As ever when I attempt to write a blog here I have stumbled across several topics I want to delve...

Last Thursday, I joined Shrewsbury’s leading (and only) Science and Philosophy group, the Hmmm...

Last week we flew to Gothenburg, Sweden for Medical Informatics Europe’s 2018 conference, hosted...

We are preparing for the HL7 DataThon at the Medical Informatics Europe conference in Gothenburg,...

Trying to find an appropriate tool for editing pathways has not been easy. Even the search terms...

Anonymisation techniques – either encrypting or removing personally identifiable information -...

Cross-sectoral action for health is crucial. The transport networks of our cities, the amount of...

A healthy environment contributes to a healthy population. For example, when planning housing or...

Last week we attended the Birmingham in Real Time (BiRT) Network Resilience Challenges Workshop...

Health inequalities are largely driven by socio-economic factors, and thus determined outside of...

Far too many projects have no follow-up at all. The job is done and everyone moves on. ...

The NHS has rightly said that having a standard terminology will make a real difference to the...

Healthcare can be seen as a complex adaptive system, as can the information that underpins,...

Managing scope is a key part of delivering a successful project - and this is particularly true...

Excellent comment by Mary Hawkins on the EHI article. There is a lack of evidence for most...

The Olympics venues in London have been built with reuse in mind, building on the ideas of the...

Open access to interface specifications and example data for all healthcare IT systems funded by...

Formal healthcare information standards organisations are always working to engage effectively...

The recent post by Keith Boone suggesting that healthcare information topics should be taught in...

"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" is a mantra that works for the environment, but how does it play out in...