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June 2008 articles (17)

Spotting key innovations in health

Posted on 24 June 2008 at 17:25 by NHS Resource Centre

Jerry Fishenden is National Technology Officer for Microsoft in the UK. Jerry attended last week's NHS Confederation conference and delivered an inspiring session on technology and innovation before 250 healthcare CEOs. Read more...

Tags: innovation, Jerry Fishenden, NHS Confederation, NTO, policy, technology

June 2008 NHS Resource Centre Newsletter

Posted on 26 June 2008 at 10:11 by NHS Resource Centre

If you haven't already received it, read the June 2008 newsletter and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss out on the latest news, incentives and competitions! Read more...

Tags: june, newsletter, subscribe

A few niggles with electronic documents come from the consulting room

Posted on 25 June 2008 at 16:20 by NHS Resource Centre

Our GP columnist, Neil Paul, is a big fan of technology. Sometimes, however, he’s tempted to go back to paper. Then, he’d like to know when software companies are planning to improve their IT. Read more...

Tags: document management, Dr Neil Paul, email, from the consulting room, GP, software

Conference report: discussing disruptive technology

Posted on 25 June 2008 at 15:46 by NHS Resource Centre

In the run up to its annual conference in Manchester, the NHS Confederation produced a series of reports for discussion. One looked for the “disruptive technologies” that are likely to impact on the NHS over the next ten to 15 years. Read more...

Tags: HealthVault, Jerry Fishenden, NHS Choices, NHS Confederation, Patient Opinion, Paul Hodgkin, web 2.0

Conference report: from the NHS Confederation in Manchester

Posted on 25 June 2008 at 11:35 by NHS Resource Centre

The NHS Confederation, the organisation that represents NHS organisations, held its 2008 conference in Manchester from 18-20 June 2008. Read more...

Tags: Disruptive Innovation, Mark Britnell, Next Stage Review, NHS Confederation, NHS Plan, personalisation, policy, polyclinics

Read all about it: and Take Back Your Life!

Posted on 20 June 2008 at 18:17 by NHS Resource Centre

A new book explains how you can use the tools in Microsoft Outlook to manage your to-do lists, calendars and email and, in the process, Take Back Your Life. In an exclusive interview, author Sally McGhee explains more... Read more...

Tags: author, calendar, MS Press, NHS offers, Office 2007, Outlook 2007, productivity, Sally McGhee, Take Back Your Life, task list, work-life balance

Cross Talk on the power of information

Posted on 20 June 2008 at 17:41 by NHS Resource Centre

In the latest of his regular columns, journalist Mike Cross examines the use of clinical performance information by online consumers in web communities, and concludes that despite the fears of professionals, it’s no bad thing. Read more...

Tags: cross talk, data, electronic data, Mike Cross, The Talking Cure, web 2.0, Wikipedia, wikis

On the Quest for a better identity management solution

Posted on 09 June 2008 at 15:07 by NHS Resource Centre

Microsoft partner Quest Software has helped Rotherham Primary Care Trust to become one of the first NHS organisations in the country to automatically synchronise Active Directory with the new Electronic Staff Record. Read more...

Tags: Active Directory, enterprise resource planning, ERP, Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007, identity management, Quest Software, Recovery Manager, Rotherham PCT, security

News: Kaiser Permanente announces link up with Microsoft HealthVault

Posted on 20 June 2008 at 17:31 by NHS Resource Centre

Microsoft recently held an industry event in Seattle to unveil further developments in its HealthVault Platform. Key among them was a link-up with the US’ largest not for profit health maintenance organisation, Kaiser Permanente - which often held up as a model for the NHS in commissioning, integrating services and using IT. Read more...

Tags: digital-signature, electronic medical record, HealthVault, Kaiser Permanente, My Health Manager, NHS Confederation

Learn all about it: news about e-learning for NHS staff

Posted on 06 June 2008 at 18:44 by NHS Resource Centre

E-learning has much to offer the NHS. The Microsoft NHS Resource Centre has offered e-learning courses in Microsoft applications since it was launched over a year ago. Read more...

Tags: EITS, e-learning, essential IT skills programme, IT Academies, Mark Treleaven, microsoft certifications, Sally Whittle, South Tyneside NHS Trust, Terry Killer

All shook up: The NHS Confederation looks for disruptive innovations

Posted on 18 June 2008 at 18:17 by NHS Resource Centre

The NHS Confederation holds its annual conference in Manchester this week. One of its strands will discuss where change is likely to come from over the next decade. Attention will focus on a new report on disruptive innovation, produced with support from Microsoft. Read more...

Tags: Bill Crounse, choice, Delivering the Future Today, Disruptive Innovation, HealthVault, NHS Confederation, Nigel Edwards, telemedicine

From the consulting room goes mobile (or not)

Posted on 17 June 2008 at 17:16 by NHS Resource Centre

Cheshire GP Neil Paul would like some IT support when he is out on home visits. Unfortunately, a good, working solution has yet to reach him. Although there are rumours that social services have one... Read more...

Tags: 3G, Dr Neil Paul, EMIS, From the consulting room, GP, IMT Directed Enhanced Service, mobile, PDAs, social services, VPN

Sidewinder on the stolen hospital equipment scandal

Posted on 13 June 2008 at 15:27 by NHS Resource Centre

With millions of pounds worth of medical equipment being stolen from NHS trusts every year, Davey Winder wonders if technology might help to stem the flow... Read more...

Tags: Davey Winder, security, sidewinder

Life on Marsland on pathology - the nursery of NHS IT

Posted on 13 June 2008 at 14:56 by NHS Resource Centre

History often has a lot to teach us. In the latest of his regular columns, Iain Marsland looks back at the history of IT in pathology and considers some of the challenges it is facing today. Many of them, he argues, will be familiar to anyone working in healthcare IT. Read more...

Tags: Carter report, CIO, Iain Marsland, MUMPS, pathology, Phoenix laboratory system

On the record: the NHS Electronic Staff Record project

Posted on 13 June 2008 at 13:27 by NHS Resource Centre

The systems being provided by the National Programme for IT in the NHS are not the only national, healthcare IT systems around. Another huge project, to create an integrated HR and payroll system for the NHS in England and Wales, has just been completed. Read more...

Tags: Active Directory, AD, e-learning, electronic staff record, ESR, Gateway five, HR, McKesson, NLMS, payroll, Quest software, Rotherham PCT

Inside Track: Mark Treleaven opens his new column from the patient safety congress 2008

Posted on 06 June 2008 at 18:51 by NHS Resource Centre

In the first of a series of regular columns, Mark Treleaven, Microsoft’s UK healthcare industry marketing manager, reflects on two days at a major patient safety congress in London. Read more...

Tags: BI, business intelligence, HealthVault, Inside Track, Mark Treleaven, patient safety, St Mary’s Hospital in Portsmouth

Inside e-health: and then there were two

Posted on 06 June 2008 at 18:30 by NHS Resource Centre

The possible departure of Fujitsu from the NHS IT programme in the South of England was widely rumoured, but the abruptness of the firm’s exit still proved a shock. Jon Hoeksma argues that it also leaves trusts facing an uncertain digital future. Read more...

Tags: 18-weeks, ASCC, BT, care records service, CRS, CSC, Fujitsu, Inside e-heakth, isoft, Jon Hoeksma, lsp, NPfIT, PACS

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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 ...
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Interesting Group. Is it possible to include in the list of standard methods - Structured Systems ...
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