NHS IT
RSS NHS IT£500,000 fine coming for businesses that lose data?
News Of these organisations more than 200 were private companies and 209 were NHS health trusts and bodies. Earlier this year the high level of losses among NHS trusts prompted the ICO to write to the... [12 Nov 2009]
Photos: The hottest tech out of the UK's Silicon Valley
Photo The system is being trialled with 150 patient records at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and, if it is successful, the company has 15 other NHS hospitals interested in using the system. With... [24 Sep 2009]
Photos: Medical tech of the future, from robo-pills to cyber-surgeons
Photo While the debate over the future of technology in the NHS rages on, the next generation of surgical tech is already on the way. This is the legged camera pill, a robotic prototype developed by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna,... [15 Sep 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Outsourcing
Cheat Sheet In addition, outsourcing megadeals - contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds to deliver a range of services over multiple years - have also enjoyed something of a comeback recently, as shown by the likes of BT's £500m contract... [11 Sep 2009]
Eye Hospital Reduces Energy Costs by £10,000 a Year With Virtualised Servers
White Paper The IT department at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for deploying and hosting medical and business software for the whole of the organisation. With only five people on the... [28 Aug 2009]
Future of the NHS: Medical records online could transform healthcare
News Healthcare in the UK could be revolutionised by letting patients view their medical records online, according to senior NHS insiders. Giving patients access to electronic records will play a vital role in helping the... [21 Aug 2009]
Tories plan to revamp NHS IT gets grim diagnosis
News Launching the review shadow health minister, Stephen O'Brien, said in a statement: "Labour's handling of NHS IT has been shambolic. Their top-down, bureaucratic plans have been hugely disruptive to the... [10 Aug 2009]
Underwater robots, Google Moon, edible beetles and ID cards
Photo Photo credit: Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust Moon lets users visit the sites of each Apollo landing and access panoramic images and YouTube clips by following links provided. Here, you can see the location where astronauts... [04 Aug 2009]
Fujitsu techies may strike over pensions and pay
News Fujitsu Services builds and runs IT systems for public-sector and large private-sector organisations, from the NHS to the aviation, financial services and telecommunications industries.... [04 Aug 2009]
Offshoring: Is resistance weakening at Whitehall?
News Whitehall already offshores a limited amount of work, including some back office operations under the NHS Shared Business Services Centre run by Steria and the Department of Health. After years of resistance to... [03 Aug 2009]
Virtualisation and cloud: The new weapons in the outsourcing arms race
News Recent megadeals have included BT's £500m contract with the NHS, IBM and CSC's £300m deals with the government's Identity and Passport Service, and a £685m deal for HP-EDS at insurance giant Aviva. As IT... [14 Jul 2009]
Photos: How touchscreen tech helps a hospital keep tabs on patients
Photo Photo credit: Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust A number of NHS hospitals have already deployed RFID for tracking purposes, with the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley in Scotland using the tags to keep tabs... [09 Jul 2009]
NHS records, Google and Microsoft: Where do you want your data?
Comment The Conservatives have come up with a new vision of how to fix the problems plaguing Labour's £12.7bn revamp of NHS IT - put it under the private sector knife. Under the proposals... [07 Jul 2009]
NHS network: Time to get secure
Comment While the NHS has made some attempts to secure its networks, the onus now falls on health trusts to make sure patient data is safe, says Alan Hunt. Now that the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is promising to get... [07 Jul 2009]
End of the line for NHS IT agency?
News Consultation is to take place over the future of the agency that has overseen the £12.7bn revamp of NHS IT. It is part of a shake-up of the way that NHS... [24 Jun 2009]
