Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> BCS to review NHS IT for Tories
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> | Shadow health secretary Stephen O'Brien MP has commissioned an
> | independent report from the British Computer Society on what English
> | health service IT should look like in five years' time.
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> | Beyond that patient-based records will form the basis of NHS
> | informatics, no assumptions are being made, according the review's chair
> | Dr Glyn Hayes, past chair of the BCS Health Informatics Forum.
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/22/bcs_nhs_it_review/
What the NHS should have done is to hire and follow open source
advocates and policies.
They should have specified that all projects be broken down
into simple tasks, and that all data interchange should be
in open simplified formats so that every local branch that
does it own business can download central data in open formats,
update it and upload it for more cetralised systems to process
again all with open sourced code. That way, every local branch
and can develop and reuse software as it sees fit without having to have
almighty centralised contractors eating up all the funds and
delivering proprietory products that DO NOT WORK.
NHS IT would become a stream of requests from local branches
which are then updated to the software as features.
And of course running everything on Linux means remote update
and maintenance without needing licenses whenever needs arise
and clinics expand.
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