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2023-07-23 Thread John Hearns via GLLUG
> You just need an indexing system that is > versatile enough to work with the idea that some people are going to > have multiple entries, and in an ideal world they would eventually all > get merged, but life isn't like that. My first job in London was working on an early radiology PACS system at

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2023-07-23 Thread Alex Macfie via GLLUG
On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 at 13:28, Christopher Hunter via GLLUG < gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > > On 22/07/2023 22:32, Andy Smith via GLLUG wrote: > > However, if we get a Conservative government, things are likely to > markedly change. Sunak and much of his cabinet are probably going to > be re

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2023-07-23 Thread Andrew Black via GLLUG
On Sat, 22 Jul 2023, 22:34 Andy Smith via GLLUG, wrote: > > > A great plan that involves merely making enemies of: > > - The UK government > - Microsoft > - The entire US health insurance industry > Regrettably i agree. There are too many intertwined systems > > -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@m

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2023-07-23 Thread Alain D D Williams via GLLUG
On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 03:51:43PM +0100, Greater London Linux UUG wrote: > This would make the NHS the world’s largest software business - required to > make *profits* of well over £100 billion. Not sure anyone really wants that. I thought that that is exactly what the current government would l

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2023-07-23 Thread Adrian McMenamin via GLLUG
On Sat, 22 Jul 2023 at 17:38, bap--- via GLLUG wrote: > > The NHS is the largest employer in Europe. It has more autonomy than other > government departments and in the main it’s run by people who know what > they are doing. But the current government is piling on a lot of pressure > to improve e

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2023-07-23 Thread Alain D D Williams via GLLUG
On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 02:44:23PM +0100, Greater London Linux UUG wrote: > I believe it doesn't "need" an open source solution, it needs a common > approach, like a set of RFC's, that allows everyone, closed and open source > together, to move in the same direction, and by the very nature of the

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2023-07-23 Thread Marco van Beek via GLLUG
Hi All, So my opinion on this is that the NHS's greatest IT weakness (the diversity of systems) is also it's greatness strength. Every "solution" i have read about over the last 10 or 15 years appears to be a 20th century solution for a 19th century problem, and what is needed is a 21st centu

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2023-07-23 Thread Christopher Hunter via GLLUG
On 22/07/2023 22:32, Andy Smith via GLLUG wrote: A great plan that involves merely making enemies of: - The UK government - Microsoft - The entire US health insurance industry 😀 I don't want to be negative about someone else's idealistic goal. It would be great if you succeeded. Cheers, Andy