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Does open source pose a security risk?
News Photos: 60 years of NHS tech A May study funded by the US Department of Homeland Security praised improvements in open-source security. The security practices of open-source IT developers should lead enterprises to think twice before using open... [22 Jul 2008]
Hospitals roll out RFID
News Connecting for Health (CfH) said the NHS was also looking at using RFID tags to track shipments in NHS logistics and to improve other services. The AIDC has been set up by CfH with standards organisation GS1 UK in conjunction with the National... [09 Jul 2008]
NHS data handling: Calls for independent audits
News NHS trusts are being urged to introduce independent auditors to make sure they are keeping to guidelines to protect their handling of patient data. The potential change was revealed by Marlene Winfield, national patient lead for NHS IT body... [07 Jul 2008]
Probe into loss of 21,000 hospital patient details
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) will investigate whether Colchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust breached the Data Protection Act when it failed to encrypt 21,000 patient details. [30 Jun 2008]
NHS data left lacking encryption
News NHS trusts will not have completed encrypting patients' personal data held on their computers until later this year. There is no central monitoring within the NHS to ensure that trusts have carried out encryption, with it being left up to the... [24 Jun 2008]
IT swallows a quarter of NHS cash budget
News He said in a statement: "The department has not made an estimate of expenditure on NHS IT in the absence of a national programme but an independent review confirmed that the likely costs of each NHS trust undertaking procurements for IT solutions... [09 Jun 2008]
NHS cleans up keyboard act
News The NHS is introducing 7,500 infection-resistant keyboards in hospitals across England as part of efforts to make hospitals cleaner and safer. The keyboards have been developed by University College London Hospital in a pilot supported by the... [07 May 2008]
Top IT job at NHS split into two
News The Department of Health advertised for a CIO to "focus on the big picture of delivering our overall IT vision" and a director of the IT programme and system delivery to "focus on managing NHS Connecting for Health and enhancing partnerships with... [28 Apr 2008]
NHS CIO jumps ship
News The NHS CIO is to step down at the end of April, just months after taking the post. Matthew Swindells was acting as interim boss of the £12.4bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT) following the departure of NHS IT director general, Richard Granger... [15 Apr 2008]
Budget 2008: Tech companies fight for contract windfall
News A spokesman for Intellect said: "In the technology sector SME access to public contracts has been a real issue, particularly in the National Programme for IT [in the NHS], and Intellect has been working to improve the situation for smaller companies. [12 Mar 2008]
'Data guardians' keep a watch over HMRC
News A string of revelations about lost government data followed the HMRC data breach, including the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million learner drivers' details and the [29 Feb 2008]
Defra IT - blowing budgets and showing up late
News Chief secretary to the Treasury, Yvette Cooper, will scrutinise how the state delivers about a dozen major projects in areas ranging from NHS purchasing programmes to road building - including looking at the IT systems underpinning these schemes. [07 Feb 2008]
BlackBerrys squashed by Whitehall data ban
News The government has suffered a catalogue of embarrassing security breaches, which includes the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million learner drivers' details and the loss of more than 4,000 patient... [04 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.01.08
Round-Up The data consisted of names, passport details, national insurance numbers, drivers' licence particulars, information on family members, doctors' addresses and NHS numbers. The department has admitted that the data was not encrypted. [25 Jan 2008]
Gov't fails to keep court data locked up
News The data breach is the latest incident in an exhausting list of government security breaches, which includes the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million learner drivers' details and the HMRC losing 25... [23 Jan 2008]
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