[okfn-discuss] Open Standards for the NHS?

Fri Oct 5 19:32:15 UTC 2012

On 10/05/2012 09:25 AM, Lucy Chambers wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Thought this might possibly be of interest. NHS is having a hackday
> next week 10-14 Oct, to help shape the next generation of their tech
> infrastructure. They've framed it as an 'open data platform' using
> real-anonymised data to address service delivery challenges:
>
> "The organisation has said the open data platform will also monitor
> the quantity and quality of community services, which costs the NHS
> more than £10 billion per year, through the national implementation of
> a ‘community information dataset’."
>
> http://www.ehi.co.uk/news/EHI/8095/open-data-platform-to-replace-sus

Oh has everyone seen this project:

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/la-cura-open-source-cure-interview-salvatore-iaconesi

It's very much about freeing up proprietary medical data.

- Rob.