Meet Fred, a 70 year old widower living alone with his dog. Fred has insulin-dependant diabetes, arthritis (can’t give his own insulin), COPD, a fairly recent left leg amputation – and is understandably depressed. Fortunately, he also has friends who often take him to the pub on Saturday nights – with the consequence that he is a frequent visitor to A&E on Sunday morning. You haven’t forgotten the dog, have you?

The challenge is to devise the information set-up to allow the safe management of Fred’s numerous medical and social problems, prevent medical untoward events (what if rheumatology want him on NSAIs but he is already on an ACE inhibitor to protect his kidneys? who decides which is the most important?) – and make sure the dog is looked after when Fred isn’t there!

Oh, by the way, Fred wants to be involved as well..

There is a Pinax based Fredbook at http://fredbook.tactix4.net/ with a dev/test site coming soon.