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Local government tech contract bonanza
News Meanwhile down on the south coast Southampton City Council expects to save £20,000 in the first year of a project to migrate forms used by health carers to an electronic format. The project uses an application from... [29 Mar 2007]
Consumers' RFID fear must end - Brussels
News A communication on RFID adopted by the EC said: "With wider use, it becomes essential that the implementation of RFID takes place under a legal framework that affords citizens effective safeguards for fundamental values,... [16 Mar 2007]
NHS: 'No risk over smartcard sharing'
News NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has admitted smartcards were shared between staff at a Warwickshire hospital but denied that this compromised the confidentiality of patient data. Reports emerged recently that smartcards... [05 Feb 2007]
NHS signs up SAS in fight against fraud
News The NHS' fraud-busting unit has embarked on one of its biggest ever IT projects as part of its continued crackdown on the millions of pounds lost through fraud in the health service each year. The NHS CFS claims to have... [24 Jan 2007]
NHS staff e-learn Microsoft software
News An NHS Connecting for Health spokeswoman said a strength of the e-learning programme is that the NHS can now provide training to everyone who needs it "whenever and wherever it is required". The NHS has... [20 Dec 2006]
Patients get NHS e-record opt out
News He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Once your information has been uploaded from your GP to the central systems you will have an enormous job in getting it deleted or getting it changed if it's wrong and you will have no control over... [18 Dec 2006]
'Mobile phones don't cause cancer' - study
News There have been concerns about the health risks of mobile phones for several years due to the electromagnetic fields they emit. A team at the Danish Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen was given access to... [06 Dec 2006]
Sex clinic gives good text
News The genito-urinary medicine (GUM) and sexual health clinics are to run a four-week pilot of the scheme through January. Ivens added that the system is a response to the Department of Health's (DoH)... [30 Nov 2006]
Kids risk "e-discrimination" warns think tank
News One area of concern FIPR highlighted is "e-discrimination", where the system that attempts to predict which children will become delinquent, by totting up negative indicators from health, school and... [22 Nov 2006]
Wireless health tech targets baby boomers
News A new generation of wireless health systems will monitor healthy people and warn them if they are at risk of becoming sick. What is missing, the analyst claims, is the intelligence to allow these systems to spot trends... [21 Jul 2006]
$100 laptop: 'Fundamentally flawed'
News The organisation is looking to expand its remit to include working with local health clinics to provide e-learning systems for nurses, and tele-medicine capabilities. The One Laptop per Child (OLPC)... [21 Jun 2006]
Government services miss online deadline
News My Healthspace (due late 2007) at the Department of Health. A list of the government services that are still not available electronically has been revealed. The government's aim had been that all of its services would be... [12 Apr 2006]
Xansa, Fujitsu Services land public sector outsourcing wins
News It will be used for Directgov, the public's one-stop shop for public services information and now part of the COI; the Department of Health's corporate web service; and several services for the Department of Education... [30 Mar 2006]
Intel's Barrett: UK needs more silver surfers
News He added: "If you want them to interface with an increasingly electronic health system and government as it becomes more of an e-government, then they have to have internet capabilities. Older people... [09 Mar 2006]
Healthy progress for NHS e-record system
News The record was electronically transferred from Cowes Health Centre to Grove House Surgery on the Isle of Wight, via the NHS Spine using clinical software from supplier In Practice Systems, according to NHS Connecting for... [28 Feb 2006]
