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October 2007 articles (16)

Cross Talk on Lord Darzi’s interest in innovation

Posted on 26 October 2007 at 13:51 by NHS Resource Centre

Mike Cross reflects on Lord Darzi’s interim report on the NHS, which calls for a new emphasis on innovation. This, he argues, should be a great opportunity for the NHS IT community to prove their worth and drive change. Read more...

Tags: column, DoH, electronic records, innovation, Lord Darzi, Mike Cross, Our Future, Our NHS

Live webcast: Reduce your IT costs through Infrastructure Optimisation

Posted on 12 October 2007 at 12:00 by NHS Resource Centre

Jointly presented by Microsoft and IT partners, Eurodata, this session focuses on Infrastructure Optimisation (IO) in the NHS. Read more...

Tags: EA, Eurodata, infrastructure optimisation, IO, Richard Lane, savings, Webcast

Getting the best deals: what you need to know about resellers

Posted on 26 October 2007 at 13:35 by NHS Resource Centre

In the second of his columns about the latest enterprise agreement to be signed between Microsoft and the NHS, Brian Painting outlines how and why reseller arrangements have changed; and how to get the best deal on software that falls outside the NHS EA. Read more...

Tags: benefits, Brian Painting, column, Computacenter, enterprise agreement, NHS EA, Open licence, resellers, Select licence, software, Trustmarque, Trustmarque Solutions

On the pathway to 18 weeks: Dudley cuts waiting times with Ardentia’s Pathway Manager

Posted on 26 October 2007 at 13:14 by NHS Resource Centre

In this video case study, senior managers at Dudley Group of Hospitals trust talk about how important it is for their organisation to meet the government’s 18 week waiting time target, and how Ardentia’s Pathway Manager has put them on course to meet it well ahead of the 2008 deadline. Read more...

Tags: Ardentia, BI, business intelligence, data, Dudley Group of Hospitals trust, GBTV, GP, Pathway Manager, patient pathway, Payment by Results, PbR, video

Business Intelligence: demonstrated

Posted on 26 October 2007 at 13:00 by NHS Resource Centre

NHS organisations have a growing need for good, real time information to help them meet targets and financial imperatives and to help them improve their service to patients. Read more...

Tags: BI, Business Intelligence, data, demo, Nick Umney, PAS, PbR, scorecard

Sidewinder on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

Posted on 19 October 2007 at 15:23 by NHS Resource Centre

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has had supply-chain professionals salivating for some time – and now healthcare analysts are spotting clever applications for this technology. But what exactly is RFID? And what are its security applications? In the latest of his regular columns, Davey Winder investigates… Read more...

Tags: column, davey winder, patient tracking, rfid, security

Health 2.0 and the future of the NHS

Posted on 19 October 2007 at 14:50 by NHS Resource Centre

The government has embarked on another “ten year” review of the NHS, which has proved remarkably resistant to such initiatives since it was founded in 1947. Read more...

Tags: column, HealthSpace, Jon Hoeksma, patient choice, PHR

Shoot ‘em up: and other ways to decommission your hard drives

Posted on 17 October 2007 at 17:15 by NHS Resource Centre

One unlucky NHS trust hit the headlines recently when one of its old hard drives turned up on eBay with sensitive patient details still on it. Security journalist Davey Winder explains the background to the story - and how to stop it happening to you. Read more...

Tags: best practice, bt, davey winder, drive decommissioning, security, security research centre, sidewinder

Inside e-health on how health records are getting personal

Posted on 12 October 2007 at 20:24 by NHS Resource Centre

In his regular column, technology journalist Jon Hoeksma muses on the question of who owns a health record – and why some recent developments are making this a pressing question. Read more...

Tags: choice, column, electronic healthcare records, EPR, GP, HealthSpace, HealthVault, information, Jon Hoeksma, NHS CRS, NPfIT, patients, PHR

Everything at your fingertips: Microsoft Outlook 2007

Posted on 11 October 2007 at 13:56 by NHS Resource Centre

Microsoft Outlook 2007 does email, but it’s really a sophisticated tool for organising information of all kinds. Busy NHS workers should find it a godsend; particularly because a host of new features are designed to boost productivity. Read more...

Tags: calendar, communication, email, IM, inbox, Mobile, mobility, Nick Umney, Office 2007, OneNote, Outlook, Project, RSS, SharePoint, tasks, to-do bar

Microsoft moves into personal health records with HealthVault

Posted on 11 October 2007 at 13:49 by NHS Resource Centre

Microsoft’s new, personal health record initiative is only available in the US. But it provides some intriguing pointers for the future of personal health information and search. Read more...

Tags: choose and book, HealthSpace, HealthVault, News, personal health records, PHR, search, summary care records

Liverpool Primary Care Trust makes business intelligent

Posted on 11 October 2007 at 12:10 by NHS Resource Centre

In this video case study, managers from Liverpool Primary Care Trust talk about the benefits of a web-based business intelligence (BI) solution built around Microsoft technologies by Ardentia. NetMetrics allows managers to see information about key targets and financial indicators on dashboards that they can tailor to their own requirements. Read more...

Tags: Ardentia, BI, business intelligence, data, GBTV, GP, integration, Liverpool Primary Care Trust, NetMetrics, Payment by Results, PCT, practice based commissioning, SQL Server, video

Healthcare IT on the hustings

Posted on 05 October 2007 at 16:21 by NHS Resource Centre

As Parliament returns, IT journalist Jon Hoeksma reflects on what the party conferences had to say about NHS IT – and what Lord Darzi’s review of the NHS may mean for its national IT programme. Read more...

Tags: government, Jon hoeksma, Local Ownership programme, Lord Darzi, news, NHS CFH, NPfIT, parliament, patient, report, review

Face-block: is social networking just too social for the NHS?

Posted on 05 October 2007 at 16:10 by NHS Resource Centre

Social networking sites are the latest Internet phenomenon to have employers worried and attract headline-making bans at work. But is blocking staff access really the best way forward? Or are there alternatives that the NHS might live with? Read more...

Tags: facebook, Internet, online, security, social networking

Our new GP columnist calls for IT consultancy and not just quick fixes for practices

Posted on 05 October 2007 at 16:07 by NHS Resource Centre

In the first of a new series of columns, Cheshire GP Dr Neil Paul outlines the results of a survey that he recently conducted about IT concerns among local practices. Read more...

Tags: column, consultancy, desktop, Dr Neil Paul, EMIS, GP, HUP, PCT, practice, server, training

GP Systems of Choice: a new deal for primary care IT

Posted on 03 October 2007 at 19:23 by NHS Resource Centre

We have just seen a significant event in the most highly computerised sector of the NHS, with the completion of a new deal guaranteeing GP practices a choice of IT system. Read more...

Tags: choicem EPR, EMIS, GP, GPSOC, health select committee report, interoperability, LSP, NHS CFH, NUG, PCO, primary care

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