Microsoft NHS Resource Centre

You are viewing only a fraction of the content available to registered members of the community.

These are mainly contributed by Microsoft professionals. (Community content is private for registered people only)

These are mainly Microsoft professionals. (NHS staff are kept private)

March 2008 articles (18)

Cross Talk on 1998 and all that

Posted on 28 March 2008 at 18:47 by NHS Resource Centre

Mike Cross looks back at the Information for Health strategy and finds that it was, on the whole, a good thing. Read more...

Tags: column, EHR, electronic patient record, ERP, GP, health strategy, Mike cross, patient, smart cards, Wirral hospital Trust

Staying top of the league: Premier Support in Lancashire

Posted on 28 March 2008 at 18:42 by NHS Resource Centre

An increasing number of NHS trusts are taking up Microsoft Premier Support, a “managed support offering” that includes problem resolution, workshops and strategic planning services. Read more...

Tags: active directory, exchange, IM&T, infrastructure optimisation, Lancashire Care Foundation trust, Matt Nelson, mental health, Microsoft Premier Support, RAPs, WCI Group

Introducing Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008

Posted on 28 March 2008 at 18:26 by NHS Resource Centre

Microsoft has issued new versions of two of its key servers, and both have features that should interest the NHS. Read more...

Tags: Gareth Hall, Gartner, GP, information governance, infrastructure, managing servers, nick umney, RODC, security, server core, SQL Server 2008, virtualisation, WAN, windows server 2008

Plan for the future by optimising your IT infrastructure

Posted on 28 March 2008 at 11:57 by NHS Resource Centre

Microsoft recently put its Infrastructure Optimisation tool online. IT directors and managers have been emailed details of how to access and complete it. But is it worth doing? Graham Jarvis looks at one trust’s experience. Read more...

Tags: BDS Solutions, Blackpool Fylde and Wyre Hospitals Foundation trust, case study, Graham Jarvis, infrastructure, infrastructure optimisation, IT managers

When all else fails: make sure your data’s encrypted

Posted on 20 March 2008 at 20:57 by NHS Resource Centre

Spend and save card: the national programme’s annual benefits statement

Posted on 20 March 2008 at 19:20 by NHS Resource Centre

NHS Connecting for Health recently published the first ever benefits statement for the National Programme for IT in the NHS, setting out what the programme has cost to date, what it has saved and what it will achieve in the future. Read more...

Tags: cfh, conneting for health, doh, gp, gpsoc, national programme, nhs, nhs cfh, nlop, pacs, qmas, qof, sha

Sidewinder takes a look beyond passwords

Posted on 20 March 2008 at 16:18 by NHS Resource Centre

Inside e-health on one of the challenges of the century

Posted on 20 March 2008 at 15:48 by NHS Resource Centre

Health informatics has been described as one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. In his monthly column, Jon Hoeksma argues it will also be the foundation for further NHS reforms and job security for NHS executives. Read more...

Tags: bi, business intelligence, e-health insider, ehi, Informatics, Jon Hoeksma

NHS Roadshows: presentations from Cambridge

Posted on 20 March 2008 at 11:59 by NHS Resource Centre

Review all of the presentations from the event we held in Cambridge on 13 March 2008: Read more...

Tags: Bytes, cable and wireless, collaboration, EWA, IOKO, NHS CFH, NHS roadshows, NHSmail, NIMM, Trustmarque Solutions

NHS Roadshows: presentations from Leeds

Posted on 19 March 2008 at 17:23 by NHS Resource Centre

Review all of the presentations from the event we held in Leeds on 11 March 2008: Read more...

Tags: andy Savvides, ESR, EWA, IOKO, Leeds, Mark Ferrar, Mike Dolan, NHS CFH, NHS roadshows, NHSmail, NIMM, Rotherham Primary Care Trust, SMART, Trustmarque, unified communications

Life on Marsland: planning for the NHS care record part 2

Posted on 14 March 2008 at 18:58 by NHS Resource Centre

In his latest column, Iain Marsland reflects on some early electronic patient record system deployments in English hospitals - and the importance of taking clinical views into account. Read more...

Tags: care pathways, CareVision, data, deployment, electronic patient records, EPRs, Iain Marsland, NHS CRS, NPfIT, PAS, reporting

NHS Roadshows: presentations from Newcastle

Posted on 10 March 2008 at 17:46 by NHS Resource Centre

Review all of the presentations from the event we held in Newcastle on 6 March 2008: Read more...

Tags: arque Solutions, Bytes, cable and wireless, collaboration, D2i, Esteem, EWA, IOKO, Newcastle, NHS CFH, NHS roadshows, NHSmail, NIMM, SMART, South Tees Hospitals, Tim Gee, Trustmarque

NHS Roadshows: presentations from Manchester

Posted on 10 March 2008 at 17:29 by NHS Resource Centre

Review all of the presentations from the Manchester regional roadshow event: Read more...

Tags: 21C, BI, Bytes, cable and wireless, collaboration, D2i, EDRM, IOKO, NHS CFH, NHS roadshows, NHSmail, SCC, Tim Gee, Tower, WCI

NHS Roadshows: presentations from Birmingham

Posted on 10 March 2008 at 17:14 by NHS Resource Centre

Review all of the presentations from the event we held in Birmingham on 26 February 2008: Read more...

Tags: Birmingham, Bytes, cable and wireless, collaboration, Contemporary, D2i, eurodata, EWA, IOKO, NHS CFH, NHS roadshows, NHSmail, NIMM, Tim Gee, WCI

Microsoft Amalga: a route to real-time healthcare information

Posted on 08 March 2008 at 22:15 by NHS Resource Centre

In 2006, Microsoft bought a product called Azyxxi from Washington-based MedStar Health. It connects legacy data stores and allows the information in them to be re-presented to clinicians and managers in useful ways. Read more...

Tags: Amalga, Azyxxi, connectivty, data management, interoperability, Mark Hopkins, MedStar Health, patient pathway, patient records, SQL Server, waiting times

Inside e-health does America

Posted on 08 March 2008 at 21:55 by NHS Resource Centre

Jon Hoeksma has been to the HIMSS conference in Florida. He reports that for all its differences, the US healthcare system shares many of the same IT priorities as the NHS. It’s just that more firms are competing to meet them – and there’s much more interest in consumers. Read more...

Tags: Amalga, Azyxxi, connectivity, electronic patient records, EMPI, EMRs, HealthVault, HIMSS, IM&T, Neil Jordan, patient safety, personal health records, PHR, RFID, stephen Lieber

News from HIMSS, Florida

Posted on 08 March 2008 at 21:37 by NHS Resource Centre

Microsoft has rebranded its healthcare software suite at the giant Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) event in Orlando, Florida. Read more...

Tags: Amalga, Azyxxi. EPR, BT, HIMSS, Hospital 2000, MedStar Health, PACS, patient information, patient records, RIS, unified intelligence systems

From the consulting room on a project that’s working

Posted on 06 March 2008 at 09:54 by NHS Resource Centre

Dr Neil Paul has been involved in discussions about setting up a local, shared, computerised diabetes health record. Unusually, these are going well... Read more...

Tags: diabetes, Dr Neil Paul, EMIS, EPR, GP, health record, interoperability, patient records

« Previous
1
Next »

Newest public comments

By: Philip osuya
Very helpful article. There are so much features in Outlook 2007 that this article has alerted me. ...
By: Nicola Jones
This is a vital argument, which seemingly was not addressed in the recent reports. Some years ago, ...
By: Mark Ryan-Daly
Hi Neil I'm wondering how many NHS organisations are rolling out Office 2007? The Trust I'm ...
By: Mark Ryan-Daly
Hi Neil I'm wondering how many NHS organisations are rolling out Office 2007? The Trust I'm ...
By: AUDRIA ABEL
The new impoved version is much better, the access has much improved: The old version would log out ...

You just need your NHS email address - it only takes a minute

Microsoft NHS Resource Centre - Articles