Rob Dyke from Handi Health, talks about how the American Veterans Health Care Program (Vista) is completely open source, and how a patient platform can be used to create these solutions in the UK.

Malcolm Newbury from Guildfoss talks about how smart phones can be hooked into NHS telephone systems using social networks.

Rob Dyke from Handi Health, talks about Open Source Mobile Phone Applications and how these can be implemented in NHS trusts.

Carl Reynolds, Doctor and Geek, from Open Health Care UK, talks about how to inform procurement in the NHS, raising the profile of open source software and delivering patient care.

Rob Dyke from Tactix4, talks about the project that he and his colleagues started work on in May 2012 designed to get rid of paper handovers from one clinician to another.

In addition Rob talks about the National Program for IT, what it has achieved and what it failed to achieve.  He discusses the Open Source approach to solutions and how different trusts implement various solutions.

Last weekend insideTALK attended the NHS Hack Day in Liverpool.  In Part 1 of a series of conversations, Carl Reynolds, Doctor and Geek, from Open Health Care UK, talks about setting up NHS Hack Day earlier in 2012, and what he hopes to achieve at the second hack day in Liverpool.

Meet Chris. He has suffered from Ulcerative Colitis for the past 20 years and has tried various treatments. These include: Azacol (Mesalamine), Prednisolne and Symprove probiotic.

Is Chris’ story similar to yours?  Have you tried different treatments that worked, or did not work? We’d like to hear from you. Contact us at contact@insidetalk.org.uk.