Innovative healthcare software provider IMS MAXIMS and Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust are to share the story behind the successful deployment of the UK’s first open source electronic patient record (EPR) at eHealth major industry event, EHI Live. The trust’s director of information, Malcolm Senior, and the CEO of IMS MAXIMS, Shane Tickell, will address delegates in the digital health industry for the first time since the go-live of the system last month.
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Drugs Companies Buy NHS Patient Data, Register Reveals
James Edgar | The Telegraph | April 3, 2014
Some of world's biggest pharmaceutical companies have bought NHS patient data, a new register has revealed. Drugs corporations including Bayer, Baxter, AstraZeneca and Roche are among dozens of private firms sold information, as well as Bupa, the healthcare provider.
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HSCIC To Support Open Source
Lis Evenstad | eHealth Insider | October 29, 2013
The Health and Social Care Information Centre will extend its support for NHS organisations and providers using open source, open interfaces and cloud technology to increase integration across health and social care. Read More »
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Leeds and Ripple Pick Lockheed Martin to Help Build Open Source Digital Care Record
David Bicknell | Government Computing | June 14, 2016
Leeds City Council and the local Ripple community health initiative have picked Lockheed Martin to help them deliver aspects of an open source IT development to build an integrated digital care record platform. Ripple, which is funded by the NHS Tech Fund and hosted by Leeds City Council on behalf of the NHS Integration Pioneers, is building an open source integrated health and care platform that allows frontline staff to access the most up to date and joined up care information about an individual, helping drive better and safer care...
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NHS 'To Benefit From Agile Development' With Selection Of Open Source Database Riak For Spine2
Sooraj Shah | Computing | October 11, 2013
The NHS has selected US developer Basho's open source database Riak to underpin its efforts to rebuild its Spine infrastructure. Read More »
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NHS Delays e-Referral Service Launch Until 2015
Charlotte Jee | ComputerWorld UK | October 6, 2014
The launch of the new NHS e-Referral service has been delayed until spring 2015, the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has announced...
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NHS Launches Upgraded IT Backbone Spine, Powered By Riak
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Basho Technologies |
September 9, 2014
London, Sept. 9 2014 – the Spine – the electronic backbone of the UK’s National Health Service – has been successfully rebuilt to harness new technology, including the use of Basho Technologies’ distributed database, Riak Enterprise. Read More »
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NHS Shifts From Ill-Fated Spine To Spine 2 [United Kingdom]
Sooraj Shah | Computing | August 27, 2014
The NHS Spine has been moved onto a new infrastructure by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) in an IT operation completed over the weekend. The Spine is a part of the national infrastructure that stores patient information and enables electronic messaging, it was part of the ill-fated NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT)...
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NHS Spine ‘Successfully’ Rebuilt, Says HSCIC
Sooraj Shah | Computing | September 9, 2014
The NHS Spine 2 has been "successfully" rebuilt and launched, according to the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC). The Spine is a part of the national infrastructure that stores patient information and enables electronic messaging; it was one of the only parts of the ill-fated NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) that emerged with some credibility...
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Success Story of the UK’s First Open Source EHR/EPR to be Revealed at EHI Live
Press Release |
IMS MAXIMS |
October 26, 2015
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The Transition From Spine To Spine 2 - A Success Story Or Yet Another NHS IT Failure?
Sooraj Shah | Computing | September 17, 2014
Since the winding down of what had been described by MPs as the “worst and most expensive contracting fiasco in the history of the public sector”, the National Programme of IT (NPfIT), little has been left for the NHS to savour. That is aside from NHS’s Spine, the part of the national infrastructure that stores patient information and enables electronic messaging...
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UK NHS Delivers Ambitious Health IT Project - Believed to be the Biggest of its Kind
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HSCIC |
February 17, 2016
HSCIC has just completed an ambitious 18 month transition project to entirely rebuild and redevelop the Spine on Open Source software and to move it to in-house management. This was achieved without disrupting the service it provides to 28,000 organisations and enabled the secure transfer of almost 150TB of data, including the demographic details of 80m people. The new Spine is believed to be the biggest public sector IT system to be built entirely on Open Source software, making it easier for developers to work with. It is managed from the Health and Social Care Information Centre's headquarters in Leeds.
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UK's HSCIC Wraps Up NHS Open Source Spine Transition
Mark Say | UKAuthority.com | February 18, 2016
Work on moving the NHS Spine to in-house management and redeveloping it to run on open source software has been completed, following an 18 month transition project run by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC). The organisation said it believes the Spine, which provides the technological backbone for connections between clinicians and service providers in NHS England, is now the largest public sector IT system to be built entirely on open source, and this will make it easier for developers to work with.
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