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King’s rolls out Wardware

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has rolled-out an open source nursing observations system, Wardware, to 12 wards.
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Coding sub-zero

Despite a lack of heating and a rather unreliable internet connection, spirits were high at NHS Hack Day, Oxford. Lis
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Heart a-hack

A group of clinicians and developers won NHS Hack Day Oxford with an open source electronic patient record for cardiologists.
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2012 changes to be felt in 2013

The transition away from the National Programme for IT in the NHS is finally underway and will gather speed in
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Seven for ‘13

Ewan Davis looks back at 2012 and identifies the trends – from hackdays to open source to patient-held records –
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Funding needed for openGPSoC

The people behind a scheme to develop an open source GP clinical system are in talks with providers about raising
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Open standards principles published

All government bodies must comply with new open standards principals designed to make government IT more open, cheaper and better
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Small is beautiful

Everybody loved SMEs at EHI Live 2012; although a few would like to feel the love as cold, hard cash.
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Skunkworks opens up IT for debate

Healthcare communities need to take responsibility for establishing the interoperability of IT systems, said one of the speakers during the
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Open standards due in Autumn

The public consultation on open standards for government IT is with ministers for consideration and the outcome is likely to
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