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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 NHS... [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. Data gathered by the instruments can then be accessed by clinicians using a... [15 Sep 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]
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. The matter is important now because of... [03 Aug 2009]
Voice, video, data: £1bn gov't telecoms contract up for grabs
News Central and local government departments, NHS organisations and other public bodies will be provided with telecoms goods, services and client side support under the framework agreement put out by Buying Solutions, the... [10 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 reported in The Times yesterday, the... [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... [07 Jul 2009]
Whitehall IT to pack its bags for pastures new?
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. The centre's performance has been... [24 Jun 2009]
'Innovation, not cutbacks, is right prescription for NHS IT'
News Ken Lunn, NHS Connecting for Health's director of data standards and products, said earlier in June that the organisation is agnostic toward open-source software, and that CfH is helping develop such... [22 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo The man with overall control of the NPfIT under Burnham will be Mike O'Brien, minister for health services, who will have responsibility for NHS IT and Connecting for Health. NHS IT suppliers BT and CSC... [10 Jun 2009]
Brighton and Sussex NHS Trust Gains New Productivity, Efficiency and Insight With Enterprise Application Upgrade
White Paper Brighton and Sussex NHS Trust wanted to leverage technology advances to build a scalable, resilient, flexible, secure IT environment with near-100% uptime and gain timely, usable financial data to... [30 May 2009]
NHS warned: It's time to beat the breaches
News The Information Commissioner's Office is putting pressure on the NHS to improve data security at its facilities, following a string of breaches. According to ICO figures, there have been 140... [26 May 2009]
How e-coding can prevent NHS slip-ups
Comment GS1 UK, a not-for-profit organisation with promotes data standards for supply chains, has been supporting the Department of Health's (DoH) 'Coding for Success' policy through initiatives with several NHS... [20 May 2009]
350,000 NHS email accounts Exchanged in massive migration
News The NHS has finished the migration of more than 350,000 NHS email accounts to Microsoft Exchange. By the time the project finishes in 2013 every NHS employee - about 1.2 million people -... [29 Apr 2009]
"I am frankly not much excited by technology per se"
Comment Creese worked first as a developer for an information centre for the NHS management board, then as a programmer for the British Medical Association. What I think changed for me was that I could see the potential for... [22 Apr 2009]
