Ewan writes a historical view on why it worked.
I think:-
Too many of the factors allowing or encouraging success have been subsumed by the administration of the NHS now.
The time to move from closed source proprietary systems with what the NHS managers keep calling “silos” of information they encourage came a while back, and the opportunity remains to be seized, in the UK.
The Euro is on the whole a good thing, I think, but Greece is looking shaky. Actually Capitalism in its rapacious instantiation is looking shaky, although the problem of how better to solve accumulating surplus value still looks harder.
Well worth reading.
Good photographs.
Stallman lacks tact, and many people like to misquote and exaggerate or extrapolate, but he has not said anything ill of the dead he has not many times said ill of the living.
Jobs was a great man, few of these have been unflawed or wholly beneficial in all ways.
The lockout following wildcat strikes is a nuisance for anyone caught in it but the airline does seem likely to need changes against the current economy.
Panel Members:
Dr A Morgan, Chairman (Medical)
Dr Sheila Willatts (Medical)
Mr J Campbell (Lay)
Legal Assessor: Mrs A Black
Secretary to the Panel: Ms J Smith
“Ruling on the appeal, Lord Justice Girvan added:
“The internal inconsistencies in her previous version of events …”
“The finding by the panel that the patient presented as a consistent, reliable and credible witness is one that no tribunal properly directing itself on the evidence could have made in the circumstances.”
The GMC is currently presenting a series of questions on Facebook about how doctors should be regulated. Perhaps a useful exercise would be for them to ask how regulators should be regulated, and how they should work. The GMC has escaped the control of the profession it purports to protect and supervise, and has not demonstrated that it does not need to be controlled and supervised. It lacks the confidence of the profession which when we elected it it possessed.
Given the ASA Adjudication on its homeopathy advert why should this bunch – Homeopathy: Medicine for the 21st century at http://www.hmc21.org/ – be a charity?
PACS – picture archiving systems used to stroe and retrieve xrays and other medical images. Each xray department gets one as it give up film.
FLOSS – Free (Libre) and Open Source Software. The UK.gov abbreviation for stuff such as Linux, Apache, WordPress and of course this.
“Dicoogle is a Open Source project that aims (for now) to index DICOM repositories. Thus, you can search in every field that the image contains. Moreover, Dicoogle is a distributed repository. You can have several repositories in your intranet and they communicate with each other, creating a federate view of the repository.”
This appears to be a sensible approach to the problem asserted to exist and to be solved by sucking the whole country’s medical images into a single separate and of course new and additional storage system.
It is an easy and well-enough understaood problem that I expect the implementation to be adequate, and the design means it fails gracefully, of course.
And is philosophically satisfactory.
Otherwise it is lights out in the hothouse.
Getting in the way at Hinkley Point doesn’t help. Encouraging molten Fluoride reactors and Thorium use may help.