Bill Aylward
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Innovative App First Step On Way To Virtual Glaucoma Clinics
“Virtual clinics are a way of improving living with glaucoma by reducing the patient′s need for regular travel” - Moorfields Eye Hospital has worked with core tech partners to develop a prototype it says could revolutionise the treatment of one of the most common eye diseases Read More »
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Moorfield's OpenEyes catches award judges’ eyes
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been shortlisted for a clinical IT leadership award for OpenEyes, its open source electronic patient record system, in the E-Health Insider (EHI) Awards 2012. The EHI Awards reward excellence in healthcare IT and are judged by a panel of distinguished industry experts. The winner will be announced during an awards ceremony in London in October.
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Moorfields Develops Virtual Glaucoma Clinic
Moorfields Eye Hospital has developed a pilot iPad application to enable the running of virtual glaucoma clinics. Read More »
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Moorfields NHS Trust Deploys Open Source Clinical Modules
Moorfields eye hospital NHS foundation trust has said that it has added three new modules for prescribing, operations notes and correspondence to OpenEyes, its open source (OS) e-patient record system. Read More »
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NHS England Creates Open Source 'Super' Community Organization
NHS England has set up a ‘super CIC’ to act as a centre of excellence and attract funding for open source projects within health and social care. Peter Coates, NHS England's open source programme manager, told Digital Health News the new community interest company has already received a number of grants, including money from NHS England, to progress outcomes around urgent care and the Code4Health programme.
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Open Eyes And Raspberry Pis
An open source electronic patient record system developed at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will be deployed across 40 sites in developing Commonwealth countries. Part of the project involves developing the EPR to run on the low cost Raspberry Pi computers and mobile devices.
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Open Source Focus For UK's 'Tech Fund 2'
A focus on open source solutions in the second round of the technology fund has been welcomed by suppliers, who say they expect significant interest from trusts. Applications have opened for the second round of what is now called the Integrated Digital Care Fund, with a ‘prospectus’ released yesterday outlining details for the £240m of funding...
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Open Source Software Foundation Implements suiteCRM to Support Code4Health
NHS finances are under intense pressure and demand for services is rising. Something has to give and business as usual is not an option. NHS England recognised this when it supported the establishment of Code4Health, an initiative that stimulates and supports IT innovation in healthcare. One of outcomes of the initiative was to establish an open source (OS) practice, reaching out to an increasing number of open source projects, providing software suitable for use across UK health and care. Read More »
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Open Your Eyes
Bill Aylward’s experience as a “frustrated medical director” at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust led to him taking on an open source electronic patient record project. Rebecca Todd reports. Read More »
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OpenEyes Foundation Joins Forces With The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust And Partners In The Fight Against Avoidable Blindness
The OpenEyes Foundation is today delighted to be named as one of 11 expert institutions from across the Commonwealth who have come together for the first time as the Commonwealth Eye Health Consortium, thanks to a £7.1 million grant from The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust.).
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Overview of Open Source and VistA in the UK's NHS
There is much widely publicised interest from NHS England in encouraging the development and implementation of open-source software in the National Health System (NHS) with the debate raging in a number of forums, notably on EHI where this article and the comments it has generated are vital reading for anyone interested in this issue. This debate has been fueled by the availability of NHS England’s £260 million Technology Fund which is actively soliciting open source projects include bids to implement an NHS VistA... Read More »
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SalesAgility and Apperta release SuiteCRM NHS Edition
This week SalesAgility and the Apperta Foundation announced their partnership to deliver SuiteCRM NHS Edition. Based upon the award winning open source SuiteCRM application the enterprise ready CRM application is now available on the Apperta Github for general use across the NHS, Local Authorities , health and care related sectors. Led by clinicians, the Apperta Foundation is a not-for-profit, non-dividend paying Community Interest Company that brings open products and services to market that truly transform the delivery of care for professionals and people...
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