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Health

South-west hospitals connect using telemedicine solution

rehabilitation doctor
Experts at Bristol Royal Children’s Hospital using technology from Radvision to advise clinicians in Cornwall and Devon
01 Aug 2011

UK investment in healthcare IT to top £3bn by 2016

A NHS doctor working at a computer
The UK’s ageing population is driving increased investment
27 Jul 2011

Department of Health laptop losses total £200k

Medical checkup in doctor's office - doctor working with laptop nurse in background measuring patient blood pressure
Department admits it only started encrypting devices in 2006
12 Jul 2011

Uptake of e-prescription technology held back by poor interoperability and GUIs

Industry analysts Ovum argue that vendors need to up their game
05 Jul 2011

Resuscitating NHS IT


21 Jun 2011

EC approves CSC's iSoft acquisition

Competition regulator rubber-stamps buy-out of e-health firm behind controversial Lorenzo system
21 Jun 2011

ICO investigates NHS loss of 8.63m patient records

The Information Commissioner's Office has said it is looking into the alleged loss of an NHS laptop containing sensitive patient records
15 Jun 2011

NHS body goes live with e-invoicing system

Anglia Shared Services promises faster payments for suppliers using e-invoicing system
15 Jun 2011

NHS electronic care records project fails to achieve aim

How is the NHS electronic care records project failing and what can be done to address the problem?
10 Jun 2011

London Ambulance Service to outsource its financial services

LAS minimum three-year outsourcing contract is worth £2.3m
07 Jun 2011

Savings from Somerset shared services falling well short of target

Southwest One partnership beset by SAP deployment issues
07 Jun 2011

Cambridge and Papworth trusts team up for e-hospital tender

Trusts' joint tender includes tablets, virtualisation and cloud implementations for common technology platform
07 Jun 2011

IT framework saves hospital £100,000 per year

Identifying maturity levels using IT-CMF has helped Beaumont Hospital prioritise projects
02 Jun 2011

The price of progress

While new technologies can often improve life, all advances have costs that should not be ignored
31 May 2011

Surrey Council to trial PlayBook app for social workers

20 social workers will get to try out the software on RIM's new tablet device
26 May 2011

Tech Talk 31 - IT News and Debate

Join Tech Talk for lively discussion and debate of the week's top IT news stories
20 May 2011

NAO puts NPfIT on critical list

Spending watchdog urges government not to waste more money on NHS IT upgrade
18 May 2011

North Staffordshire Trust aims to save £100k a year with community network

112 NHS sites will initially be connected
13 May 2011

Strength through unified comms

IT leaders from the public and private sectors talk about the challenges and benefits of deploying unified communications
11 May 2011

Nottingham hospitals deploy real-time workforce management system

The solution makes use of tablets and mobile devices to keep doctors updated
05 May 2011

Capita completes first phase of ICT installation at new Kent hospital

The contract, worth £3.4m, has seen the company install a medical grade network infrastructure, WLAN and IP systems
04 May 2011

Gateshead NHS trust slashes datacentre costs

Management software from Veeam ensures virtualition programme delivers major savings
03 May 2011

London-based NHS trust rolls out patient record hub

The installation is being carried out by BT and Cerner Millennium
27 Apr 2011

NHS Trust uses upgraded VPN to sell cloud services

A south London NHS Trust has cut costs and generated new revenue thanks to a recent network upgrade
20 Apr 2011