Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has selected an open source electronic patient record (EPR) called openMAXIMS from healthcare software provider IMS MAXIMS, to improve the recording and sharing of patient data across its hospital and community sites. The open source approach is expected to save the trust several million pounds in licence fees and future development costs, while also providing more control on how the software is developed in line with the hospital’s needs. Implementation started in December 2015 and once rolled out, Blackpool will become the third NHS trust to deploy the IMS MAXIMS open source EPR.
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UK's Blackpool Teaching Hospitals selects open source electronic patient records
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Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, openMAXIMS CIC, IMS MAXIMS |
January 7, 2016
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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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UK's Leeds City Council and Ripple Award Part of Open Source Health IT Project to Lockheed Martin
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Leeds City Council, Ripple |
June 13, 2016
Leeds City Council and Ripple have chosen Lockheed Martin to help deliver aspects of the open source IT development to build an integrated digital care record platform. Ripple has a vision to create an open source health and care platform that allows frontline staff access to the most up to date and joined up care information about an individual – driving better and safer care.
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UK's OA Policy Influences Research Assessment
Neil Jacobs | Research Information | August 11, 2014
The UK’s system for assessing research and allocating money has added new open-access requirements. Neil Jacobs looks at what this means for researchers in the UK and elsewhere...
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UK's Papworth Says No to Epic
Thomas Meek | Digital Health Intelligence | August 4, 2015
...However, in a meeting last week, board members came to the conclusion that Epic did not provide the best value for money for the trust, which is in the middle of a £165 million project to move to a new site at Cambridge Biomedical Campus...In a statement to Digital Health News, a spokesperson said: “Papworth Hospital is committed to providing the most intuitive and cutting edge ICT infrastructure to its staff, to ensure they are well equipped to offer patients the finest possible care in a modern healthcare setting, whilst also being affordable...
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UK's Security Branch Says Ubuntu Most Secure End-User OS
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | January 17, 2014
CESG, the UK government's arm that assesses operating systems and software security, has published its findings for ‘End User Device’ operating systems. The most secure of the lot? Ubuntu 12.04. Read More »
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UKs Tax Authority To Sell Taxpayers' Financial Data
Rowena Mason | The Guardian | April 18, 2014
The personal financial data of millions of [British] taxpayers could be sold to private firms under laws being drawn up by [His Majesty's (HM)] Revenue & Customs in a move branded "dangerous" by tax professionals and "borderline insane" by a senior Conservative MP.
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UK’s open access (OA) policies have global consequences
Danny Kingsley | The Conversation | September 17, 2013
...The UK has sought to be a leader in making publicly-funded research openly available but has taken a very different approach to Australia and even the European Commission. Read More »
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United Kingdom Eyes VA’s Electronic Health Record
Bob Brewin | Nextgov | March 25, 2013
The Veterans Affairs Department and the United Kingdom’s National Health Service have teamed up to share ideas, strategies and leadership for development of health information technology, opening the possibility that the NHS could use VA’s electronic health record system. Peter Levin, the former VA Chief Technology Officer who retired this month, told Nextgov the Pentagon also should adopt VA electronic health record. Read More »
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University College London Hospitals Deploys Open Source Patient List
Lis Evenstad and Rebecca Todd | E-Health Insider | April 14, 2014
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out an open source patient list web service. The system, from Open Health Care UK is called eICID, for Electronic Clinical Infections Database, and is being used by the infectious diseases, microbiology, and immune teams across the trust to help look after patients and support research and audit.
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US Digital Service is Born
By Gunnar Hellekson | August 12, 2014
Yesterday, the White House announced the formation of the US Digital Service, a cadre of technology sherpas meant to inject more modern commercial practices into government IT, especially the development of websites and mobile applications. It’s obviously inspired by the Government Digital Service, a similar effort in the UK, and the early success of the GSA’s 18F team. Read More »
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Use open source software - it makes things better, says UK
Toby Wolpe | ZDNet | March 18, 2013
Open source gets the official seal of approval from the UK government in new guidelines that mandate its use over proprietary products. Read More »
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Using Open Source in the Enterprise - 13 CIOs Embracing Free and Open Source Software
Edward Qualtrough | CIO | November 11, 2015
Open source enterprise use cases appear to be on the rise, at least anecdotally, with an increasing number of CIOs, IT directors and Chief Technology Officers telling CIO UK about investigating and adopting free and open source alternatives to proprietary software as they seek to gain freedom and flexibility, cut costs, increase agility, improve code quality and avoid vendor lock-in.
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VA, U.K. health service team up on IT
Joe Conn | Modern Healthcare | March 22, 2013
The healthcare arm of the Veterans Affairs Department and the United Kingdom's National Health Service are teaming up under a three-year agreement to swap leaders, staff and ideas about the use of healthcare information technology by the two huge government-financed systems, according to a new joint report. Read More »
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VistA and Emerging Business Opportunities ... $48.7 Million Empire State Award & 'Open Source' Health IT Market
Colleagues, Do I detect momentum? In recent months we have witnessed;
The DoD MEDICS RFI in which 3 to 4 VistA based solutions appear to viable procurement options ... Read More »
Posted September 24, 2013 - 8:43am by Conrad Clyburn
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