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Future of the NHS: Medical records online could transform healthcare
News The amount of healthcare information available online will only increase as society becomes tech savvy, according to Frances Blunden, senior policy manager with the NHS Confederation, the membership body for the National... [21 Aug 2009]
BBC is taking tech seriously, so give it a break!
Comment Just this week we witnessed similar levels of outrage when the BBC announced it will allow some of its news video content - focusing on UK politics, business, health and science and technology - to be used on the... [31 Jul 2009]
Four years on, which NHS projects have failed to hit their targets?
News Currently, seven years into the National Programme for IT, only 148 PAS have been deployed in 380 health trusts, while delays to the deployments mean the majority of these systems are interim solutions,... [23 Jun 2009]
How the £12.7bn NHS IT revamp came off the rails
News Fast forward to 2009, and the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is facing a number of difficulties: key projects to digitise patient records are running four years late, two major suppliers have walked away from the... [19 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo NHS IT suppliers BT and CSC have been told by the Department of Health they must speed up the rollout of key Care Record Service systems by November this year or risk seeing the scheme broken up.... [10 Jun 2009]
National Health Service Maximizes IT Value With Tailored Technical Guidance
White Paper The National Health Service (NHS) is the United Kingdom's primary healthcare organization, providing care to approximately 60 million citizens. While the NHS has a central IT agency that... [30 May 2009]
Wyeth UK Gains Single Customer View and Drives Customer Focus With Companywide CRM System
White Paper Wyeth wanted to become the most customer-oriented healthcare company in the United Kingdom within three years and move from a product-oriented approach to a customer-oriented approach to better manage customer relationships with... [30 May 2009]
350,000 NHS email accounts Exchanged in massive migration
News When we did staff at the London Strategic Health Authority we did 50,000 accounts in one weekend, which is probably comparable to a very large corporate like Tesco doing all of their services. Cable & Wireless, which... [29 Apr 2009]
NHS e-records given six-month deadline
News Department of Health (DoH) director general for informatics Christine Connelly said in a statement: "We will be working closely with the NHS and our current suppliers to improve the pace of delivery. Connelly also gave... [28 Apr 2009]
BT deal 'has killed risk of NHS IT walkout'
News One of the only two suppliers left for the £12.7bn project to revamp NHS IT has staked its commitment to the project by signing a new deal with the health service. Such rumours have effectively been put... [06 Apr 2009]
NHS IT delays laid bare by £1.8bn underspend
News It will be the fourth year in a row that NHS IT body Connecting for Health (CfH) has failed to spend all of its allocated capital funds, taking the total capital underspend for the agency since 2005 to almost £1.8bn. [02 Apr 2009]
"I'm not an out and out technology person"
Comment The CAA will determine the quality of services such as education and health in a given area using the collective knowledge of local authorities as well as national inspectorates to rate the performance... [09 Mar 2009]
Director shake-up: Saviour of NHS IT project?
News After years of delays and rising costs on the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), the body which oversees the programme, Connecting for Health (CfH), will see its remit reduced to supporting a new... [09 Mar 2009]
Sophos Case Study: Sussex Health Informatics Service
White Paper Sussex Health Informatics Service (HIS) manages the IT services for eleven National Health Service (NHS) trusts throughout the county. Its deployment of... [04 Mar 2009]
I-CODE Brings the Benefits of RFID to Blood Sample Tracking
White Paper Currently undergoing UK trials at the Pathology Laboratory of the Portsmouth NHS (National Health Service) Trust, Proxximity's BioTag Positive ID System has already shown major... [02 Mar 2009]
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