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BE: Government publishes source code for election software
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| The Belgian government this week has made available to the public the source
| code of the applications used for the regional and European elections held on
| 7 June, Digivote and Jites.
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| The same software will be used in upcoming elections.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/be-government-publishes-source-code-for-election-software
NHS tech agency touts use of open source
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| NHS Connecting for Health is using open source to collaborate with other
| countries' health services in building specialist informatics software.
|
| Ken Lunn, CfH's director of data standards and products, said the
| organisation is agnostic towards open-source software, and uses it where it
| makes sense to do so.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39663075,00.htm
Recent:
Open source software - has its time come?
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| If you ask Tom Watson, the UK's minister for digital engagement, the answer
| would be a resounding yes. Recently he issued a rallying cry for government
| to adopt open source technology in far greater volumes than it has in the
| past (and this is despite the fact that 35% of NHS organisations already use
| Linux in the backbone).
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http://blog.procurementleaders.com/procurement-blog/2009/4/17/open-source-software-has-its-time-come.html
HIMSS going open source?
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| Ed Dodds pointed me to this, and while it’s not a big story it’s a good
| indication of where we’re going.
|
| HealthCareIT News, published by Medtech Publishing in partnership with the
| HIMSS trade group, has become a Drupal shop.
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http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=1682
A Different VistA for the NHS?
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| As I noted earlier last year, the Open Health Tools Foundation mentioned
| above was actually co-founded by a group of organisations including NHS
| Connecting for Health. This latest move of DSS should strengthen the OHT
| Foundation enormously, and make VistA even more attractive to healthcare
| providers around the world - including the NHS. Could this be the straw that
| finally broke the proprietary camel's back in UK healthcare? What will be the
| NHS's, er, view?
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=1714
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NHS chief explains NPfIT delays
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| The chief executive of the National Health Service has told MPs that
| complexity and customisation have been the main causes in delaying England's
| National Programme for IT.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/nicholson_npfit_delays/
NHS IT 'at least four years late'
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| It will be at least 2014 - four years later than planned - before a single
| NHS electronic patient records system is in place in England, say auditors.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7403286.stm
NHS IT loses its interim head
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| The project threatens to be the world's largest ever public sector IT
| project. Provider Accenture withdrew from it in 2006 and another key partner,
| healthcare records provider iSoft, got stuck in a lengthy takeover battle
| before being bought by IBA in October 2007.
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| The £12bn project is already running late and has struggled to win the hearts
| and minds of healthcare professionals.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/10/npfit_loses_head/
UK Gov department's IT spend is £2 billion over budget
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| THE DEPARTMENT for Work and Pensions has admitted the true cost over-runs of
| its IT projects.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/04/dwp-really-2bn-budget
Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policy
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| "A member of Parliament of the United Kingdom has launched a stinging
| attack on the U.K. government's IT strategy, saying that it has given
| Microsoft too much control.
|
| John Pugh, who is a member of Parliament, or MP, for Southport and a
| member of the Public Accounts Committee, was speaking in an
| adjournment debate on Tuesday that he had called. The aim of the
| debate, he said, was to explore the alternatives to using Microsoft
| software, including open source."
|
| [...]
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http://www.news.com/Lawmaker-blasts-U.K.-government-on-Microsoft-policy/2100-1012_3-6212721.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ashm2
Interview with Richard M. Stallman
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| It is important to know this because we will always face pressure, from those
| who are powerful and would like to take away our freedom, to surrender our
| freedom—and they frequently offer us something attractive in exchange. For
| instance, B’liar wanted to abolish the Rights of Englishmen, and to serve his
| American master, Bush, faithfully; so he offered Britons “protection” from
| this or that, plus the imagined idea that he influences his master on their
| behalf through the “special relationship”.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/interview_with_richard_stallman
iSoft in critical condition as NHS trusts seek alternatives
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| The government's vision of an integrated computer system for the
| NHS is coming apart at the seams as NHS trusts are to start looking
| for alternative IT suppliers, The Guardian reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/05/nhs_upgrade_alt/
Microsoft in the NHS
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| Microsoft is one of the key technology firms in the £6.2 billion NHS
| IT programme. It is working particularly closely with iSOFT ...
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http://www.e-health-insider.com/comment_and_analysis/index.cfm?ID=69
Prescription for an I.T. Disaster?
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| In 2002, the British government embarked on a $12 billion effort to
| transform its health-care system with information technology. But
| the country's oversight agency now puts that figure at $24 billion,
| and two Members of Parliament say the project is "sleepwalking
| toward disaster."
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http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2058194,00.asp
NHS computer boss failed IT exams
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| Mary Granger is amazed that her son was put in charge of a £20bn
| project to transform the NHS's computer system. She is less
| surprised that his 'Connecting for Health' project is over-budget,
| behind schedule and threatening to become the biggest IT disaster
| in history.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35685
NHS Scotland pools budget for Microsoft savings
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| NHS National Services Scotland forecasts it will save up to £8m over
| three years from a new procurement deal with Microsoft
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/30/scottish_nhs_microsoft_procurement_deal/
Accenture escapes £1bn penalty for NHS walk-out
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| Accenture, the IT and consultancy firm has avoided huge penalty fees for
| withdrawing from the UK National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/29/accenture_nhs_penalty/
Accenture: NHS failure is 'track record for success'
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| After months of negotiations, Accenture handed contracts worth £2bn over
| to rival Computer Sciences Corporation after getting paid just £110m
| for spending a third of the allotted 10 years on the job. Its hand had
| been forced by losses of $450m it was set to make on the deal this
| year.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/09/28/accenture_failure_success/
CfH refutes computer failure claims
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| "Very often they are not major incidents as such, but could be caused when
| a patient administration system is running slow or there may be problems
| with the local network. The severity level is attributed by the user and
| this is subsequently very often down graded or amended."
|
| Many of the incidents that have been reported by CfH include failure of
| the systems used by surgeons to see X-ray pictures on a computer screen
| in wards and operating theatres. On some occasions the system is believed
| to have crashed during an operation, forcing surgeons to suspend the
| procedure while a hard copy of the X-ray is found.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/19/cfh_defends_itself/
NHS Direct all better
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| NHS Direct is back online this afternoon after going on the sick
| with a server error earlier today.
|
| According to Netcraft, the Windows 2000 server at the bargain
| basement hypochondriac magnet modern, accessible public healthcare
| resource was rebooted today. See here.
|
| Whatever malady did for the box, it was "unexpected", as the message
| on the site explained for most of today.
|
| NHS Direct was unavailable for comment at time of writing.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/10/nhsdirect_back/
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