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January 2008 articles (14)

Virtual Reality: virtualisation and the NHS

Posted on 25 January 2008 at 18:22 by NHS Resource Centre

Virtualisation is a word that has started to creep into common usage. But what does it mean and why might the NHS be interested? Nick Saalfeld offers a quick introduction. Read more...

Tags: Butler Group, Calista Technologies, Citrix, data, Dynamic IT, interoperability, IT Infrastructure library, ITL, Mark Clark, Richard Lane, server farms, softgrid, virtualisation, Vista

Life on Marsland takes stock of the New Year

Posted on 25 January 2008 at 12:25 by NHS Resource Centre

In the second of his columns for the NHS Resource Centre, former NHS chief information officer Iain Marsland looks at the priorities and concerns of NHS IT leads as they head into 2008. Read more...

Tags: care record service, compliance, CRS, devolution, GP Systems of choice, Iain Marsland, IM&T, Life on Marsland, local ownership, Lord Darzi, NLOP, NPfIT

Podcast with Mark Bower, Microsoft's NHS Knowledge Worker Tools Lead

Posted on 24 January 2008 at 17:56 by NHS Resource Centre

January 15th 2008 saw the latest in Microsoft’s annual series of NHS CIO Summits; with over 150 healthcare IT professionals gathered under one roof. Read more...

Tags: CIO Summit, common user interface, CUI, Knowledge Worker Tools, KPI, KWT, Mark Bower

Podcast: Dr Bill Crounse speaks from the NHS CIO Summit

Posted on 17 January 2008 at 12:44 by NHS Resource Centre

January 15th 2008 saw the latest in Microsoft’s annual series of NHS CIO Summits; with over 150 healthcare IT professionals gathered under one roof. Read more...

Tags: Bill Crounse, common user interface, CUI, NHS CIO Summit, podcast

Knowledge Worker Tools: update from the NHS CIO Summit

Posted on 17 January 2008 at 10:38 by NHS Resource Centre

Thanks to everyone who attended the CIO Summit today. Everyone I spoke to provided positive feedback. The real challenge was squeezing a summary into a 15 minute slot! If you missed the session I have made the slides available here: Read more...

Tags: common user interface, CUI, knowledge worker tools, KWT, Mark Bower, office 2007

Tooling up: how the CUI programme is creating tools for NHS workers and IT managers

Posted on 11 January 2008 at 17:49 by NHS Resource Centre

Microsoft’s Enterprise Agreement with the NHS includes a commitment to the Common User Interface programme. Read more...

Tags: BI, BNF, business intelligence, clinicians, collaboration, common user interface, CUI, EA, guidance, IM&T, knowledge worker tools, Mark Bower, Medical Research Services, MOSS, Neil Slater, NHS CFH, NHS CIO IT Summit, OCS, Office, Office Communications server, unified communications, Windows desktop

Podcast from the Health Business Awards

Posted on 11 January 2008 at 14:53 by NHS Resource Centre

Sidewinder on how not to get too click-happy

Posted on 24 January 2008 at 16:43 by NHS Resource Centre

Expert journalist Davey Winder reviews the latest evidence on the security threat posed by link-clicking and says: just don’t do it. Read more...

Tags: Davey Winder, email, link clicking, MessageLabs, security, spam, storm botnet, Trojan

Come on up: A view of Microsoft’s NHS chief information officers’ summit

Posted on 19 January 2008 at 14:06 by NHS Resource Centre

Microsoft held its annual summit for NHS chief information officers at its UK headquarters in Reading on 15 January 2008. Lyn Whitfield reports on some of the key themes of the day. Read more...

Tags: CIO Summit presentations, common user interface, CUI, Dr Bill Crounse, Dr Mark Ferrar, EA, infrastructure optimisation, licensing, Mark Bower, Matthew Swindells, Neil Slater, NHS CIO Summit, NIMM

Inside e-health on (not) getting results out of the box

Posted on 19 January 2008 at 13:33 by NHS Resource Centre

IT journalist Jon Hoeksma wonders why healthcare systems can’t be bought out of the box: and whether primary care might have something to teach the hospital sector. Read more...

Tags: ASSC, E-Health Insider, GP, GPSoC, Inside E-Health, Jon Hoeksma, licences, localisation, NHS IT programme, primary care, procurement

The Long and the short of it on how Windows Server 2008 will improve security

Posted on 19 January 2008 at 13:27 by NHS Resource Centre

Securing data is the hot topic across the public sector. In the latest of his regular columns, Gareth Hall explains how Windows Server 2008 will address security issues. Read more...

Tags: active directory, AD, bitocker, column, domain controller, firewall, Gareth Hall, longhorn, NAP, network acecss protection, RODC, SDL, security, server, virualisation, Windows Server 2008

Shift patterns: One trust’s experience of e-rostering

Posted on 11 January 2008 at 17:25 by NHS Resource Centre

A new report from NHS Employers makes the case for electronic rostering and recommends systems and approaches. Daloni Carlisle reports on the experience of a trust in Birmingham that is using a system developed by SMART health on Microsoft technology. Read more...

Tags: Daloni Carlisle, electronic rostering, electronic staff management system, nurse, SMART, SMART health, University Hospital Birmingham trust

Happy New Year: From the consulting room

Posted on 11 January 2008 at 17:05 by NHS Resource Centre

GP columnist Neil Paul looks back – less than fondly – at 2007, and puts together a wish-list for primary care computing in 2008. Read more...

Tags: GP, IT management, primary care IT, primary care professionals

Shift patterns: the benefits of e-rostering

Posted on 11 January 2008 at 17:04 by NHS Resource Centre

Audit bodies have been arguing for years that the NHS needs better and cheaper ways to manage its staff. A new report from NHS Employers argues that electronic rostering can cut costs, while delivering a better match of skills to demand and greater flexibility for ward staff. Read more...

Tags: Daloni Carlisle, electronic rostering, e-rostering, ESR, flexible working, nurse, payroll, SMART Health

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