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April 2008 articles (16)

Sidewinder on hacking humans

Posted on 28 April 2008 at 23:40 by NHS Resource Centre

Although security experts often focus on technology, many attempts to steal confidential data focus on hacking humans. Davey Winder investigates the seedy world of social engineering… Read more...

Tags: data, Davey Winder, GPs, hacking, identity theft, phishing, security, Sidewinder, social engineering, symantec

New moves on data security

Posted on 28 April 2008 at 22:58 by NHS Resource Centre

Information Commissioner Richard Thomas has backed proposals by cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O’Donnell, to hold senior Whitehall mandarins and NHS chief executives personally responsible if their department or trust loses or mishandles personal information. Read more...

Tags: assistm UKCHIP, data security, IG, information governance, Richard Thomas, Sir Gus O’Donnell

Cross Talk on saving lives and causing deaths

Posted on 28 April 2008 at 22:44 by NHS Resource Centre

There is no doubt that healthcare IT is helping to save lives every day; but sooner or later it is going to get the blame for killing someone who might have lived. Read more...

Tags: common user interface, CUI, EPRs, HC2008, healthcare informatics, Kit Lewis, Maureen Baker, Mike Cross, safety

HC 2008: News from Harrogate

Posted on 28 April 2008 at 22:28 by NHS Resource Centre

This year’s Healthcare Computing conference was a relatively subdued affair, with the outcome of the NHS informatics review and appointments to key positions put off until the summer. Read more...

Tags: ASCC, asset management, Bert van hoof, clinical safety, DH, Gordon Hextall, HC2008, Healthvault, informatics, infrastructure, infrastructure optimisation, IO, Jon Hoeksma, Lord Darzi, Mark Ferrar, Matthew Swindells, Maureen Baker, NHS CFH, Nick Hunn, NMM, NPfit, SAM, sir bruce keogh, strategy, telemedicine

Inside e-health on wanted: someone to lead NHS IT

Posted on 17 April 2008 at 18:35 by NHS Resource Centre

The Healthcare Computing 2008 conference takes place next week. One of the keynote speakers was to have been the Department of Health’s acting chief information officer, Matthew Swindells. Read more...

Tags: Ara Darzi, David Cameron, DH, EPR, Inside E-health, Jeremy Thorp, Jon Hoeksma, Matthew Swindells, NHS CFH, NPfIT, patient records

Single Sign On in the NHS

Posted on 17 April 2008 at 10:26 by Richard Lane

Richard Lane, healthcare technical strategist – Microsoft UK Read more...

Tags: ESSO, infrastructure optimisation, IO, richard lane, Single Sign On, SSO

Welcome to Virtual Earth: a new dimension in Business Intelligence

Posted on 10 April 2008 at 15:05 by NHS Resource Centre

If you’ve used the Starbucks website to find your nearest coffee, you’ve already used Microsoft’s Virtual Earth technology. The same system is being evaluated by several NHS trusts that see mapping and spatial data as a route to efficient healthcare. Paul Curran reports. Read more...

Tags: business intelligence, data, KPI, Live Search Maps, NHS Choices, Tim Gee, Vikas Arora, Virtual Earth, Waggener Edstrom

HC2008: integration made Simpl

Posted on 16 April 2008 at 11:02 by NHS Resource Centre

NHS IT managers and vendors will be in Harrogate next week for Healthcare Computing 2008. One of the Microsoft partners at the show will be Simpl - a company that is working on health and integration solutions with Microsoft Corporation that has also won a key contract from NHS Wales. Read more...

Tags: codeplex, GP, HC2008, health connection engine, IHE, integration, interoperability, Simpl, web service, XDS-b

Sidewinder on unsocial networking

Posted on 14 April 2008 at 15:49 by NHS Resource Centre

Social networking is all the rage right now, but what are the security implications of poking* in the workplace? Davey Winder investigates… Read more...

Tags: Davey Winder, facebook, HR, policy, productivity, security, Sidewinder, social networks, trojans, widget

Life on Marsland says “know your assets!”

Posted on 10 April 2008 at 14:48 by NHS Resource Centre

In his latest column, former chief information officer Iain Marsland reflects that good IT managers will have a fine, if slightly obsessive, interest in assets. The tough part is getting everybody else to share it... Read more...

Tags: asset management, cio, essex strategic health authority, fast, licensing, Marsland

The era of patient free choice arrives

Posted on 10 April 2008 at 12:00 by NHS Resource Centre

Patient free choice began on 1 April, but despite the official launch full blown implementation of a policy likely to have far-reaching impact on the NHS remains some way off. Jon Hoeksma and Fiona Barr report. Read more...

Tags: choose and book, Dr Foster intelligence, free choice, GP, Health National Patient Choice Survey, patients

Inside e-health uncovers some mixed messages about information governance

Posted on 10 April 2008 at 11:40 by NHS Resource Centre

The government promised tough new rules to secure personal data in the aftermath of last November’s HMRC debacle. But now it is sending out mixed messages about information governance – and risking public trust in the process, argues Jon Hoeksma. Read more...

Tags: e-health, electronic records, HMRC, information governance, jon hoeksma, security

Sign up to NHSmail plus free training and discounted offers on the NHS Resource Centre

Posted on 07 April 2008 at 13:31 by NHS Resource Centre

One free email and directory service for the NHS, e-learning, discounted software and much more! Read more...

Tags: Cyber cafe. discounted software, elearning, Microsoft Offers, NHSmail, online training, RCN Congress, SMS

More on webmail from the consulting room

Posted on 04 April 2008 at 18:38 by NHS Resource Centre

Dr Neil Paul has a look at the promised benefits of NHSmail’s move to Exchange 2007. He’s impressed by the features of the Outlook Web Access client; but still finds himself wondering about the best mobile device for general practice. Read more...

Tags: BNF, Dr Neil Paul, EMIS, Exchange 2007, GP, IMAP, MAPILab, NHsmail, outlook web access, OWA, Smartphone, Sperry Software

Seek and you will find: Microsoft’s CUI programme launches NHS Medical Search tools

Posted on 04 April 2008 at 18:20 by NHS Resource Centre

NHS staff have many sources of information at their disposal, but they can be hard to find and difficult to access in busy offices and wards. Microsoft’s Common User Interface programme has been addressing the problem through its NHS Medical Search project. Read more...

Tags: BNF, Carl Nolan, common user interface, CUI, CUI tools, EA, enterprise agreement, National Library, NHS CFH, NHS Medical Search, NLH, Office 2007, Office research pane, royal pharmaceutical society of great britain, SharePoint, Vista

Rapid dispatch: how electronic discharge forms have improved care in Swindon

Posted on 04 April 2008 at 18:00 by NHS Resource Centre

Creating electronic discharge forms can be a quick win for NHS trusts that want to improve their working practices and deliver better patient care, as Swindon and Marlborough trust has discovered. Read more...

Tags: care pathways, e-discharge, electronic discharge summaries, GP, Great Western Hospital, InfoPath 2007, lean processes, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2007, nursing staff, patient pathways, PCT, pharmacists, process, Swindon, Swindon and Marlborough, target, WCI Group

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