Tools : Android - An Open Handset Alliance Project

Is the future of open-source mobile developments?

The Android platform is a software stack for mobile devices including an operating system, middleware and key applications. Developers can create applications for the platform using the Android SDK. Applications are written using the Java programming language and run on Dalvik, a custom virtual machine designed for embedded use, which runs on top of a Linux kernel.

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News : Bad software bursts £1bn NHS bubble, 2 June 2008

A KEY ELEMENT of the UK's gargantuan health IT scheme was exposed as a fallacy yesterday when Fujitsu, one of four original suppliers of patient systems, dumped its £1bn contract, becoming the second supplier to have jumped ship. The IT industry has taken Fujitsu's resignation as evidence that both its £1bn contract with Connecting for Health (CfH), the UK health IT quango, and the original aims of the National Programme, had become untenable.

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Background : Tories would decentralise state information, says David Cameron, 4 April 2008

Tory leader David Cameron has said that the Conservatives would avoid large-scale central IT systems such as the NHS National Programme for IT.

Cameron also praised open-source development, saying it would help smaller companies grow.

“We will follow private sector best practice which is to introduce open standards that enables IT contracts to be split up into modular components," he said.

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Background : Processing electronic claims, 25 September 2007

NHS Connecting for Health will provide two electronic mailboxes to which data files of claims maybe submitted by ophthalmic contractors. Data files must be in the form of attachments to e-mails.

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Background : NHS Connecting for Health announces deal with Novell, 2 August 2007

NHS Connecting for Health has negotiated a £21.8m agreement with infrastructure and software services supplier Novell which will save the NHS up to £75 million over three years, compared to previous arrangements.

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Background : NHS to trial Sun's Linux desktop, 17 December 2003

NHS IT Director General Richard Granger has ordered a trial of Sun Microsystems' Linux-based Java Desktop system as part of the NPfIT.

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Background : Doctors prefer Linux to Windows, 23 May 2003

The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has chosen a secure Linux-based server solution for the bulk emailing of 6,000 GPs across the UK, after a decision not to use Windows.

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Background : Novell to Provide Security, Systems Management and Linux to United Kingdom's National Health Service, 2 December 2005

Novell today announced a £21.8 million ($39 million) contract with the United Kingdom's leading Department of Health agency for a comprehensive set of security, management and infrastructure solutions that will improve delivery of health services to UK citizens. The three year agreement with the National Health Service (NHS) Connecting for Health program lets NHS leverage Novell® solutions across the entire NHS infrastructure, comprising upwards of 600,000 workstations, and will result in substantial cost savings for the NHS. As a strategic partner, Novell will help the NHS deliver its National Programme for IT, improving patient care and services and transforming the way the NHS works.

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Background : NHS continues open source software trials, 15 July 2005

The NHS in England will continue to test free-to-use "open source" software, despite paying to run Microsoft software on some 550,000 desktop computers.

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