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Anyone remember Iain Buchan? When last heard on GP-UK he was a
Rheumatologist at the Wirral. He wrote a dead good wee 'electronic
textbook' programme called Wax. Contains anything from formulary and
guidelines to self-help groups. He gave to it 40 or so GPs who evaluated
it positively as a clinical desktop tool.
Anyway, he's now at Cambridge Uni Centre for Medical Informatics, near
Ross no doubt. Wax is coming along well, but more to the point it can be
downloaded free from http://www.medinfo.cam.ac.uk for Windows platforms.
What I find interesting is the strategic goal: a dead-quick-and-easy
programme safely on your hard disc but which can hold web page stuff,
local protocols, or anything else. Decision support without cost or
log-on delays. And the programme updates it's various web pages
automatically overnight.
BTW, Iain isn't paying me. He is however of Scottish origin :))
Alan Hyslop
Computing & IT Strategy
Management Executive, NHS in Scotland.
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