Integrated Digital Care Technology Fund - Use of Open Source Technologies

The request was successful.

Dear Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust,

I am a part time MSc Health Informatics student at Yorkshire Centre of Health Informatics. As part of my MSc project I am undertaking research into take up of using Open Source Software and Technologies within the NHS.

I notice that you were successful in securing Integrated Digital Care Technology Fund funding details which details of are below.

Safer Hospitals, Safer Ward
Project Name: Electronic Prescribing and Administration of Medicines
Project Type: Electronic Prescribing
Funding Awarded: £1,525,000

Safer Hospitals, Safer Ward
Project Name: LTHT Integrated Digital Health Record (IDHR) Programme
Project Type: Digital Records (Single Organisation)
Funding Awarded: £6,251,500

I would really appreciate it if you could answer my quick online survey regarding your experiences of this?

The link to the survey is below:
http://tinyurl.com/gm7y9eg

The survey will take 5 minutes or less to complete and you will be contributing towards a great project.

If you do not answer the online survey I would appreciate you completing the following questions.

1. Does your organisation have an Open Source Strategy?
2. What Software and Technologies did you choose for your Integrated Digital Care Technology Fund funded projects?
3. Is the software and technology you have used for your project an Open Source Product?
4. Does the software / technology interface with another system? If so is the interface based on Open Standards / Open APIs?

Yours faithfully,

Ben Sewell

Dear Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust's handling of my FOI request 'Integrated Digital Care Technology Fund - Use of Open Source Technologies'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/i...

Yours faithfully,

Ben Sewell

informationgovernance (LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST), Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Dear Mr Sewell

We acknowledge receipt of your e-mail requesting information from the Trust under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 ("the Act"). Please note that whilst the Trust strives to be open and is normally able to satisfy requests in full, the right of access is not absolute and we may therefore have to refuse queries, either in full or in part, on the basis of the exemptions (for example, in cases where disclosure would breach patient confidentiality, or put people in danger). All such decisions will be made, and fully justified, in accordance with the law.

We are required under the Act to respond to valid queries no later than the twentieth working day following receipt. Your request was received on 23/05/2016, which means our deadline for response calculates to 20/06/2016. If we are able to respond to you sooner than this, we will do so.

Should you have any queries or concerns in the meantime, please contact us directly using the e-mail address below - quoting reference number 16-3871

Please note: if, having fully considered your request, we reasonably require further information in order to respond, we will request this from you by e-mail as soon as possible. In all such cases, the above timescales will be disregarded and the 20 working day clock shall instead begin once we have received the necessary clarification. There shall be no duty for us to comply with your request until we receive this information from you.

Kind Regards
Lorna

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informationgovernance (LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST), Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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Dear Mr Sewell
 
Please find attached herewith a response to your Freedom of Information
query.
 
Kind regards

Lorna

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