
Joe’s view: Can the NHS bear to be special?
Joe McDonald is worried that “NHS special” technology services are coming at too high a development and financial cost to be sustainable. Time to use other people’s infrastructure and ideas…
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Joe McDonald is worried that “NHS special” technology services are coming at too high a development and financial cost to be sustainable. Time to use other people’s infrastructure and ideas…
GP John Lockley points out that people use Google because it works; while they use NHS software because they have to or are ‘incentivised’ to. This, he adds, needs to change.
Dr John Lockley argues that conflicts of interest are inevitable. It’s how you deal with them – and whether you make them work for all concerned – that counts.
Joe McDonald explains why Digital Health and the CCIO Network are running a survey of usability of electronic patient records – and urges all those who want better software to take part.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the first to back the Clinical Software Usability Survey, launched by Digital Health and the Chief Clinical Information Officer Leaders Network.
As a programmer, John Lockley was inspired by computing pioneers who wanted to keep things simple. Now, as a GP and CCG member, he thinks it’s time for the NHS to absorb the same thinking.