healthcare in comment and analysis
The Naked CIO: Going public about privacy
Comment After all, security is a growing concern and the ability for, say, healthcare professionals to diagnose and cure patients has to be positive, right? But then again arguments about information sharing between agencies and healthcare institutions... [21 Jul 2008]
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]
Gareth Hill
CIO Profile South African Gareth Hill joined FTSE100 cleaning products and healthcare manufacturer, Reckitt Benckiser, as CIO in October 2006 and is also on the executive committee. Under Hill the company's IT function works closely with business functions to... [11 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: IT staff disloyalty
Comment My company as a matter of standard operating policy gives generous bonuses, healthcare and life insurance. Gone are the days when loyalty to your employer counted for something. What most readers found provocative in my column on recruitment... [31 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars
Comment The rest - the vast majority - have about a decade to take on board the significance of this opportunity for video conferencing and advanced gaming, not to mention for all the education, healthcare and business applications. [17 Mar 2008]
How closely are you monitoring?
Comment We have a healthcare provider growing its storage area network requirements by a bunch of gigabytes per month," he says. But the trick is knowing what to monitor and then how to monitor it, says Stewart Baines. [10 Dec 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Damn metrics
Comment In healthcare it is the classification of patients at the point they are officially diagnosed, recognised to be on a waiting list and treated. About 20 years ago I was drawn into a public debate and enquiry on the state of education and educational... [28 Aug 2007]
Gareth Hill
CIO Profile He joined FTSE100 cleaning products and healthcare manufacturer Reckitt Benckiser as CIO in October 2006 and is also on the executive committee. What they say about him: "Reckitt Benckiser CEO Bart Becht is renowned for hiring outstanding people... [06 Jun 2007]
Network horror stories expose need for understanding
Comment Another sacked employee, this time within the healthcare sector, used a similar vulnerability after his termination to launch a Trojan and wipe files and back-ups from company hard drives. As a number of horror stories reveal, corporate networks... [12 Apr 2007]
Leader: Biometrics - good or bad?
Leader And new research shows the general public in the UK and the US are in favour of the use of biometrics - not just in airports but also by banks, credit card companies, healthcare providers and the government. [07 Feb 2007]
Beating fraud - can business intelligence help?
Comment For all the talk of benefit cheats in trashy tabloids, typically the greatest level of fraud comes from within the health service - doctors and dentists who can soon accrue millions by working the system and relying on sheer volume of transactions... [17 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Poking CIOs with a stick
Comment This retrograde management attitude had a lot to do with the greater than 85 per cent failure rate of IT programmes through that era, that continues today in industry, defence, education and healthcare. [02 Oct 2006]
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]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Talk to the user
Comment Intersystems, which has had some success in UK and US healthcare applications, has an integration platform Ensemble that offers an easy-to-use way of showing users what the system will deliver. Because the people creating the technology fail to... [25 Aug 2006]
Editor's Blog: Of Luddite clinicians
Comment If healthcare providers, particularly the NHS, do something worth shouting about.shout about it. Responding to a recent post, a reader told me I was wrong to refer to 'Luddite clinicians'. I stand by that phrase but do hasten to point out I wasn't... [17 Aug 2006]
Keep updated for stories matching healthcare in comment and analysis via RSS
