healthcare care in comment and analysis
Graham Knight
CIO Profile As CIO of General Healthcare Group - the largest independent owner of private hospitals in the UK with 54 acute care hospitals and 37 pharmacies - Knight has a variety of challenges. He has also worked as CTO and programme director at General... [11 Jun 2008]
Brampton Factor: NHS IT - can this project be saved?
Comment We started from a situation where the NHS, whatever its failings, was delivering a reasonable standard of care while consuming a substantially lower proportion of national income than healthcare systems elsewhere. [19 Sep 2006]
Leader: No to any NHS IT whitewash
Leader Just this month we can see evidence of that in the £19m that some healthcare trusts in the south of England have had to pay to get out of a contract that could have seen them paying more than £50m per year in penalties to lead contractor Fujitsu... [27 Jun 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 05.08.05
Round-Up And the bad news for Microsoft marketing executives is that it's owned by a company representing the healthcare interests of old men with guns. Two non-profit groups - The Vista Software Alliance (VA) and Worldvista - provide specialist software... [09 Aug 2005]
Will IP unify communications?
Comment Other likely users are home workers and people in the education and healthcare sectors. That said, the NHS is using a web conferencing tool for internal purposes: people from over 700 different organisations within the system are using ECP Connect... [18 Feb 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Fractal stupidity
Comment Is Enron any worse than governments that arrange their GDP figures, education and healthcare statistics to meet market and social expectations, to win voters and exert influence? Building health care systems that see staff and managers inherently... [11 Mar 2004]
Peter Cochrane’s Uncommon Sense: Medical records
Comment But looking back at the history of healthcare we can see that the biggest gains have actually arisen from the simplest of revolutions. Ageing populations, extended lifetimes, rising patient expectations, more chronic and long lasting illnesses... [24 Jul 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Online healthcare, Lotus rebranding and Amex won over by the net
Comment In 1999, a survey which was run by Dr Tom Ferguson in conjunction with the Sapient Health Network (now WebMD.com) indicated the internet was driving some major changes in the healthcare industry. The ultimate consequence of this is that the... [20 Jan 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Online healthcare, Lotus rebranding and Amex won over by the net
Comment In 1999, a survey which was run by Dr Tom Ferguson in conjunction with the Sapient Health Network (now WebMD.com) indicated the internet was driving some major changes in the healthcare industry. The ultimate consequence of this is that the... [20 Jan 2003]
NHS goes big on IT
Comment What does a minister do when faced with terms and operational dilemmas that arguably equal any of those facing doctors and other healthcare professionals? Users in healthcare and independent experts see things differently. [18 Apr 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: NT clusters, open source in healthcare and Bezos' brand new dilemma
Comment However, healthcare now suddenly finds itself leading the market, rather than bucking it, in its adoption of open source software and Linux. There are several reasons for this, not least of which is that funds for software development are often... [10 Apr 2000]
Database Nation: Privacy Under Attack
Comment Although the devices were originally intended for the healthcare and food industries, a recent study found that routine washing can also cut down on disease transmission among white-collar workers. The veiled threat isn't empty, but you decide you... [07 Feb 2000]
Golden opportunities in European online healthcare
Comment The consumer healthcare market in the US will be worth $205.2bn by 2003, according to Jupiter Communications. Healtheon, whose main product is a service that allows doctors to submit claims to insurance companies through a Web site, has bought... [11 Jun 1999]
Analysis: UK telemedicine finally gets into gear
Comment The main problem is that UK healthcare lacks the direct link between demand and supply which would guarantee the speedy take-up of new technologies. The US - which boasts a $5bn telemedicine industry - illustrates the difference that privatised... [17 Aug 1998]
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