Spread the tash
Spread the tash – join me growing a moustache in November to help tackle Prostate Cancer
Author: Nicholas
Restoring early communication technology
I’ve been looking to improve my home telephony. I recently migrated from a single Siemens Gigaset N510 IP Pro DECT base station as my only device to adding the free, on-premises version of 3CX as a local exchange. The “lines” …
Judy Faulkner, spaghetti and Elon’s I’m a celebrity – get out of here.
Like the sick blue parrot that tweets no more, the care record is trapped. Caged in vendors Electronic Medical Record management systems stuck on organisational islands and unable to move freely around its health and care ecosystem.
Freeing the care records stranded on islands of electronic medical records is critical if we are to join up care in England.
Judy Falkner has identified the barriers; I offer an alternative to her “solution”.
So what does it all mean? – Part 5 – Summaries
I’ve been looking back over 20 years to a functional and useful patient summary across 9 different sources and three NHS Trusts.
Mapping house names with Google
I’ve been wondering who is to blame for my parcels being delivered to a dirt track and I’ve now found out. It turns out Google can’t know everything!
So what does it all mean? – part 4 – Electronic records
Where should the meaning be stored?
Now I move to electronic records and explore some of the challenges that come with using modern databases to store health and records.
So what does it mean? – part 3 – forms
In this part of the “so what does it all mean?” series, I’m moving on from specific records to agreed forms designed to be filled in to become part of a person’s record. Part 1 of this series looked at …
So what does it all mean? – part 2 – hospital records
Case note written by Dr Charles West when treating 15 year old Harry Harries in 1861.
In part 1 of this “so what does it all mean?” series I gave an overview of the Lloyd George case note used in English General Practices from 1911. Now to move to hospitals. The illustrations are from the Historical …
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So what does it all mean? – part 1 – Lloyd George envelopes
The Lloyd George envelope was the mainstay of General Practice record keeping for a century. In the first post of the “What does it all mean?” series I look at it from a health informatics perspective and introduce a basic data model for the record.
New role – Volunteer crossing keeper
Oakworth Station Booking Office, Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
On Saturday I completed my training at Damens Station, the country’s smallest standard standard-gauge station, to become a volunteer crossing-keeper for the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway; yesterday I had my first turn, in charge of Oakworth Station. The station …