hospital in comment and analysis
Outsourcing - how to make sure it's reliable
Comment A lack of confidence in the IT systems also breeds a lack of trust in the overall management and leadership of your organisation in the same way that an inefficient hospital receptionist will cause anxiety about the... [19 Oct 2009]
Four steps to smarter outsourcing
Comment For example, a hospital will have very different data to worry about when compared to a bank - but both must ensure rigorous data security to meet regulatory standards. Whether you're new to outsourcing or an old pro,... [02 Sep 2009]
India outsourcing workers stressed to the limit
Comment But in the end, all it took was a schedule that went out-of-whack for a week for him to land up in the hospital with acute gastric problems. Ash (not his real name), an employee with a multinational firm's captive... [25 Aug 2009]
How e-coding can prevent NHS slip-ups
Comment Another hospital embracing e-coding is Wythenshawe Hospital in South Manchester, which is using GS1 standards to uniquely identify, track and trace its trays containing surgical instruments. A unique... [20 May 2009]
Bangalore's brain gain
Comment The Moudgal family lives in St John's Wood, a residential high-rise in the Koramangala suburb of Bangalore, so named because it was built on land that belonged to the missionary hospital nearby. In mid 2007, 20 years... [17 Mar 2009]
Indian outsourcers shore up their defences
Comment The horrific attacks on hotels, a train station, a bar café, an apartment block and a hospital in Mumbai at the end of November, streamed live on television accompanied by incessant commentary, rattled the world. [10 Dec 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Quality by design
Comment Everything from hospital and office cleanliness to vehicle reliability, from IT services to mobile devices, is harmed by such perversity of process. Written on the flight back to London and dispatched via a free wi-fi... [09 Jul 2008]
Can biometrics secure the public's data?
Comment There was an incident at a hospital a few weeks ago where a celebrity's health records were illicitly viewed by 50 employees. With the furore over 25 million missing child benefit records, the public sector's use of... [23 Nov 2007]
John Thorp
CIO Profile Thorp has a master's degree from Cranfield University, where he is a visiting lecturer, and he is also a non-executive member of the Bedford Hospital NHS Trust. John Thorp joined FTSE100 consumer electronics retailer DSG... [06 Jun 2007]
Leader: Fear sells?
Leader A company called 3V in this case has conducted research which shows consumers are more worried about identity theft than gun crime, climate change and hospital superbug MRSA. Security companies have long been aware there... [23 Jan 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.11.06
Round-Up And in the week when it transpired that the Western world will be ruled for at least the next year by a lame duck and a poodle - which sounds more like the cast of Animal Hospital than a quarter of the G8 - it's fitting... [10 Nov 2006]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: The worst ever 419 scam emails
Comment WE ARE REALLY VERY HAPPY THAT THE KIDS WERE NOT DEAD AND ARE STILL IN THE HOSPITAL HERE," he cheerfully points out. They sit in grimy internet cafés around the globe, biting their nails, not daring to touch the keyboard,... [27 Sep 2006]
Leader: The good of IT in healthcare
Leader But ironically at a Northern Ireland hospital trust outside the remit of the NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) programme, silicon.com has seen just how beneficial IT can be to doctors and patients. The NHS IT modernisation... [17 Aug 2006]
Leader: A tale of two IT chiefs - Tesco vs the NHS
Leader But which is more important - enough toilet roll being in stock and on the shelf for your weekly shop (and satisfying your shareholders) or a hospital doctor being able to access your electronic medical record at the... [30 May 2006]
Interview: NHS IT director general Richard Granger
Comment But some hospital doctors want a full view of everything that might be relevant to treating the patient in front of them and many GPs want the information they collected with a patient on a basis of trust. [26 May 2006]
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