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RSS health in newsHealth trust abandons NHS care record upgrade
News A health trust serving more than 500,000 people said it has pulled out of the national NHS IT electronic care record programme because it has lost confidence in the project following the departure of key supplier Fujitsu. [22 Jul 2008]
Hospitals roll out RFID
News About 175 hospitals are expected to have joined the scheme by the end of the year, ahead of the target set in the Department of Health Coding for Success report in February 2007. Connecting for Health (CfH) said the NHS was also looking at using... [09 Jul 2008]
NHS data handling: Calls for independent audits
News The potential change was revealed by Marlene Winfield, national patient lead for NHS IT body Connecting for Health. She said the Department of Health had issued guidance to the local strategic health authorities urging them to consider bringing in... [07 Jul 2008]
ICO: Data breach law moves closer
News The Department of Health recently revealed that many trusts were unlikely to complete encryption of personal data for several months. The UK's privacy watchdog says the country is a step closer to getting a law forcing organisations to reveal data... [03 Jul 2008]
Probe into loss of 21,000 hospital patient details
News The Department of Health recently revealed it would take at least six months for trusts to complete encryption of all machines, from when work began in most trusts in March. A hospital trust faces possible enforcement action by the UK information... [30 Jun 2008]
Gov't slams Fujitsu's "core contract" NHS IT failings
News Health minister Ben Bradshaw said Fujitsu was unable to fulfil vital elements of its "core contract" to provide part of the £12.7bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT). Fujitsu has previously said the sticking point in these negotiations for a... [26 Jun 2008]
RFID could disrupt medical devices, say researchers
News Radio frequency ID RFID) technology can interfere with medical equipment, according to a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association. The study by six Dutch scientists has found electromagnetic interference (EMI) generated by... [25 Jun 2008]
NHS data left lacking encryption
News There is no central monitoring within the NHS to ensure that trusts have carried out encryption, with it being left up to the strategic health authorities to check on compliance. A number of health trusts are expected to be months late meeting a... [24 Jun 2008]
Microsoft's future in the post-Bill Gates era
News But do they need to be building Zune 3.0 or a health-record repository? As the end of an era draws near, silicon.com looks at what Bill Gates' departure will mean for the company he founded and made into such a phenomenal success in this new world... [24 Jun 2008]
Treasury turns to tech guru to slash IT costs
News A number of recent large IT projects by the government are late or over budget, including systems used by the Child Support Agency and the National Health Service. The government has drafted in a former blue chip CEO to help slash the £13bn spent... [23 Jun 2008]
University ramps up network bandwidth for e-learning
News The university selected ntl:Telewest Business to replace its WAN with a high speed metro Ethernet VPN network, which connects its main building and central campus at Northampton Square in Clerkenwell to 10 remote sites, including Cass Business... [23 Jun 2008]
Parliament websites go to the polls
News Last year's winners included health minister Alan Johnson MP and this year's winners will be announced in November. Parliament and politicians are increasingly making use of the web but it's now the public's turn to have a say on which MP has the... [20 Jun 2008]
NHS broadband network speeds patient diagnosis
News The network is being delivered by BT, working with the Kent and Medway Health Informatics Service. In future, N3 could also be used to deliver telehealth, where patients monitor their own health at home without having to make a trip to hospital. [18 Jun 2008]
NHS head defends major IT delays
News The head of the NHS has defended delays that have kept a key system from going live in the £12.7bn upgrade of health service IT. Six years into the national NHS IT programme (NPfIT) the Lorenzo care records systems have still not gone live anywhere... [18 Jun 2008]
Workers waste company time online
News You're not alone… Health warning to overweight IT managers How the staffing crisis is deepening Is the office getting you down? The British economy is losing billions through workers surfing the web when they... [11 Jun 2008]
