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Farewell to Ruthless Standardisation

By Ewan | 2nd September 2014 |

“Ruthless Standardisation” was the failed mantra of the NHS National Programme for IT. The Programme is dead, but in some places this view still persist but it is time to consign it to history as something else that “seemed a good idea at the time” In a previous blog I said “Standards are a Barrier to…

VistA for the NHS

By Ewan | 25th July 2012

Ewan Davis – Director of Woodcote Consulting shares his thoughts on VistA VistA is the open source electronic health record (EHR) system developed and used in the American Veteran’s Health Administration (VA). It is widely acknowledged that over recent years the VA has transformed itself from one of the worst healthcare provider to probably the best in the USA with its use…

Tonsillitis Pen V

By Ewan | 8th March 2011 |

What you might have seen in a GP record circa 1980, if you could have read the handwriting! Early GP computing was fighting the hardware. How could we get 6000 patient records on a pair of 8 inch floppy disks (well under 1Mb)? The terse style of GP records gave us a chance, particularly if…