Open Source for the NHS

A new relationship with software

Malcolm NewburyConsultant Director Guildfoss Date: 23rd November 2011

Serving Open

Enterprise

About me

Guildfoss - last 2 years▬ Open Source Business Development Consulting

Previously▬ Sun Micro : HC Open Source infrastructure ▬ SeeBeyond : NHS integration platforms and Spine▬ PA Consulting : NHS/public sector data sharing

projects Also, IHE-UK supplier co-chair Using Elgg as a business tool for healthcare

projects

Current Healthcare Projects

HIEOS – IHE Cross enterprise document sharing for US NHIN

Sintero research informatics project BRISSKit research informatics service OpenEyes – Opthamology EMR Moorfields Various Skunkworks projects Huggle – healthcare social media platform

demonstrator

Key requirements for healthcare software

INTEGRATED CARE RECORDSINTEGRATED CARE RECORDS

INTEROPERABILITYINTEROPERABILITY

SECONDARY USES DATASECONDARY USES DATA

OK - So how do I acquire it?

Skunkworks

Express a real CLINICAL challenge Select most appropriate OPEN SOURCE software

Develop a LEARNING process around the interaction of developer and clinician

Review, revise and repeat, remove RISK & uncertainty Provide/Procure SUPPORT in LIVE production

“a term widely used in business, engineering, and technical fields to describe a group tasked with working on advanced innovative projects, with a high degree of autonomy and unhampered by bureaucracy”

Huggle Refactoring of Elgg

User = Patient/Clinician/Researcher/family member Friend = Fellow sufferer/patient with same condition – not

clinician not family member! Closed Group = CareRecord Group members: invited users only Group managed by patient or by other group member Group Album = DICOM CT scans, Optometry pics Group Blog = Patient and Clinical Notes Group Event = Consultant Appointments Bookmarks = Bookmarks Wire = Microblog? Activity = Activity Group Activity = Care Record activity

THANK YOU

Malcolm NewburyConsultant Director Guildfoss Date: 23rd November 2011

Serving Open

Enterprise