# BMJ article -"Better use of data and digital offer rapid opportunities to address covid-19" **Category:** [Covid-19](https://discourse.openehr.org/c/covid19/32) **Created:** 2020-03-15 17:15 UTC **Views:** 650 **Replies:** 2 **URL:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/bmj-article-better-use-of-data-and-digital-offer-rapid-opportunities-to-address-covid-19/468 --- ## Post #1 by @ian.mcnicoll This is a very interesting paper in the [latest online BMJ](https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/03/13/better-use-of-data-and-digital-offer-rapid-opportunities-to-address-covid-19/) arguing for better use of data and digital in response to Covid-19. Amongst its authors are Ben Goldacre, Rachel Dunscombe and Amir Mehrkar who are highly respected in the UK digital space and at least some of what they are suggesting - better computable and 'open' documentation of data models, guidance and pathways is absolutely in line with what we are trying to do with openEHR inc. GDL and Task planning. > "this reflects a dangerous historic tendency towards closed ways of working in NHS informatics, rather than more open approaches; and a broader longstanding failure to invest in creating a “commons of knowledge” around this applied science." Well worth a read - although it references Covid-19, it is the principles that are important. --- ## Post #2 by @DavidIngram Would it be appropriate to post a link to the Apperta web site piece about your incubator work in the comments to this paper? There were no comments there, thus far, when I looked just now, so it would be quite prominent if you felt it timely to do so. Alternatively, point to the press release on the openEHR web site, perhaps? --- ## Post #3 by @ian.mcnicoll Yes please I didn't know it existed. --- **Canonical:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/bmj-article-better-use-of-data-and-digital-offer-rapid-opportunities-to-address-covid-19/468 **Original content:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/bmj-article-better-use-of-data-and-digital-offer-rapid-opportunities-to-address-covid-19/468