Open source digital playbook

This Playbook describes case studies that demonstrate how open source approaches to code, community, governance and documentation can help teams develop, improve and promote their work. It is split into two pathways. The first pathway places each of the case studies in their medical context, while the second relates them to digital transformation. If you have any feedback, would like to know more, or would like to see your work in this playbook, please get in touch at england.interop.standards@nhs.net

Scenarios

I want to use technology to make health professionals’ day-to-day activities more efficient, freeing up time for patient care

I want to make our project/code open and accessible to other healthcare organisations

I want to create an integrated care record to access real time information, across health care providers, safely and securely

I want the tool to be usable across multiple teams, departments, trusts and hospitals

I want to securely and efficiently collect patient data for more effective prediction and analysis

I want to provide timely information to care professionals and patients

I want the tool to allow developer, community and external contributions

I want to digitise patient observations and create uniform, transparent and secure data management for health and social care

I want to maximise the learning opportunities of working in the open and increase clinician education around new and open technologies

I want my tool to have a national impact on the healthcare sector

I want to support COVID19 analysis and tracing

I want a tool that can be freely maintained and avoids vendor lock ins

I want to allow staff, clinicians and broader teams to contribute to the creation of my tool

Routes

Explore case studies at different points of the clinical pathway or transformational journey

Route 1: Medical

Digital tools that support patients and staff at each step of the clinical pathway, and beyond.

Route 2: Developing and deploying code

Projects that illustrate the digital transformation journey: from conception, to implementation, through integration to improvement.

Case studies

The Herald Proximity Project

Repurposing the lessons of Track And Trace for the location of essential equipment and lab samples, especially within hospitals and other complex health and social care estates.

CDU data science team

A tool from the CDU that helps make sense of patient experience feedback.

Yorkshire and Humber care record

Integrating clinical records across health services within the York and Humber region, enabling ambulance services (and others) to access essential patient information at the point of need.

Long stayers risk stratification

A statistical approach for helping patients get home from hospital at the appropriate time.

Show My Patient ID

A lightweight QR-code app that preserves patient privacy on admission to care settings.

COVID-19 Clinical Risk Assessment Tool

The tool that helped prioritise vaccine roll out across the NHS during the COVID19 pandemic: building on academic and open code for national needs.

Mauro Data Mapper

Ensuring that organisations understand the data they hold, and how to avoid asking patients the same questions twice.

OpenEyes

Consolidating and integrating ophthalmology data and ensuring that good governance is retained throughout.

Odoo ERP NHS Finance Edition

Helping the Royal Marsden to run its pharmaceutical services internally, with a home-grown and fully owned Enterprise Resource Planning solution.

Discovery data service

Data integration for the London Care Record with both open architecture and an open operating model.

FutureNHS collaboration platform

Escaping expensive licensing agreements with in-house collaboration services.

API management programme, NHS Digital

NHS Digital’s front door for integrating with their huge amount of internet-ready software.

Passwordless login

Bringing fingerprint and Face ID access to the NHS App.

ONS Monstr

Rapid access and reformatting of statistical data for timely discovery and research.

Medicines awareness service

Ensuring that information storage needs are specifically tailored for NICE’s subscription services.