Just say "Yes": read, enjoy and join in
Welcome to futurehealthit.com the blog that helps you to create the future of healthcare now.
I hope you enjoy the content, but most of all I hope you will click on the "Comments" link and contribute to the community with your ideas and opinions.
I am Colin Jervis and I help healthcare and other parts of the public sector in the UK to gain maximum value from their investment in IT.
As well as having worked in Marketing and Management Consultancy in the UK private sector, I have led two major Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programmes in the UK National Health Service (NHS). That may, in part at least, account for the loss of hair!
My first EPR programme was in 1991 at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington (where Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the bacteria killing properties of the penicillium mould) in the days when the idea of a shared patient-record in the NHS was about as attractive to most people as a pile of dirty Petri dishes. How things have changed!
I led a second programme at the Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals in Reading, UK as part of a major change and rebuilding programme. The ideas coming out of it were used by the developing National Programme for IT (NPfIT)--now part of NHS Connecting for Health reputedly the world's biggest IT project with a headline spend of more than £6bn over ten years.
I have been a fan of 70s progressive rock band "Yes" for about 30 years. A few years ago I met them in HMV on Oxford Street in London, and I confess there was a lump in my throat as they signed my book. You can find out more about these rock legends on the "Yesworld" site.
I will spare you my musings on Yes's music; there are plenty of those on the Web already! However, I will indulge my fascination for gadgets, technology and IT innovations in healthcare—which is what this blog is about.
I am looking forward to giving my creative and fanciful streak a bit more latitude than I feel able to on the Kinetic Consulting website which will tell you about my work in healthcare and Connecting for Health (NHS CFH).
I hope you will read my blog, enjoy it and—most of all—join in!
