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Reflections of a white haired Remote GP

But at what Cost? The “Checkup” has become a common theme In General Practice and Primary Care. Men are exhorted with blokey slogans like “get your grease and oil change” to have their regular checkup or they will suffer all sorts of dire consequences Women are prompted with signs in public conveniences to have their…

Software Design in Health

Software Design is an arcane subject, a long way from the day to day practice of Health Practitioners. Yet we all use computer systems – indeed they are central to our day to day practice. Good Health IT design is important to efficiency, work satisfaction and Clinical Safety, yet it appears not to be considered…

Open Source Software – A Paradox

The nuts and bolts of Software – Intellectual Property The code running in the myriad of computers in the world is called object code . This is a series of low level commands read sequentially from memory that tell the computer processor what to do. These are in assembly language which is completely unintelligible to…

by Richard Hosking May 11, 2022May 11, 2022