I have developed an app for Nokia smart Phones to keep you up to date with my activities. You can download it for free from the Ovi app shop. You can follow academic or professional items or both.
The app has been validated by Nokia and should work satisfactorily with most modern Nokia smartphones.

Go to the Ovi store at http://store.ovi.com/search?q=gillies or on your Nokia phone to download the app.

Alan was interviewed by the publication Practical Patient Care about data quality and security issues around electronic patient records. The interview was reproduced at the hospitalmanagement.net web site wher you can read the whole article at http://www.hospitalmanagement.net/features/feature81297/

Alan has been signed up to support his third NWDA innovation voucher in six months. The voucher is to work with frank design ltd on a new web based facility. More details will be given once the work has been completed. You can find out more about the company at www.frankdesignltd.co.uk.

Alan is currently working with the Hope Street Centre in Liverpool (www.hopestreetcentre.com) on an innovation voucher on modelling to assist in commissioning decisions and supporting a project on early detection of cancer.

Alan has launched a new blog at http://acgillies.wordpress.com. Why there? It will hopefully bring the blog to a wider audience. If you want to access the blog from here you can link from the right hand column. Early subjects include the ethics of health reporting, informed consent and the events at Stafford Hospital. In future, there will likely be more information technology oriented content. Watch this space!

AG has launched an online document store at www.docstoc.com to make documents available to a wider audience. Some will be free and some will be chargeable. For example, launch documents include a series of working papers on IT for physicians which were derived from work in Romania. To maximise coverage in Eastern Europe, these are provided free. Paid content includes chapters from books where copyright permits, but even here some sample text will be free. Go to www.docstoc.com to find out more.

AG is currently working with the Hope Street Centre in Liverpool on two projects supported by an NWDA innovation voucher. The first is around analysing data from an audit of early detection of cancer of part of a national project. The second is concerned with modelling new models of dleivery of health care services with the goal of reducing costs AND improving the quslity of service. If World Class Commissioning is to live up to its goals, then it needs more examples like this.