Open Source

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30 December 2013

Fourteen predictions for 2014

EHI asked a wide range of healthcare IT experts to look ahead to 2014 – in 140 characters or fewer.
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11 December 2013

First cut of VistA for NHS developed

Two US companies have worked with UK open source experts to create a ‘first cut’ of an anglicised version of
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5 December 2013

HP plans open source offer for NHS

Hewlett Packard is planning to provide a full electronic patient record system on the open source framework being developed by
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11 November 2013

Birmingham to offer PICS licence-free

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust will offer its Prescribing Information and Communication System to the NHS on a licence-free
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5 November 2013

£20m of tech fund to go on open source

Up to £20m of the 'Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards: Technology Fund' will go towards open source development.
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29 October 2013

HSCIC to support open source

The Health and Social Care Information Centre will extend its support for NHS organisations and providers using open source, open
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9 October 2013

Spine2 built on Riak database

The replacement for the NHS data Spine is being built around a distributed, open source database called Riak from US
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9 October 2013

Levin warns on NHS open source approach

The former chief technology officer of the US Department of Veterans Affairs has warned that NHS England’s bid to bring
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8 October 2013

Rising star: Elijah Charles

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has its own IT MacGyver; someone able to create inventions from simple items to
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30 September 2013

NHS England says no to VistA

NHS England has decided not to pay £7m to anglicise the US Veterans Health Administration’s open source electronic medical record,
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