Getting the majority of doctors to go beyond spreadsheets is a daunting task, says the patient from hell At the beginning of this year I bemoaned that GPs no longer understood IT . Five months later, however, I cheered because the NHS Hackday showed that a lot of clinicians do in fact want clunky NHS IT systems to be improved and are prepared, if only for a weekend, to get down in the mud with loads of geeks and get their hands dirty writing innovative medical Apps (and I am delighted to hear that one of these Apps, Patient List, is to be released as open source ). But, sadly, in an increasingly...