Informaticopia

Thursday, November 04, 2004

Microsoft wins �500m NHS contract - ZDNet UK News

Microsoft wins �500m NHS contract - ZDNet UK News

It appears from this report that the NHS has placed a major contract (? £500m) with Microsoft over the next 9 years.

Although financial savings are claimed the implications of this deal for future developments in IT software for the NHS are unclear and the "Open Source Movement" are unhappy about tying the NHS to proprietry brands.

Sunday, October 31, 2004

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Following last weeks article in the Guardian on Wikipedia I've been learning my way around the interface & editing some local pages eg Chew Valley Lake and encouraging others to contribute to the nursing & health informatics related pages.

I think this demonstrates an interesting way of developing shared information resources - I wonder if I could get the RDN interested?

I thought I'd better find about about these ways of working as it has been proposed that we use something similar for the record of the Health Informatics Education Radical Steps meeting being planned for March.