John,
try an email to Claire O'Brien at the Cambridge Univ. Medical Informatics Unit. She's on
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I think Wax started as a brainchild of Iain Buchan (GP in Wirral), and an early version was well
received at HC96. Iain's now based down in Cambridge, where Claire is the (?)development
co-ordinator for the project.
AFAIK Wax is a sort of 'electronic book' a framework for chapters on anything that users might find
useful (could be travel medicine, lists of local voluntary agencies, protocol for using some aspect of
the local hospital's services, etc.). Written in hypertext. Currently one could criticise it for being
proprietorial - it's not written in html - but I think they are planning to move it across to that.
Quite a bit of their recent work seems to have focussed on the how to verify the authenticity of
material provided in this sort of medium, & this seems valuable, to me.
I gather that there was a project Open Day early last month - Claire could probably tell you about
that, who's pilotting it locally etc.
All in all one of a number of candidates for space in the Doctors' Desktop that we hear of from time
to time. BTW anyone heard more of the December British Medical Informatics Society initiative on
(what I saw as) universal clinical interfaces? Did anyone get a copy of the demo? - I'd value a copy
if poss.
cheers
Peter Ashe
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