We believe there are many organisations implementing systems that conform to the following pattern: A patient is being supported at home. They wear sensors and/or use a smartphone. Sometimes there is a home unit that wirelessly connects to the sensors/smartphone. The data is securely transferred to a server. There is a browser based application by which a clinician accesses the data. Sometimes the clinician can send data back to the patient via the home unit or smartphone. There may be[...]

Reynold Greenlaw, Director of Consultancy at OCC, recently presented at eHealth and the Brain – ICT for Neuropsychiatric Health held in Brussels on the 5th November 2013. His presentation on Telemedicine and eHealth for Neurology, focused on the OCC’s involvement in the CuPiD Project. CuPiD is a three year EU project powered by an eight member consortium led by the University of Bologna. The CuPiD project is developing and field-testing home rehabilitation services for the major motor disabilities caused by Parkinson’s[...]

Recently Reynold Greenlaw, our Director of Consultancy Projects, talked to 10MinutesWith about building a career as a Software Engineer. In their interview, Reynold covers the hardest and the best parts of working as a Software Engineer. He also talks about his own career path and gives tips on how to get started and what skills are needed. 10MinutesWith is an educational website, focusing on videos designed to help students and graduates understand different jobs and identify a career path. Watch[...]

We are very pleased to be listed in the Government’s Digital Market Place, which is for UK public sector organizations to commission suppliers to work in an Agile way on digital projects. See below for a description of “Agile” working. We have been evaluated technically and commercially to supply individuals, or to join an existing team to work on a digital project at both junior and senior levels in the following roles: For Agile Delivery Management: Business Analyst Delivery Manager[...]

On Tuesday 5th November, our Consultancy Projects Director Reynold Greenlaw participated with fellow CuPiD Consortium member Laura Rocchi from the University of Bologna in a one-day conference on eHealth and the Brain – ICT for Neuropsychiatric Health, organised by the European Commission. Reynold gave a presentation about Telemedicine and eHealth, based on his experience in eHealth over the last 15 years, whilst Laura presented the CuPiD project and the state of our work. Reynold argued that although outputs from EU[...]

In a recently published market research report by Kable, Smarter social services – Applications for informed care delivery (published by Market Publishers), we are mentioned as one of the leading suppliers of social care applications. With social care comprising the largest share of councils’ expenditure, local government is seeking to economize and provide smart services. Kable’s report provides insightful information about the use of ICT in social services and a close look at the local government marketplace. OCC are one[...]

Keith, from Burford School, just spent a week doing coding for one of our research projects. Here’s what he said about his time here: “I really enjoyed my experience at OCC – I’d done quite a bit of programming before, but never in large projects. Working at OCC, I learnt lots about project control and teamwork in programming, as well as learning about new technologies such as MVC 4 and Razor. When I got a placement, I thought I would[...]

After the success of our first ContrOCC hackday, we’ve decided to hold one every four months, to give the team a day to work on things that they think would make ContrOCC a little nicer in some way, for users or developers. The day’s projects Alan upgraded as many of our Visual Studio solutions as possible to VS 2012.   2012 improvements include better support for working with JavaScript, out-of-the-box support for the NuGet package manager, the long-awaited “collapse all” feature[...]

OCC sponsored the Young Enterprise 2013 competition locally for the Best Use of Online Media. The School of St Helen and St Katharine company Wrong Way won in early May at the South East finals and John Boyle, OCC’s MD, presented them with their well deserved award. Wrong Way sells quirky, handmade hats and boxes.

Our 1st quarter of 2013 has been a resounding success. We’ve had 9 new sales of our products, thanks to our dedicated team of directors, implementation managers and help desk all pulling together. With every new sale comes a new implementation, which we undertake in partnership with our client; migrating data, installing software and training our new users. We’ve also recently won a major contract to deploy PSOCC, our provider system, to manage Day Centre services. For this contract, we’ve[...]

Over the last weekend in January I attended the NHS Hack Day at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, with friends from Step Up Software and Dr Doctor. NHS Hack Days are weekend events that brings together doctors, nurses, developers, designers, and other “geeks who love the NHS” to create disruptive solutions to problems in the health space. Our team worked together on a novel application called the Dementia Scrapbook – a tablet app that allows content to be uploaded[...]

We recently held the first ContrOCC Developer’s Hackday, which was all about giving the team some time to work on things that would make the product a little nicer for them in some way. For example: A development task or bug that’s getting on their nerves but which isn’t getting scheduled Improving developer tools Experimental development which might or might not work A prototype solution or toy program to demonstrate an interesting idea A spec or mockup for something more[...]

OCC’s Ulen Neale is very near the completion of a huge challenge; one that he has named 12 in 12 in 12. Ulen has run his 11th marathon this year and he is planning to do one more before the year is out. Ulen is dividing the funds he is raising through the marathons equally between Sobell House Hospice and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC) Support. There is no cure for PSC, which is a degenerative liver disease, but PSC Support[...]

OCC has been extremely busy during the conference season promoting our contract management and financial assessment management product, ContrOCC. Nick Warner and Damian Payne were at the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) Information Management Conference held at the Hotel Russell, Bloomsbury, in October. Later the same month, Damian Payne, Chris Smith and Keith Musson represented OCC at the National Association of Financial Assessment Officers (NAFAO) meeting at the Macdonald Burlington Hotel, Birmingham, where Damian demonstrated the new[...]