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Get Set For The Digital Health Festival

Staff Writer | eHealth Insider | March 13, 2014

EHealth Insider is launching a new Digital Health Festival to “take the pulse of digital health.”  Taking inspiration from music and cultural festivals, there will be a series of conferences, meetings and social events taking place at different venues at different times from 30 April to 16 May.

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Moorfields Ready To Open Eyes

Rebecca Todd | eHealth Insider | August 22, 2012

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is going live with the first three clinical modules of its open source electronic patient record early next month. Read More »

Open Eyes And Raspberry Pis

Rebecca Todd | E-Health Insider | March 26, 2014

An open source electronic patient record system developed at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will be deployed across 40 sites in developing Commonwealth countries.  Part of the project involves developing the EPR to run on the low cost Raspberry Pi computers and mobile devices.

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Open Source Focus For UK's 'Tech Fund 2'

Sam Sachdeva | E Health Insider | May 15, 2014

A focus on open source solutions in the second round of the technology fund has been welcomed by suppliers, who say they expect significant interest from trusts.  Applications have opened for the second round of what is now called the Integrated Digital Care Fund, with a ‘prospectus’ released yesterday outlining details for the £240m of funding...

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Open Your Eyes

Rebecca Todd | eHealth Insider | August 21, 2012

Bill Aylward’s experience as a “frustrated medical director” at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust led to him taking on an open source electronic patient record project. Rebecca Todd reports. Read More »

Seven For ‘13

Ewan Davis | eHealth Insider | December 20, 2012

Ewan Davis looks back at 2012 and identifies the trends – from hackdays to open source to patient-held records – that will reshape NHS IT in 2013 and beyond. Read More »

What is openEHR and why is it important?

NHS Wales Informatics Services has been carrying out a technical evaluation into openEHR to test its viability as a repository for structured clinical data. The technology will be rolled out soon to support national projects such as Accelerating Cancer and to provide a shared medications record for NHS Wales. openEHR...offers a specification for a vendor neutral approach to open standards based clinical models and software. On top of this, we can build digital patient records and applications. And as it is a specification, openEHR based tools and repositories are available from several vendors but importantly, they all promise compatibility with each other's products. This means data held in one openEHR Clinical Data Repository (CDR) can be surfaced in a variety of places, natively supporting federated approaches for stakeholder organizations.

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