NHS Open Source Programme

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NHS Open Source Programme Code 4 Health
Peter Coates
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Current Challenges and Issues

• Lack of satisfaction for clinicians with current
  system
• Issues of usability
• Speed and cost of modification and integrations
• EHR as a medical device Would you trust your
  life to software that you cannot see
• To give us a fighting chance

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- Vision
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Why use Open Source in NHS?

• Increases the range of digital solutions
  available to NHS organisations, at the level
  appropriate to them
• Organisations do not need a team of developers to
  use them
• Supports progression along the CDMI
• Supports greater and more direct clinical
  engagement in product development, making
  products more useful, usable and used
• Facilitates sharing of investment and innovation
  across the NHS
• Encourages sharing of best-practice in using the
  technology
• As safe to use as proprietary software

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How can Open Source be used in the NHS?

• Large scale clinical or administrative
  applications
• Speciality based products
• Apps and services focused on mobility, safety,
  efficiency etc
• Patient facing services
• Integration and interoperability
• Not only code but configuration
• Supporting software that underpins

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How will this be achieved?

• Create a market of viable Open Source solutions,
  for them to be considered equally with
  proprietary options
• Provide evidence of the value of Open Source to
  the wider Health and Social Care Community
• Ensure by default all code created in the NHS is
  shared as part of a Library of assets for re-use
• Ensure a level playing field for Open Source
  commodity infrastructure services

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- Overview
Learning
Communities
Challenge
Platform
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- Supporters
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- Learning
App in day

• 12 courses running throughout March and April
• 120 healthcare professionals learning to build
  apps in
• Apps based on clinical communication, peak flow
  and decision making
• Feedback collated as part of session
• Developments submitted back to Code4Health
  platform
• 1 years worth of support to those involved
• App in a Day at Health Insights
• Birmingham 17th June
• Newcastle 24th June

KEY
Booked courses Dates to be confirmed
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- Communities
Code4Health Team
17 Code4Health Communities
Supporters
Health Care Organisations
Solution(s)
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- Custodian Model
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Open Source Software Foundation for Health Care
CIC
Open Source Software Foundation for Health Care
CIC
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For more Information
england.code4health_at_nhs.net www.england.nhs.uk/co
de4health _at_NHSOpenSource _at_code4health
Peter Coates NHS England Open Source Programme
Head 07798 725131 petercoates_at_nhs.net David
Jobling Community Development Lead 07818 522951
d.Jobling_at_nhs.net