Maybe Covid-19 is our wake-up call?
Ding-a-ling! Good MORNING, and welcome to another unprecedented challenging day!
No kidding - the pandemic has been tough, and unbearably tragic for many thousands of people, whether as patients, family members, healthcare workers, other key workers, or your general Joe Public. One issue that has been recognised from fairly early on is that a key consideration has to be protecting our healthcare infrastructure from the tsunami that is still washing over us.
Part of that means we need contingency plans to keep things moving if other systems go down. Our resources are stretched to the limit, and finding the money to pay for some of our dearest dream projects is going to be hard. We're going to have to cut our cloth.
At the same time, the sheer need to innovate in models of patient care (because there are plenty of patients who don't have Covid-19 too, but have significant clinical needs - cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, rare disorders etc etc) has brought out some of the best and most inventive ideas from right across the spectrum, and the need to move fast has meant that many of those have not been held up in the sorts of wrangling and death-by-governance quagmires that have stifled so many great ideas in the past.
Don't get me wrong - we NEED good governance. We NEED scrutiny. We NEED to adopt an evidence-based approach. However it could be argued (and has been argued by many) that the red tape of pseudo-governance is a malign strangling influence, and we need to get far better and far more positive (and quick and agile) in our work.
This is where something like Carebuntu could potentially provide benefit.
A snappier Linux-based OS means we can press older hardware into service. Fast boot-up means that health & care staff have rapid access to the tools they need. Moving apps to virtualisation and the cloud closes off several security risks, and gives greater control, as well as greatly increasing the number and types of devices that can be used. A system install that accesses its apps in the cloud is less likely to result in incident and service reports. Support is easier. Education is easier. Innovation is facilitated.
Tacking this pandemic (and the next pandemic) is going to take a huge amount of effort and thought. Perhaps at least some of that effort needs to go into designing for system-wide resilience, and decreasing reliance on single platforms. Surely it's time to build a Linux-based OS tuned towards the needs of the Health & Care sector. Time for @Carebuntu.
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No kidding - the pandemic has been tough, and unbearably tragic for many thousands of people, whether as patients, family members, healthcare workers, other key workers, or your general Joe Public. One issue that has been recognised from fairly early on is that a key consideration has to be protecting our healthcare infrastructure from the tsunami that is still washing over us.
Part of that means we need contingency plans to keep things moving if other systems go down. Our resources are stretched to the limit, and finding the money to pay for some of our dearest dream projects is going to be hard. We're going to have to cut our cloth.
At the same time, the sheer need to innovate in models of patient care (because there are plenty of patients who don't have Covid-19 too, but have significant clinical needs - cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, rare disorders etc etc) has brought out some of the best and most inventive ideas from right across the spectrum, and the need to move fast has meant that many of those have not been held up in the sorts of wrangling and death-by-governance quagmires that have stifled so many great ideas in the past.
Don't get me wrong - we NEED good governance. We NEED scrutiny. We NEED to adopt an evidence-based approach. However it could be argued (and has been argued by many) that the red tape of pseudo-governance is a malign strangling influence, and we need to get far better and far more positive (and quick and agile) in our work.
This is where something like Carebuntu could potentially provide benefit.
A snappier Linux-based OS means we can press older hardware into service. Fast boot-up means that health & care staff have rapid access to the tools they need. Moving apps to virtualisation and the cloud closes off several security risks, and gives greater control, as well as greatly increasing the number and types of devices that can be used. A system install that accesses its apps in the cloud is less likely to result in incident and service reports. Support is easier. Education is easier. Innovation is facilitated.
Tacking this pandemic (and the next pandemic) is going to take a huge amount of effort and thought. Perhaps at least some of that effort needs to go into designing for system-wide resilience, and decreasing reliance on single platforms. Surely it's time to build a Linux-based OS tuned towards the needs of the Health & Care sector. Time for @Carebuntu.
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