Open source and modular components have reduced the cost and complexity of building and adapting great software, while simultaneously creating standardisation and familiarity. The NHS is missing the benefits from these industry conventions, and we need to change that story, so that digital systems can keep up with the often rapid changes and evolving requirements of care teams. In practice, this means looking at a clinician’s whole experience of digital working together to support them in their roles, rather than an obsessive focus on discrete point solutions.
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