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September 2007 articles (14)

NHS Resource Centre September 2007 eNewsletter

Posted on 27 September 2007 at 18:54 by NHS Resource Centre

Find the September edition of the NHS Resource Centre e-newsletter and subscribe if you haven't already done so to receive the latest information on topics such as the NHS Enterprise Agreement, the Home User Programme, Vista deployment, CUI deliverables, competitions, tips and tricks and the latest news in Microsoft healthcare. Read more...

Tags: newsletter, september, subscribe

Microsoft Groove helps to create a virtual ward at Eastern and Coastal Kent Primary Care Trust

Posted on 27 September 2007 at 15:09 by NHS Resource Centre

This video case study shows how Eastern and Coastal Kent Primary Care Trust’s intermediate care team used Microsoft Groove 2007 to create a “virtual ward” for elderly and vulnerable patients. This supports better care for people in their own homes, and helps to reduce unscheduled visits to hospital. Read more...

Tags: communication, demonstrator, East Kent, Groove, integration, video, virtual ward

Cross Talk on how we should all be healthcare specialists (but better informed ones than we are now…)

Posted on 27 September 2007 at 14:27 by NHS Resource Centre

Mike Cross argues that Sir Derek Wanless is right to want more information about healthcare and its effects: and that this information should be distributed as widely as possible. Read more...

Tags: Column, data, Derek Wanless, EHR, electronic record, information, king's fund, Mike Cross, report

Webcast recording: Managing your NHS desktop and Server infrastructure

Posted on 18 September 2007 at 12:32 by NHS Resource Centre

Jointly presented by Microsoft and Lynx Technology, this session gives an overview of how the Microsoft System Center Suite of products can help to streamline the configuration and management of your NHS Infrastructure. Read more...

Tags: Desktop management, Infrastructure, Lynx, Richard Lane, Webcast

Demonstrator shows Microsoft Groove in action at East Kent

Posted on 26 September 2007 at 17:32 by NHS Resource Centre

Microsoft’s UK healthcare team has built a PowerPoint demonstration to show how Microsoft Groove is helping to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and improve the care of elderly people in East Kent. Read more...

Tags: communication, D2i, demonstrator, East Kent, Groove, integration, video

Wanless says productivity is still a challenge for the NHS

Posted on 14 September 2007 at 18:18 by NHS Resource Centre

Former Treasury advisor Sir Derek Wanless wrote a major report on the future funding requirements of the NHS in 2002. With the help of the King’s Fund, he has been looking at whether the billions spent on the NHS since then have delivered better services and better health. Read more...

Tags: CT scanners, DoH, ICT, IT manager, King's Fund, modernisation, NHS Local Ownership Programme, NPfIT, Our future health secured, report, Sir Derek Wanless, spend

Microsoft NHS Partner Community event

Posted on 10 September 2007 at 10:52 by NHS Resource Centre

On 5 September we held a very successful Microsoft NHS partner community day with over 100 attendees. Read more...

Tags: community day, Mark Ferrar, NHS CFH, NHS EA, Partner

MPs call for clarity on electronic patient records in England

Posted on 21 September 2007 at 17:55 by NHS Resource Centre

The influential Commons’ health select committee has published its report on the future of electronic record systems in England. It backs the development of EPRs, but raises significant questions about the programme set up to deliver them and says more clarity is needed about its scope and timetable for delivery. Read more...

Tags: Commons health select committee, DCR systems, England, EPR, Jon Hoeksma, LSP, MP, NHS CFH, NPfIT, PAC, PAS, report, SCR

Help choose your ICT champion

Posted on 21 September 2007 at 17:28 by NHS Resource Centre

The e-Health-Insider web-portal is running its annual BT e-Health-Insider awards, and Microsoft has sponsored a new category to find the Healthcare ICT Champion of the Year. The award will be determined by readers’ votes. So don’t miss the chance to have your say on which of the six nominees should win… Read more...

Tags: Awards, e-Health-Insider, ICT Champion

Are my NHS Organisation’s PCs capable of running Windows Vista?

Posted on 19 September 2007 at 15:27 by Richard Lane

Sidewinder on VoIP security best practice

Posted on 21 September 2007 at 17:09 by NHS Resource Centre

With Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) for the NHS just around the corner, Davey Winder assesses the security implications of this latest communications tool. Read more...

Tags: Cable & Wireless, column, Davey Winder, hacker, IT Managers, Mitel, network, NHS CFH, O2, phone, SecureTest, security, VoIP

Inside e-health on EPRs and the Goldilocks question

Posted on 21 September 2007 at 15:42 by NHS Resource Centre

In the first of his regular columns, Jon Hoeksma asks who has been trying EPR projects - and which countries have managed to get them just right? Read more...

Tags: column, e-health insider, EPR, Jon Hoeksma, NHS Care Records, NHS IT programme, NHS Scotland, RHIO, SCR, Summary Care Record

A study in blue: welcome to Windows Vista

Posted on 04 September 2007 at 16:31 by NHS Resource Centre

Windows Vista is Microsoft’s latest operating system. It presents users with a very nice interface and some whizzy graphics. But the real work is going on in the background. Nick Saalfeld dons his deerstalker and goes sleuthing to find out more. Read more...

Tags: Enterprise Agreement, firewall, gadget, IE7, NHS EA, Nick Saalfield, operating system, search, system restore, Vista, Windows Media Centre, Windows Vista

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By: NHS Resource Centre
Sorry Jonathan, there was an error with the survey. I have posted a new article explaining how ...
By: Ted Yeoman
Just so correct ... the description of clinical engagement leading the type of configuration of the ...
By: Ted Yeoman
This leads me to think that Trusts (Acute and Primary Care) should be offered Trust SoC along the ...
By: Stuart Dixon
Interesting Group. Is it possible to include in the list of standard methods - Structured Systems ...
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Sounds good, but what about the hidden variables not mentioned. Key Management Services, AD Schema ...

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