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- We explore the un-met needs of patients and clinicians.
- We advocate for and help build the tools that help to meet those needs.
- We support locally grown responsive human centred dental services, and the digital tools that allow them to flourish.
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Founded by NHS dentists, OpenOdonto CIC is a not for profit company. We think that NHS dentistry is something to be proud of. We are here to make better digital tools that help NHS dentists deliver better care.
Technology is changing the world and our expectations. Corporate IT NHS dental systems are lagging behind. They often prevent us from providing the care we know is important to our patients. We want all NHS dentists to see what is possible and stop just accepting what they're given regarding NHS IT. Done badly, NHS IT costs a lot and causes problems for clinicians providing care (see this article in the guardian). We think by having better tools NHS dentists will provide better patient care.
One current problem is clinical leads cannot easily make changes to NHS IT systems as part of their continuous quality improvement activities. When NHS clinicians invest their ideas and knowledge into IT systems they want them to be shared with rest of the NHS to make care better for patients. We work to ensure NHS clinicians ideas are not stripped out of the NHS and made into products and then sold back to the NHS many times over to enrich shareholders.
Taking a simple view; being open -- open governance and open source -- allows effective collaboration and gives a competitive advantage in terms of the potential for lower costs and higher quality. Openness is now standard in the technology industry and in some parts of government, for example the Cabinet Office. Openness within technology stands alongside the openness found in academic culture of sharing openly what we have found through our research. Take a look at the Government Digital Services Presentation (pdf)
How can we build an environment where world-class NHS digital services flourish? Through leadership that understands technology and is bold enough to modernise the delivery of digital services, including embracing openness. This reflects the view of the 2016 Depart of Health report into “Using information technology to improve the NHS” by Robert Wachter.
OpenOdonto are clinicians who foster relationships with other clinicians across the NHS. We also work with professional technology partners who share our vision. We partner with universities to generate transferable knowledge and involve students in the design and development of digital services. Talking to policy-makers stimulate high level collaboration in the continuous improvement of digital solutions. OpenOdonto understands healthcare system needs and we know how to enable users to gain knowledge that they - and we - don’t have. We’re familiar with the Information governance landscape, and we follow relevant standards and best practices - the more open the better. Show the thing Presentations to policy-makers NHS Hack Days
We work with local dentists and patients to identify and describe un-met needs. Then we codesign solutions.
Deep understanding of needs and robust research Odonto discovery Over seven months of participative design with clinicians and admin staff from Community Dental Services in four northern Healthcare Trusts, Newcastle University, and health technology professionals, OpenOdonto produced a deep understanding of patient, administration and clinician needs, and how these pertain to the technology landscape. This led to the decision to prototype the referrals system and the co-design and development of wireframe and video prototypes of the referral management system. Carehome NIHR project Student design projects Northumbria University University College London Build, test, iterate We prototype digital tools. This is part of an agile development process where we start by building small, having users try those digital tools and respond to them, and then iterating to better solve the real unmet needs. At every stage we gather feedback from NHS dentists to help keep us on the right track. This process reduces risk, and makes sure we end up with services that meet the your needs.
Who - Who we are + our story Directors of OpenOdonto CIC http://openodonto.org/who-we-are Jimmy Higginson Richard Valle-Jones Rebecca Wassall Critical friend Jimmy Steele
Some of our work Discovery / research Odonto Student projects Caring study EMR Openeys-ey piece Rag score Referrals Wireframing Initial prototype
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