Healthcare Roundup 8 August 2019

Prime minister Boris Johnson unveiled £1.8 billion of capital spending in the NHS, with £850 million going on 20 high-profile building projects over the next five-years. Eight suppliers made the final lot of the Health Systems Support Framework, which covers electronic patient records.

David Hancock from InterSystems was elected as vendor co-chair of INTEROPen, the collaborative that supports open standards for interoperability. He wants to make it more supplier-led. And Health Service Journal readers poked gentle fun at NHSX for planning a skunkworks development unit.