An ecosystem transition working group has been established by the KTP project and ecosystem steering group to oversee the transition process. This working group has agreed to transfer the leadership roles from the Department of Health Informatics Directorate to volunteer members of the community (for roles and responsibilities please refer to the transition document). There are still roles available to volunteer for; please refer to the Appendix B of the transition document.
The KTP project is currently working with a number of community members to manage the transition process with the aim of completing this by the 16th of September 2011. The new leaders in the eHealthOpenSource.org community will continue to look after those community-owned assets and to develop them collaboratively with the wider community.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all your support in the past two years in getting the eHealthOpenSource.org community up and running. We hope that you will continue to contribute to the community. If you have any questions regarding the transition please do not hesitate to contact us at ying.liao@nhs.net.
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]]>The Smart Healthcare Live Open Source Awards with an aim of recognising Open Source excellence in health and social care, supported by the IHE, iSOFT and the eHealthOpenSource.org community, has announced the winners today.
The Judging Panel consisted of open source practitioners, academics, software vendors and clinicians have recognised the OpenEyes from Moorfields Eye Hospital as the most compelling business case of open source solution and Misys Connect ™ Portal from Misys Open Source Solution as the best use of open source in health and social care.
OpenEyes is a collaborative, open source, project led by Moorfields Eye Hospital. The goal is to produce a framework which will allow the rapid, and continuous development of web-based electronic patient records (EPR), with contributions from Hospitals, Institutions, Academic departments, Companies, and Individuals.
The Misys Connect ™ Portal is a core element of a community solution that provides clinicians and other members of the care team with the right information at the right time by making patient information available across organizational boundaries and venues of care. It not only facilitates and streamlines the sharing of patient information throughout the healthcare delivery system but provides a single web destination where individual provider-facing web applications – such as ePrescribing, referral management, physician inbox with lab results – can be consolidated and accessed seamlessly by the clinician.
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]]>If you are a health IT supplier, this would be the best chance for you to influence the long-term strategy and vision of the eHealthOpenSource ecosystem. Click here to participate.
Please be noted that both surveys are closing on 31st of July.
If you have any inquiries, please no hesitate to contact us at info@ehealthopensource.org.
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The trust, which is one of the largest in the country, has a five year, £35m strategy to invest in IT, and is looking to an integration and portal approach to make up for “underinvestment” during the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
Full article is available on the e-Health Insdier
]]>The strategy will improve and open up public service delivery by supporting online transactional services for citizens and businesses, and create channels for collaboration and policy debate.
To ensure that we continue to improve our ICT delivery, we will move away from very large programmes to a greater number of smaller and more agile projects. We will create a common ICT infrastructure built on a set of common and, where necessary, mandated open standards.
Through greater transparency and the publication of details on Government contracts we will reduce bureaucracy and encourage more small and medium sized enterprises to participate directly in the delivery of Government ICT
]]>he government will aim to become a "single intelligent procurer of ICT", according to its strategy, and will develop a procurement process designed to make it easier for SMEs to gain government contracts. The government said it will publish guidance within six months on prerequisites for IT projects worth over £100m.
In the interests of interoperability, the government will establish an open-source implementation group, a system integrator forum and an open-source advisory panel, to promote open source. The government will also publish a toolkit for open-source procurement.
Please visit Digital Gov for more details.
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