DITO objectives

Objective 1: Best-practice open digital health

A key objective of this project is to develop, prove and document processes and best practices which enable sustainable, joined-up and safe systems suitable to support a modern digital healthcare system. An open approach will be taken to all aspects of this projects and assets developed in the open.

These values are described as:

• Sustainable: the ability to explore, understand, improve and further develop digital systems used by the public healthcare sector

• Joined-up: the ability for independent systems to co-exist and inter-operate whenever necessary in a reliable and predictable manner

• Safe: the ability to study internal workings, validate safety claims, remedy issues discovered

• Using an Open approach : all aspects of the approach, from supplier engagement and definition of need through software development to safety assessment and implementation will be approached openly

• Developed in the open (DITO): assets including software and documentation will be created in line with the documented Apperta DITO standard

The process is designed for the NHS although will be broadly applicable to any public administration UK and global.

Objective 2: Digital application to evidence the process

To prove the processes developed, a digital clinical application will be developed alongside the overall objective. A nursing observation application (eObs) has been selected as the test case for this project as the technical and clinical partners are already familiar with the problem space and have worked together on existing prototype.

A fit-for-purpose eObs application provides an essential support system to reduce deterioration of patients and inform the rapid response processes.