health in case studies
Kiln builds a bigger insurance data pot
Case Study Some of our products require us to hold personal data, including health records, for a specified amount of time. It's not hard to see that the UK financial services landscape is changing in quite fundamental ways. [09 Oct 2008]
Danone on health kick with Itil
Case Study Danone has improved the management and development of its IT infrastructure after implementing an IT infrastructure library (Itil) framework. Until a few years ago, the food manufacturer operated a fairly localised IT and support... [30 Jul 2008]
NHS brushes up on Itil
Case Study NHS IT delivery organisation Sussex Health Informatics Services (HIS) has implemented an extensive Itil (IT infrastructure library) training programme for staff and kept costs down by partnering with the training company... [11 Jun 2008]
Suffolk Councils join up IT to save costs
Case Study The district councils in the county are responsible for environmental health, leisure, housing, waste collection, pest control and crematoria. Suffolk County Council and Mid Suffolk District Council have merged IT... [05 Feb 2008]
Rotherham NHS ups network access security
Case Study Stowe said: "We looked at the Connecting for Health integration solution but it is based on a Novell infrastructure, so that would have meant completely replacing directory services. Rotherham NHS Primary Care Trust... [25 Jan 2008]
SMS reminders help NHS tackle forgetful patients
Case Study The Patient Care Messaging (PCM) software, which is made by healthcare application developer iPLATO, is being used by 24 NHS Primary Care Trusts to enable GP surgeries to send automatic and targeted appointment and... [07 Jan 2008]
Mothercare tears up paper-based store comms
Case Study The key functionality of the application suite includes store and task planning, business forms to do with accident and health and safety, POS graphics ordering and staff surveys. Mothercare has sped up communication... [03 Jul 2007]
Itil is good medicine for Barts
Case Study Plan-Net had previously carried out a health check for the ICT department and had a good understanding of how mature the Barts' systems were for Itil implementation. Barts and the London NHS Trust is reaping the rewards... [11 Apr 2007]
NHS IT under 24-hour surveillance
Case Study The University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has started monitoring its software systems to predict problems and avoid outages. The Trust is using NetIQ AppManager to monitor the running of its IT services from an end-user... [20 Mar 2007]
How UCAS made its website a high achiever
Case Study Although the site can cope with up to 7,000 concurrent users and 2,000 staff users, OneSight allows UCAS to monitor the website's key performance indicators of health and availability. The UCAS (University and Colleges... [16 Feb 2007]
Publisher gets smart about marketing
Case Study The company, which publishes both print and electronic materials on health, safety, legal and finance issues, has grown by acquisition and in the process acquired several sets of customers that it didn't necesarily know... [28 Nov 2006]
Cornish brewery drinks to mobile working
Case Study The brewery is looking to develop mobile computing further, with plans to roll out a handheld application for quality control and health and safety checks at its pubs, a process currently conducted on paper. [06 Sep 2006]
Remote access gains for Bedford NHS Trust
Case Study Getting in health specialists such as radiologists is an expensive overhead and the trust wants them to do so increasingly using the new set-up. Bedford Hospital NHS Trust has revamped its approach to remote access,... [08 Aug 2006]
Secure network improves NHS diabetes care
Case Study Remote access to central databases is allowing health staff in the east of England to reach more patients faster. The Suffolk West Primary Care Trust Diabetic Eye Screening Service (Dess) screens patients to see if... [11 Oct 2005]
Health workers go walkabout
Case Study BlackBerrys were too expensive for the Surrey and Sussex Strategic Health Authority (SHA), so it had to find something cheaper for remote access to email. At one of England's largest SHAs managers are constantly on the... [23 Sep 2005]
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