FOSS: NHS Specific

NHS IT boss walks out and steps back. High performance access to file storage Christine Connelly, chief information officer for health, has resigned ahead of a shakeup of the department.

In a statement she said: “The Department of Health faces a major reorganisation of its top structures that will result in fewer Director General posts. I have been reflecting on whether I would wish to go for one of those roles and decided that I will not. " She said she had decided that now was the right time to "step back and think about what I might do next". The National Programme for IT - the £12.7bn project to improve technology use within the NHS - is facing major changes as part of coalition cutbacks. Guardian Professional - Nightly (Build 20110507043313) We can't yet know the details the NHS information and technology strategies expected to emerge from the Department of Health later this year.

However we can be pretty sure of the direction of travel: away from the already disowned "rip and replace" philosophy of the old National Programme for IT in England and towards a world in which healthcare teams create electronic patient records by interlinking existing specialist systems, based wherever possible on open standards and software. And with little or no new central funding to make that happen. For a glimpse today of how the future may look, a good place to start is Leeds Teaching Hospitals, one of England's largest trusts. It has developed a web portal that allows accident and emergency teams to call up clinical and administrative data from specialist systems, all done with open source.

Shannon is a member of a still-rare breed - clinicians with real depth and breadth of experience in healthcare informatics. Opening up. Open source and the sluggish UK public sector. High performance access to file storage Workshop Confronting their rapidly shrinking budgets, public sector bean counters must imagine that someone somewhere has been casting Chinese curses about living in interesting times.

Because when money gets tight, things sure do get interesting. You would think that at times like these open-source deployments would be the obvious solution. Open source has to be considered for public-sector IT projects and with no upfront licensing costs it ought to be a shoe-in. But it doesn’t seem to work that way. “I’d like to think open source has a value other than as a negotiating tool,” she says. “But it is a bit of a chicken and egg situation. Amour toujours Open source has not taken off in the UK the way it has in France and Germany, for example, because there is less government support for it.

Home - Mirth Corporation. Whitehall to launch son-of-NPfIT scheme within weeks - The Tony Collins Blog. Whitehall officials are to launch a son-of-NPfIT procurement for IT suppliers, covering hosting, software, and deployment at up 28 “acute” trusts in the south of England.

As in the early days of the NPfIT, between 2003 and 2006, there will be an emphasis on what NHS Connecting for Health calls “rapid deployment and rollout allowing speedy benefit delivery”. CfH says the plan is for multiple suppliers and contracts to allow NHS information to be shared across the south. But several supplier representatives who attended an “initial supplier plenary meeting” run by NHS Connecting for Health say the scheme is confusingly complicated, lacks pragmatism and has little or no chance of success.

Although contracts will be signed by trusts, NHS Connecting for Health will arrange the choice of suppliers; and it has drawn up plans to mix up the companies that supply software, hosting facilities, deployment and integration. Too complicated? [legal] Permission to use a modified OpenID logo - Snorri - net.openid.legal. -----Message d'origine----- De : lega...

@openid.net [mailto:lega... @openid.net] De la part de Chris Messina Envoyé : lundi 6 octobre 2008 03:57 À : coli... @nhs.net Cc : leg... @openid.net Objet : Re: [legal] Permission to use a modified OpenID logo The simplest thing you could do would be to offer a "coda" link somewhere and give thanks to the OpenID community, linking to openid.net and using the official logo there. Otherwise I think you're more likely to encourage confusion for your own users who might try to use their third-party OpenIDs on your site and get errors. Your case requires that you also do more to handle such error cases and list the sources of identifiers that you're willing to accept. OTOH, Microsoft's HealthVault spells out which OpenIDs they support in their help section: So... I would strongly recommend AGAINST changing the colors or design of the OpenID logo.

So far nothing has been concluded. Regards: Colin Evans NHS CFH Capability & Capacity =nat.