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Last week I wrote about the UK government's “new” IT strategy, which is designed in part to avoid some of the costly mistakes of the pas...

There's no doubt that the area outside computing where the ideas underlying open source are being applied most rapidly and most successf...

Evidence that open source and the more general concept of openness is becoming trendy: the politicians are bandying them around again. There...

I've written quite a lot about Microsoft's ill-fated Vista in Open Enterprise, but nothing so far about another VistA: Electronic He...

When the following press release arrived, my heart beat a little faster.... On Open Enterprise blog .

The National Health Service's £12.7 billion computer system is in doubt after its managers acknowledged that there will be further delay...

You know it makes sense: A £13bn overhaul of the NHS records system has suffered so many problems that hospitals have struggled to keep tra...

Interesting : The court’s view was that health care staff who are not involved in the care of a patient must be unable to access that patien...

On Open Enterprise blog .

I was already teetering on the brink of opting out of the NHS patient database; this just pushed me over: A new national database of confid...

News that Granger is abandoning the sinking ship that is NHS Connecting for Health is hardly a surprise. The £12 billion project was doome...

Nice story in the Guardian today about a local UK health system that works - unlike the massive, doomed, centralised NHS system currently ...

Yesterday I passed on a story about a closed source company unilaterally upping its support prices, and simply locking people out of their ...