HANDI - Selfish or Selfless: sorts of software for social systems

Presented to the HANDI Health Apps conference at EHILive 2013 and continuing my series of provocative and disruptive anti-presentations here I talk about approaches to developing, distributing and deploying software solutions in social systems. If you think this is an extended rant on the virtues of opensource, think again. Drawing on Mauss, Dawkins, Benkler, Chesbrough and others here I discuss how NHS organisations and software developers and vendors can each have cake and eat it....

November 9, 2013 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

My HANDI Health 'live coding' workshop.

The Village This last week I was at EHI Live with HANDI and Tactix4. HANDI were producing one of the streams at this exhibition ‘The HANDI Health Apps Conference’. HANDI Health Apps is the first national conference dedicated to health & social care apps and lightweight digital tools to take place in the UK. It was a “must attend” event for app developers, health and care professionals, managers and commissioners who are seeking to understand how this new generation of digital tools can support the delivery of efficient, patient centred care. The conference included the HANDI-App Village located right in the centre of the EHI Live Exhibition providing a unique platform where health and care app developers can showcase their products without getting lost amongst the large stands of the major IT vendors. And we had a village pub, serving real beer and excellent pork scratchings. I thought it was a good idea to ‘live code’ an app. In hind sight it was a good idea to ‘live code’ an app and, except for the failure of the internet link, it would have worked well. Thankfully, as a child of Blue Peter, I had an app that I had made earlier prepared and ready installed on my device. With this APK file I was able to demo an app that scanned a barcode containing a URL and launch a browser. Here is the APK and here is the QR code. ...

November 9, 2013 · 4 min · Rob Dyke

Digidoc 2012

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December 31, 2012 · 2 min · Rob Dyke

Talking HANDI and opensource

A couple of video interviews with me made with Pete Cogle from Inside Talking.

December 31, 2012 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

The HANDI approach to innovation.

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. ...

December 11, 2012 · 2 min · Rob Dyke