Woodcote Consulting
Health and Care Consulting
Woodcote Consulting, founded in 1996 is a specialist consultancy working in health and care are main areas of expertise are digital health and clinical and forensic psychology.
AREAS OF WORK
Digital Health and Care
Clinical and Forensic Psychology
OUR BLOG
The power of information and digital technology to transform the NHS
I believe passionately in the power of information and digital technology to transform the way we deliver health and care, indeed I consider it essential if we are the meet the growing demands the health and care system faces within…
Read MoreA Paperless NHS
Given the usual scant regard to the commonly accepted meaning of words that seems to be the norm in the NHS – “Paperless” is something that we now have in the majority of general practices and that many have had…
Read MorePatient record access – A spur to innovation
I’ve been involved in one of the working groups which are part of the RCGP-Led Online Patient Access Project, which has been funded by DH to help deliver on the Government’s promise to deliver online access for all to their…
Read MoreStandards are a barrier to innovation?
In a world where we are forced to reducing complex messages to sound bites this is mine on standards in health care IT: “Standards are a barrier to innovation”. Of course this is a gross over simplification and in reality…
Read MoreVistA for the NHS
Ewan Davis – Director of Woodcote Consulting shares his thoughts on VistA VistA is the open source electronic health record (EHR) system developed and used in the American Veteran’s Health Administration (VA). It is widely acknowledged that over recent years the VA has transformed itself…
Read MoreAbout this Blog
I created this blog to share some of my random musing about Health Informatics, which I hope will inform and amuse but at least stimulate some debate. Originally hosted separately from my company’s web site, it has now been brought into…
Read MoreGP System Change
As the current arrangements for the supply of GP systems under the NPfIT and GPSoC come to an end GPs maybe thinking about a potential system change. In particular some emerging CCGs are promoting system change to achieve a single…
Read MoreNHS Hack Day – Making an Old Man Happy
I’ve been fortunate enough to fall in with some of those young clinicians and developers organising NHS Hack Day (actually two days 26/27 May 2012 in Central London) http://nhshackday.com and I think this is one of the most exciting things…
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