I’m pleased that my company Tactix4 has won two awards from The Information Sharing Challenge Fund, a Department of Health initiative funding ideas that change the way information is used and shared between different organisations. Two NHS Trusts bid with Tactix4 demonstrating that our ideas showed value for money that could easily be adopted by other NHS organisations as part of the NHS Interoperability Toolkit (ITK). ...

Here are a few videos produced by event amplifier Kirsty Pitkin at EHI Live Skunkworks 2012 showing me presenting my recent projects with openGPSoC and Tactix4.

Dick Vinegar, the Patient From Hell, wrote about the Westminster Health Forum last month on “accelerating innovation in healthcare” at which I was presenting. I gave a somewhat contrarian view on ‘innovation’ with a few ideas on escaping the NHS Giant Hairball. My presentation is published on slideshare and previewed below. ...

In my job at Tactix4 I worked with others in the opensource and healthcare space to produce this briefing note for Cabinet Office on the use of hackdays to achieve a level playing field for Open Source in procurement and production. This short note was produced in response to a request from Liam Maxwell made at EHI Live 2012 to investigate how hackdays could help procurement. Contributors Malcolm Newbury (Guildfoss, Consultant) Mahendra Mahey (University of Bath, Project Manager of the DevCSI Project) John Pyle (Independent Procurement Consultant) Ewan Davis (Woodcote Consulting, Consultant) Scott Wilson (Service Manager, OSS Watch and Assistant Director, CETIS) Eckhard Schwarzat (ValueDecision, Consultant)

A selection of videos from NHSHackdays (London � Liverpool) 2012 showing the Patient List Hack (London winner) and the AsKiT hack (Liverpool second place).