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Marcus Baw

Why you don’t need a separate ‘document store’ for your Discourse online community

Pretty much every time I create a new ‘social collaboration’ Discourse setup for a new professional community I’m asked if there can be…

Nov 13, 2021

Why you don’t need a separate ‘document store’ for your Discourse online community

Nov 13, 2021

No, you do not need a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for Clinical Decision Support or Clinical…

Otherwise known as Computable Biomedical Knowledge artefacts, or perhaps less pompously as Digital Clinical Tools, clinical decision…

May 19, 2021

No, you do not need a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for Clinical Decision Support or Clinical…

May 19, 2021

Why we chose Python for the RCPCH Digital Growth Charts project.

So here is a little bit of a ‘stream of consciousness’ blog post I felt compelled to write, about why we chose Python for the RCPCH…

Jan 31, 2021

Jan 31, 2021

The Clinical Software Usability Scale

It’s been 5 years since the Clinical Software Usability Scale (cSUS) was created. Following a discussion with a friend and colleague Dr…

Dec 4, 2020

Dec 4, 2020

Royal Colleges 3.0: ‘Best Practice As Code’

I’ve spent the last few months working with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) on a project to deliver a Digital…

Dec 3, 2020

Dec 3, 2020

The NHS as an unassailable Public-Private Wealth Transfer Mechanism

An unusually political blog article from me this time. It’s still healthcare-relevant, but it’s concerned with some of the bigger-picture…

Jul 9, 2020

Jul 9, 2020

Why the TRUD must die

I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the way that NHS Digital communicates standards and interacts with its developer community…

Nov 14, 2018

Why the TRUD must die

Nov 14, 2018

Open source is the only way for Medicine

I believe that closed-source, proprietary clinical software is fundamentally unethical.

Jun 19, 2018

Open source is the only way for Medicine

Jun 19, 2018

There’s no such thing as a free Launch (or maybe there is)… Launchers on Linux in 2017

Confession: I once owned a MacBook Pro.

Nov 16, 2017

There’s no such thing as a free Launch (or maybe there is)… Launchers on Linux in 2017

Nov 16, 2017

Apperta Foundation backs NHSbuntu with £30K grant

We’re very excited to be able to announce that the Apperta Foundation, (formerly NHS England Open Source) has backed NHSbuntu with initial…

Aug 6, 2017

Aug 6, 2017

Marcus Baw

Marcus Baw

#HIT100 NHS GP | Clinical Informatician | Ruby & Python dev | co-founder NHSbuntu & openGPSoC | Freelance Health IT

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