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Biometric airport security gets thumbs-up
News X is for X-ray Fingerprint and iris scans were used for screening more than 3,000 passengers who volunteered to take part in the trial on Cathay Pacific and Emirates flights to and from... [20 Jun 2007]
Richard Granger's NHS IT legacy
News The digital x-ray Picture Archiving and Communications System has also been hailed as a success. After five years in charge of the biggest IT project in the world NHS IT director-general Richard Granger... [18 Jun 2007]
Home care moves into the 21st century
News In other news, the Department of Health (DoH) announced earlier this week that London's 21 NHS hospital trusts have completed the rollout of a digital X-ray system. The Picture Archiving and... [23 May 2007]
NHS Trust cuts the wires, plans for RFID
News The extra network capacity is expected to make the distribution of X-ray film unnecessary, as medical staff should be able to access X-rays digitally. Scarborough NHS Trust has signed a... [09 May 2007]
Photos: First look at Microsoft's NHS software
Photo Pictured is an X-ray of a bunion on the top half of the screen and on the lower half there are a selection of 'care pathways'. The care pathways are basically segmented to-do lists reminding the... [08 Mar 2007]
NHS hits 18,000 broadband connections target
News The £530m project is being run by BT and is key to the delivery of new services such as electronic prescriptions and the Picture Archiving and Communications digital X-ray system. The N3 broadband... [08 Feb 2007]
NHS IT switchover completed
News Accenture retains responsibility for delivering the Picture Archiving and Communication digital X-ray systems to the NHS. Accenture has completed the handover of the NHS IT systems it was running to CSC,... [11 Jan 2007]
Heathrow to run biometric security checks
News The airport authorities and the UK government claim the system will improve security and border controls by allowing passengers to bypass long queues at security and immigration - although in reality the passenger must still pass through... [06 Dec 2006]
Police crackdown to see drivers fingerprinted
News X is for X-ray Bedfordshire Police is the first of 10 forces to start fingerprint identity checks at the roadside as part of a national project called Lantern. It's the second high tech... [22 Nov 2006]
BP pioneers 'DIY IT' scheme for employees
News You are less likely to leave it at the X-ray machine at the airport or in the back of a car, and you are less likely to download questionable stuff because it is your machine. Oil giant BP is pioneering... [11 Oct 2006]
Accenture pulls out of £12.4bn NHS IT project
News Accenture will hand over its delivery obligations for CfH to CSC by 8 January 2007 but will retain responsibility for delivering the Picture Archiving and Communication (Pacs) digital X-ray systems to... [28 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport security frustrations
Comment This tension maker was followed by a fast-track security line so long that it very quickly became slow-track and led to the usual baggage X-ray and metal detector process. Despatched to silicon.com from... [25 Sep 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.09.06
Round-Up One of the most common reasons for loss, according to the chairman of one company that handles lost property at Heathrow and Gatwick, is forgetting to pick them up again once they've been put through the... [08 Sep 2006]
Leader: The good of IT in healthcare
Leader Often the X-ray would get lost in the process and have to be redone. The NHS IT modernisation programme has received its fair share of criticism. Much of which, granted, might well be warranted - with... [17 Aug 2006]
Digital X-ray plan hits halfway in London and south
News Half of hospitals in London and the south of England have now been equipped with new digital X-ray systems. But while some parts of the country are benefiting from the new technology, others are lagging... [09 Aug 2006]
