patient 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. Knight is working on an enterprise... [11 Jun 2008]
Can biometrics secure the public's data?
Comment And if the legalities are taken care of, who knows what the biometrics future will hold. Apparently, systems that support electronic patient records - a central part of the National Programme for IT... [23 Nov 2007]
Paul Otellini
AS Profile Launched back in February, the mobile clinical assistant could revolutionise patient care. Otellini has been president and CEO since May 2005 but is an Intel veteran with more than 30 years under his belt. [12 Oct 2007]
Leader: Should we doubt NHS IT?
Leader Few hackers would waste their time trying to attack an individual GP's office to access data - in contrast the uploaded care record would be a very juicy target for a hacker to go after. News today that the NHS has been... [18 Dec 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Why is customer service so hard?
Comment Whilst this might sometimes focus on a very narrow view of profitability - hence call centres trying to shave seconds from the call rather than really listening to customers - competition means that many organisations are recognising the... [17 Nov 2006]
Editor's Blog: Rage against mobiles on planes
Comment That is simply not an option and anecdotally we know of plenty of instances where Luddite clinicians have made no secret about clinging to 'good old-fashioned' ways of doing things, sometimes at the expense of patient... [08 Aug 2006]
Leader: No to any NHS IT whitewash
Leader The care record system is now running two-and-a-half years late because GPs and the clinician community are unable to agree exactly which patient information should be stored on the electronic record - a... [27 Jun 2006]
Leader: NHS IT - now the real work begins
Leader Which means the IT modernisation project will be under increasing pressure to start proving it can improve patient care and cut costs at the same time. The NHS is often tagged as having the third biggest... [19 Jan 2006]
Peter Cochrane’s Uncommon Sense: Medical records
Comment Ageing populations, extended lifetimes, rising patient expectations, more chronic and long lasting illnesses, more people in need of long-term care, a lack of carers, limited medical staff, limited... [24 Jul 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Forget 'think different' - think 'non-linear'...
Comment When all were linked together to constitute the whole drive chain, it would indeed be optimum, providing a few issues of energy and torque matching have been taken care of. The really damaging outcome is that people die,... [09 Apr 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Online healthcare, Lotus rebranding and Amex won over by the net
Comment The survey posed 12 questions to just under 200 users of online medical support communities, each question representing a dimension of medical care and asking whether the patient (or should we say... [20 Jan 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Online healthcare, Lotus rebranding and Amex won over by the net
Comment The survey posed 12 questions to just under 200 users of online medical support communities, each question representing a dimension of medical care and asking whether the patient (or should we say... [20 Jan 2003]
NHS goes big on IT
Comment What chance now a wireless LAN connecting Linux-based servers in a rural backwater revolutionising local patient care? Plans for the NHS dominated today's budget coverage. At the centre of the debate on... [18 Apr 2002]
Model Management: Flying in the face of fear
Comment Though this finding may seem contradictory, the survey's authors suggest it may indicate that those who take care to protect their information tend to worry less about its misuse. Be patient. A survey by... [06 Mar 2001]
Database Nation: Privacy Under Attack
Comment The veiled threat isn't empty, but you decide you don't really care who finds out about your sprained wrist. To make up the difference, a number of hospitals have started selling patient records to... [07 Feb 2000]
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