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RSS recordsUK health minister launches Nye awards
News An example of this progress could be a particularly innovative development of electronic patient records to improve the speed and quality of treatment. UK health minister, Frank Dobson, has launched a £10m reward scheme... [06 Oct 1998]
Make the Internet cheaper!
Comment Some ISPs and the ISP Association, have complained to Oftel, the UK telecoms regulator, that Click will allow BT to use its billing records to identify frequent Net users and target them with Click, or offer heavy Click... [30 Sep 1998]
Net security hole leaves credit card numbers exposed
News He told Silicon.com he viewed "over 6000 user records spanning 10 sites", but was unwilling to name any "until they plug the security holes - which some have not yet done". Thousands of Internet users have been exposed... [25 Sep 1998]
UK government pumps £1bn into health service IT
News Frank Burns, acting head of the NHS Executive IT department, is behind the strategy which will give every patient, clinician and manager access to electronic health records 24 hours a day. Some paper-based... [25 Sep 1998]
DSS in chaos over database collapse
News The UK Department of Social Services (DSS) is facing a painful few months after the collapse of its computerised database of National Insurance Records (NIR). The migration of records to a client server... [10 Sep 1998]
Norweb seals GIB telecoms deal
News Norweb has won a contract to provide telecoms services to GIB UK, an agency that administrates a public sector database of more than 250,000 records. GIB provides contact details for public sector personnel from the... [10 Sep 1998]
IBM database helps UK doctors keep track
News It is hoped the database of 1.2 billion records will rationalise the current prescription issuing process. The Prescription Pricing Authority (PPA) has begun trials of a Web-based database application to be used by... [26 Aug 1998]
In brief: Tower Records goes online
News Tower Records has teamed up with EIS Music Net to develop a UK Web site. The in-house team that built Tower Records' US site has been brought over to develop a standalone UK version, which will launch in... [20 Aug 1998]
In brief: Polygram commits to Internet trading
News Island Records became Polygram's first UK subsidiary to offer Internet sales, with Polydor Records UK following suit last month. Polygram is set to increase Internet trading by increasing its online... [03 Aug 1998]
In brief: Email threatened under export crackdown
News A white paper, published this week by the Department of Trade and Industry, would give customs officers the right to demand records of any fax or email communication that it suspected of discussing controlled technology. [03 Jul 1998]
