The document discusses openness in healthcare and calls for open APIs, open standards, and open source software. It notes how openness empowers collaboration, provides competitive advantages, and fits with medical culture. Specific actions encouraged include demanding truly open APIs and open standards, supporting open source, joining HANDI, and participating in the NHS Hack Day to help advance these principles.

1. Rob Dyke
Primary Health Info 2012
Dr Opensource
(H ow I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)

2. Doctor Opensource
On openness
What do we want?
When do we want it?
Call to action
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3. Openness...
... empowers social collaboration and co-
production
… gives a competitive advantage through lower
costs, more innovation, higher quality
… is standard practice in technology industry
.. fits with the openness found in medical and
academic culture : No black boxes
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4. What do we want?
Open
APIs
Open Standards
Open Source
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5. What do we want?
Open APIs
“To thrive, these developers need APIs. Lots of them,
though standardized and well-documented.”
Open Standards
“The economic outcome of a free and open standard, is
that it enables perfect competition between suppliers of
products based on the standard.”
Open Source
Create reference implementations which reveal
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6. When do we want it?
Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use:
Government Action Plan; 2009 and 2010
eHealthOpensource 2009/11
CfH Knowledge Transfer Partnership
EHI Skunkworks 2011
Cabinet Office Procurement Guidance 2011
NHS Hack Day 2012
Primary Health Info 2012, , rob@tactix4.com
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7. When do we want it?
We are talking about it more and more...
250
200
150
Articles on EHI
100
50
0
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
google://?site:ehi.co.uk 'open source'
(2012 based on hits 1/1/12 to 21/4/2012*4)
Primary Health Info 2012, , rob@tactix4.com
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8. When do we want it?
HSCIC Open Data Platform
G-Cloud
Redbridge PCT & NHS South of Tyne and Wear
have both bought open source BI tools
KCH Partners, UCL Partners, EMIS &
Primary Health Info 2012, , rob@tactix4.com
26/04/12 @robdykedotcom @tactix4

9. Calls to action
Demand open APIs (truely open APIs)
Demand open standards
Respond to Cabinet Office open standards
consultation
Demand open source
Primary Health Info 2012, , rob@tactix4.com
26/04/12 @robdykedotcom @tactix4

10. Practical steps....
Join HANDI
Signup for the NHS Hack Day
or run one locally....
Primary Health Info 2012, , rob@tactix4.com
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11. THE END
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