England
RSS EnglandFour years on, which NHS projects have failed to hit their targets?
News Today the deployment of the CRS is four years behind schedule and is not likely to be implemented across every NHS health trust in England and Wales until 2014 or 2015. It added that a focus on trying to create a "common... [23 Jun 2009]
HP TRIM Software Has Major Impact on Record Management at Ministry of Justice
White Paper The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is responsible for the courts, prisons, probation, criminal law and sentencing in England and Wales. Due to changes in legislation the MoJ decided that it needed an Electronic Document and... [21 Jun 2009]
New England LawBoston Upgrades Critical e-Mail System/services and Enhances Performance - While Conserving Space and Energy
White Paper Founded in 1908, New England LawBoston (NELB) needed a top-to-bottom upgrade of its aging technology infrastructure as the school approached its centennial - and had to accomplish that task within the limits on space,... [12 Jun 2009]
3Com Global Services Delivers Turnkey Network Solution to Grow Award-Winning Scottish Law Firm, EMEA
White Paper With two offices in Glasgow, Scotland, and one in Manchester, England, Golds Solicitors (Golds) is a highly successful UK law firm. Golds sought a converged network solution to deliver maximum performance at minimum cost... [12 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo Johnson will also have responsibility for the Police National Database - a national police intelligence system, allowing forces across England and Wales to share information on people, objects, locations and events. [10 Jun 2009]
Real-world business intelligence
Comment B&B uses its BI systems for a variety of information management tasks ranging from calculating risks on mortgage lending to providing regulatory reporting to authorities such as the FSA and the Bank of England. [05 Jun 2009]
Richard Steel
CIO Profile He is passionate about the importance of robust IT infrastructure and while at the helm of Socitm continued its support for the continued rollout of Government Connect, a secure network linking central government and every local... [03 Jun 2009]
Police IT: 'Lots of money is being wasted'
News Police forces in England and Wales are wasting money by failing to collaborate when buying new IT, according to the director general of the CBI. The CBI's Richard Lambert said that the separate nature of the 43 forces... [03 Jun 2009]
Christine Connelly
CIO Profile Connelly recently pledged to end delays to the introduction of electronic medical records across England, saying that if there is not significant progress in delivery by November 2009, the DoH will move to a new plan for... [01 Jun 2009]
Health System Saves Hours of Labor, Increases User Productivity With Virtualization
White Paper Care New England, a healthcare system with three hospitals and more than 90 off-site clinics and other facilities, maintains 4,200 workstations that support the organization in providing clinical care and running the... [30 May 2009]
Wholesale Electric Energy Market Analysis With Electronic Quarterly Reports Data
White Paper In the first six months of 2008, physical sales of wholesale electric energy in New England totaled approximately $13.4 billion. This paper explains how to bring EQR data into SAS, clean it up, and produce useful... [29 May 2009]
Test for Linearity Between Continuous Confounder and Binary Outcome First, Run a Multivariate Regression Analysis Second
White Paper The paper illustrates this issue using clinical data that the author recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Previous statistical studies have indicated that dichotomizing a continuous... [29 May 2009]
And the most flexible town in the UK is...
News Meanwhile Wales was found to be the most flexible region with almost a third (29 per cent) of workers saying they work remotely, beating off competition from the South of England (25 per cent) and Scotland (22 per cent). [27 May 2009]
Legal Eye: How to save money with offshoring
Comment With the Bank of England's policy of sustained quantitative easing driving down the value of the pound, the impact of foreign exchange fluctuations must be considered. Looking to save money from offshoring? [26 May 2009]
How e-coding can prevent NHS slip-ups
Comment The DoH policy recommends that the GS1 System of coding be adopted throughout the healthcare system in England. How can electronic coding help hospitals? GS1 UK's Gary Lynch counts the ways… A survey we ran recently in... [20 May 2009]
