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November 2007 articles (21)

The long and the short of it on the “solid foundation” of Windows Server 2008

Posted on 29 November 2007 at 10:41 by NHS Resource Centre

In the second of his new columns, Gareth Hall starts to delve into the four areas of improvement for Windows Server 2008, the server product code named, Longhorn. Read more...

Tags: column, Gareth Hall, Powershell, Release Candidate, security, server, server core, solid foundation, virtualisation, web, Windows Server 2008

Ship shape and Bristol fashion: UBHT makes further investments in Microsoft technologies

Posted on 08 November 2007 at 18:45 by NHS Resource Centre

United Bristol Hospital Trust wants to become world class and sees IT as a means of meeting its objectives. The trust is investing in Microsoft communication and collaboration technologies to make it easier for staff to find and contact each other and to share information. Read more...

Tags: collaboration, communication, foundation trust, HR Web, intranet, MOSS, NPfIT, Office Communications server, PACS, patient safety, records, RFID, SharePoint, SQL Server, UBHT, unified communications, wirelss

Unity is strength: how unified communications technologies can bring NHS staff together

Posted on 08 November 2007 at 18:10 by NHS Resource Centre

Microsoft’s vision for unified communications is to give people the ability to access all the information and messages they need to receive from any device they choose to use, from wherever they happen to be. This could deliver huge benefits to the NHS; making it easier for people to contact each other and to make key decisions. Read more...

Tags: collaboration, communication, email, Exchange, IM, mobile, Nick Umney, Office Communications server, Outlook, RSS, SharePoint, UBHT, Unified Communications

Cross Talk on broken bones and an improving healthcare service

Posted on 29 November 2007 at 10:00 by NHS Resource Centre

Mike Cross takes a trip to his local hospital for the first time in a decade and finds it improved beyond recognition. As an “NHS IT nerd", he’s pleased to see digital technologies underpinning the transformation. Read more...

Tags: column, digital, healthcare informatics, Mike Cross, North London's Whittington, PACS

Resellers' view: the truth about Software Asset Management

Posted on 23 November 2007 at 23:19 by NHS Resource Centre

NHS Connecting for Health has asked the resellers appointed to manage the distribution of licences under its latest Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft to conduct a piece of software asset management work. Read more...

Tags: Bytes Technology, Centennial, Computacenter, desktops, EA, enterprise agreement, Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003, NHS CFH, resellers, SAM, SAMpartners, software asset management, Trustmarque

Managing your software assets: the benefits this brings to your NHS organisation

Posted on 23 November 2007 at 22:45 by NHS Resource Centre

Tags: Amanda Abel, Bytes Discovery Tool, Bytes Technology, Computacenter, desktops, EA, Enterprise Agreement, governance, licences, licensing, NHS CFH, resellers, SAM, Sam Partners, software asset management, Trustmarque solutions

End user training on MOSS and WSS

Posted on 20 November 2007 at 13:48 by Nick Umney

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Tags: e-learning, MOSS, training

Security breach should “set alarm bells ringing” at all public bodies

Posted on 23 November 2007 at 10:40 by NHS Resource Centre

The information commissioner has said that the security lapse at HMRC that allowed the personal details of 25 million people to go missing in the post should set alarm bells ringing in every public sector organisation. Read more...

Tags: Alastair Darling, data, DoH, HMRC, news, NHS Care Records Service, Richard Thomas, Security

The secret life of an enterprise agreement on all you need to know about the Home User and Employee Purchase programmes

Posted on 16 November 2007 at 19:17 by NHS Resource Centre

In his latest column, Brian Painting outlines some of the benefits for NHS staff that come with Microsoft’s latest enterprise agreement with the health service – and how to get the most out of the Home User Programme and Employee Purchase Programme. Read more...

Tags: Brian Painting, EA, EPP, HUP, Licensing

Podcast: Key interviews from the BT E-Health Insider Awards

Posted on 16 November 2007 at 17:47 by NHS Resource Centre

From the consulting room: a rant about email

Posted on 20 November 2007 at 14:21 by NHS Resource Centre

Cheshire GP Dr Neil Paul uses his latest column to let off steam about email, attachments and version control – and to call for better training in how to manage all three. Read more...

Tags: Ashfields primary care centre, attachment, cheshire, column, Dr Neil Paul, email, Exchange, GP, NHSmail, Outlook, practice, spam, training

Draft Project Plan for MOSS 2007

Posted on 20 November 2007 at 13:50 by Nick Umney

Considering a sharepoint project in your organisation? Checkout this handy project plan to help you get started and to highlight those all important tasks and milestones. Read more...

Tags: MOSS, Project

Sidewinder on summary care record security

Posted on 16 November 2007 at 01:00 by NHS Resource Centre

Bolton is at the forefront of NHS Connecting for Health’s summary care record early adopter programme. Security is a key consideration when it comes to giving both staff and patients access to the summaries being created for the first time. Read more...

Tags: BMA, Bolton PCT, column, data, Davey Winder, GP, Healthspace, NHS CFH, NHS Connecting for Health, patient, portal, security, Sidewinder, summary care records

Patient safety: a rallying call for good IT

Posted on 15 November 2007 at 18:37 by NHS Resource Centre

Many patient safety failures are, at root, information failures. Electronic patient records and other IT investments have a major role to play in improving systems, preventing problems and analysing trends. Read more...

Tags: care, Clostridium difficile, column, common User Interface, CUI, data, electronic records, European Commission, Jon hoeksma, MRSA, NHS CFH, patient safety, process, World Health Organisation

A poke from your process modelling friends: join the new community group

Posted on 09 November 2007 at 14:02 by NHS Resource Centre

A process modelling community group has been launched on the NHS Resource Centre site to help IT and information workers tasked with capturing healthcare processes and modelling the impact of strategic change. Read more...

Tags: 18 weeks, bpmn, business analyst, Dr Nick Gaunt, group, manager, Matt Oxley, NHS Institute, notation, patient pathways, Process Modelling Community Group, process models, scenario generator, simul8, TC Analyzer, TCA, visio

Mike Bainbridge is healthcare ICT champion of the year

Posted on 08 November 2007 at 17:33 by NHS Resource Centre

Dr Mike Bainbridge was announced as “healthcare ICT champion of the year” at the BT e-Health Insider awards this week. Read more...

Tags: awards, BT, CUI, Dr Mike Bainbridge, E-Health insider, GP, ICT champion, Intel, Mark Treleaven, MCA, NHS CFH, patient safety

Inside e-health on choice and consultation in the NHS

Posted on 07 November 2007 at 16:21 by NHS Resource Centre

In his latest column, IT journalist Jon Hoeksma reflects on how the NHS is struggling with choice, engagement and consultation – and how the imaginative use of some simple and widely available IT could help. Read more...

Tags: CHC, choice, choose and book, column, consultation, DoH, facebook, Jon Hoeksma, newsletter, online, patients, web 2.0, website, West Yorkshire Mental Health trust

From the consulting room on keeping stuff up to date

Posted on 02 November 2007 at 16:13 by NHS Resource Centre

In the second of his new columns, Cheshire GP Neil Paul reflects on the frustrations of patches and updates. Every device wants to update itself weekly it seems – often at the most inconvenient moments. Surely, he muses, there must be a better way... Read more...

Tags: Ashfields, column, consulting room, Dr Neil Paul, EMIS, ETP, patches, SMS, updates

Take it from the top: an interview with Neil Jordan

Posted on 02 November 2007 at 12:52 by NHS Resource Centre

Neil Jordan joined Microsoft seven years ago. For three years, he was the company’s head of healthcare in the UK, leading the team that signed the 2004 enterprise agreement with the NHS that also committed Microsoft to the £40 million Common User Interface programme. Read more...

Tags: Bristol, clinical, commoditisation, CUI, enterprise agreement, HealthSpace, HealthVault, information worker, interview, Neil Jordan, NHS EA, UBHT

Introducing Windows Server 2008, code name: Longhorn

Posted on 02 November 2007 at 12:34 by NHS Resource Centre

In the first of a new series of monthly columns, Gareth Hall introduces the NHS to the joys of Longhorn – or Microsoft Windows Server 2008 as it is now known. Read more...

Tags: Active Directory, column, gareth hall, GP, infrastructure, Longhorn, security, server, virtualisation, web services, Windows Server 2008

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