SPINE 2
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New NHS database will succeed with open source and agile, says supplier
The success of the NHS’ new national database, dubbed SPINE 2, will be down to the use of open source technologies and agile development techniques, according to its supplier BJSS. The original SPINE database was core to the previous government’s failed National Programme for IT (NPfIT). Read More »
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NHS Open-Source Spine 2 Platform To Go Live Next Week
A new iteration of the NHS platform that connects clinicians, patients and national applications is due to be completed this coming weekend. Considered by the government to be critical national infrastructure, the Spine platform is a communications hub that connects key IT services developed as part of the troubled NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT)...
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Small Firms And Open-Source Software Put Spine Back Into NHS After IT Fiasco
Without the fuss and delays that have plagued so many large government IT projects, a key part of the NHS digital infrastructure was recently migrated and updated in a single weekend...
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The Transition From Spine To Spine 2 - A Success Story Or Yet Another NHS IT Failure?
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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