elgg in healthcare
DESCRIPTION
The presentation given by Malcolm Newbury at the London Elgg Meetup on 23rd November 2011TRANSCRIPT
Open Source for the NHS
A new relationship with software
Malcolm NewburyConsultant Director Guildfoss Date: 23rd November 2011
Serving Open
Enterprise
About me
Guildfoss - last 2 years▬ Open Source Business Development Consulting
Previously▬ Sun Micro : HC Open Source infrastructure ▬ SeeBeyond : NHS integration platforms and Spine▬ PA Consulting : NHS/public sector data sharing
projects Also, IHE-UK supplier co-chair Using Elgg as a business tool for healthcare
projects
Current Healthcare Projects
HIEOS – IHE Cross enterprise document sharing for US NHIN
Sintero research informatics project BRISSKit research informatics service OpenEyes – Opthamology EMR Moorfields Various Skunkworks projects Huggle – healthcare social media platform
demonstrator
Key requirements for healthcare software
INTEGRATED CARE RECORDSINTEGRATED CARE RECORDS
INTEROPERABILITYINTEROPERABILITY
SECONDARY USES DATASECONDARY USES DATA
OK - So how do I acquire it?
Skunkworks
Express a real CLINICAL challenge Select most appropriate OPEN SOURCE software
Develop a LEARNING process around the interaction of developer and clinician
Review, revise and repeat, remove RISK & uncertainty Provide/Procure SUPPORT in LIVE production
“a term widely used in business, engineering, and technical fields to describe a group tasked with working on advanced innovative projects, with a high degree of autonomy and unhampered by bureaucracy”
Huggle Refactoring of Elgg
User = Patient/Clinician/Researcher/family member Friend = Fellow sufferer/patient with same condition – not
clinician not family member! Closed Group = CareRecord Group members: invited users only Group managed by patient or by other group member Group Album = DICOM CT scans, Optometry pics Group Blog = Patient and Clinical Notes Group Event = Consultant Appointments Bookmarks = Bookmarks Wire = Microblog? Activity = Activity Group Activity = Care Record activity