August 2008 articles (22)
Tales of data breaches continue to tumble out of the public sector. Yet England is not the only country to suffer them. Data breaches happen throughout Europe and in the US as well; and individuals are starting to look to their courts for redress. Jon Hoeksma considers the implications. Read more...
A Met Office service that warns COPD patients that cold weather is on the way has won the backing of the British Lung Foundation - and proved that it does reduce hospital admissions. Lyn Whitfield reports. Read more...
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IT has a major role to play in tackling global warming. Yet it also contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental problems. The NHS, like other public bodies, is starting to wake up to the issues. In the first of a series of features on green IT for the NHS Resource Centre, Andrew Donoghue reports. Read more...
NHSmail, the online email service for NHS staff, is migrating to Exchange Server 2007 and training on how to get the best out of the new and improved features will be live on the NHS Resource Centre from Friday, 29th August 2008. Read more...
You may have seen an earlier article regarding the availability for elearning (end user training) for sharepoint. Im pleased to say that this has now been formally released: SharePoint Server 2007 Training, built on the Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit, is designed for server administrators to install on an Office SharePoint Server site to help end-users learn about Office SharePoint Server Read more...
Business Intelligence is not just about financial stats and figures. In Wandsworth Teaching Primary Care Trust in south-west London, Business Intelligence tools from Microsoft have been used to get a clearer picture of how vaccination and immunisation programmes are doing – potentially saving lives. Mark Gould reports. Read more...
Once, business was in the driving seat of IT innovation. Now, home users are leading the way. And the NHS is struggling to keep up, says GP Neil Paul. Read more...
Websites that let patients rate their hospitals and even their doctors have started to spring up. Mike Cross wonders if this is a good thing. Read more...
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust called in Microsoft when it wanted to transform its use of information. Now, it is deploying some of the company’s newest Business Intelligence tools to deliver information to front-line staff in ways that make sense to them. Daloni Carlisle reports. Read more...
The latest version of Good Medical Practice for General Practitioners, the official guide to being a good GP, emphasises the need for family doctors to embrace new technology. Fiona Barr reports. Read more...
In his regular column, Microsoft’s Mark Treleaven discusses the impact that Microsoft’s Health Vault and other personal healthcare record platforms could have on the NHS. Read more...
The Department of Health has announced the names of the people who will become the first chief information officer for health and the head of the agency that runs the National Programme for IT in the NHS. Read more...
A hidden gem of the NHS Enterprise agreement is the Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack Read more...
World class commissioning is about “adding years to life and life to years” by targeting health interventions and treatment on those who will benefit most. Commissioners will need good information to do it, as Mark Gould discovers Read more...
Enterprise Resource Planning is well established in businesses and some European health systems; but it is relatively new to the NHS. That is changing as the health service gets to grips with world class commissioning and the new outcomes and quality agenda. And that is creating a new interest in solutions such as Microsoft Dynamics AX. Paul Bray reports. Read more...
Fear, uncertainty and doubt beset our lives thanks to global terrorism, the credit crunch and knife crime (or newspaper reports of the same). But, says Davey Winder, it’s when the IT security FUD hits the fan that things start to get really messy… Read more...
Just to make certain that everyone knows what I'm about to talk about. Microsoft released the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), the successor to Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) a little while back. MDT is a tool which can be used to build and deploy workstations and servers in a managed, consistent and automatic way which can dramatically save on the amount of time and effort required to carry out the same task without it. Read more...
Tags: applications, BDD, CUI, deployment, Gadget, Kingsley Starling, KMS, MDT, Medical Research, NHS MDT 2008, server, Vista, Windows
GPs who balance PCs on chairs. Hospital staff who immerse themselves in their laptops rather than the patient in front of them. Read more...