Open Source

I’ve been nominated for EHI Healthcare IT Champion 2013. Vote for me and give your support to “playing nicely together”! Its a great honour to be nominated by my peers for an award which seeks to recognise commitment and achievement above and beyond someone’s day job. Sure, I run Tactix4 which provides services and support for opensource solutions to the NHS but I’ve been involved in plenty more these past 24 months which have shaped policy, practice and procurement of technology for healthcare IT in the UK....

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

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.

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)