 2011, but I think this doesn’t include the initial costs of the ERP...
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...
by | Oct 20, 2009 | Central government, ICT
Ouch. Defra cancelled an EDRM project in 2005 which had already spent £12.6m. Another paused project cost £9.9m to deliver £0.25m of outputs. That said, there aren’t enough cancelled projects in my opinion: once they are running a life they start having a life...
