Integrated Digital Care Technology Fund - Use of Open Source Technologies

The request was successful.

Dear South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation 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: Ambulance Medicines Management System
Project Type: Digital Records (Single Organisation)
Funding Awarded: £150,000

Safer Hospitals, Safer Ward
Project Name: Paramedic Notebook & Applications
Project Type: Digital Records (Single Organisation)
Funding Awarded: £420,000

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

Information Governance, South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Ben Sewell

 

Thank you for your request for information regarding the Integrated
Digital Care Technology Fund which we received on 06 April 2015. We have
dealt with this as a Freedom of Information request and I attach a leaflet
containing further information about both your rights and our obligations
under this legislation.

 

We are able to provide the following information:

 

Information Requested

 

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: Ambulance Medicines Management System Project Type: Digital
Records (Single Organisation) Funding Awarded: £150,000

 

Safer Hospitals, Safer Ward

Project Name: Paramedic Notebook & Applications Project Type: Digital
Records (Single Organisation) Funding Awarded: £420,000

 

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:

[1]http://tinyurl.com/gm7y9eg

 

Our Response

 

I can confirm the survey has been completed by SWASFT’s Programme Manager
who heads the team leading on these projects.

 

I wish you all the best with your MSc and the associated project.

 

 

Please feel free to contact me if you require further clarification of the
information provided, or to discuss any aspect of the way in which we have
responded to your request.   However, if you are dissatisfied with our
response, you also have the right to make use of the following complaints
procedures:

 

·         In the first instance you may write to the Chief Executive of
this Trust

 

Mr Ken Wenman

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Abbey Court

Eagle Way

Exeter  EX2 7HY

 

Mr Wenman will then either make arrangements for your complaint to be
reviewed and for the outcome to be communicated to you, or will convene a
panel of Trust Directors to consider an appeal against a decision to
withhold information.

 

·         If you are unhappy with the response to your complaint, or
findings of the Panel, you can write to the Information Commissioner at:

 

Information Commissioner’s Office,

Wycliffe House,

Water Lane,                                 

Wilmslow,

Cheshire.  SK9 5AF

 

Tel: 01625 545 700

Fax: 01625 524 510

 

Regards

 

Debbie

 

Debbie Bridge | Information Governance Manager

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

 

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