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September 2008 articles (15)

Delivering Darzi: Microsoft’s NHS Summit 2008

Posted on 26 September 2008 at 11:00 by NHS Resource Centre

At Microsoft’s annual NHS summit in Reading recently, delegates were impatient to see IT being used to support Lord Darzi’s ten year vision for the health service, but wanted to know whether it would be delivered at national, regional or local level. Read more...

Tags: amalga, darzi, events, national programme for It, nhs annual summit, world class commissioning

Only connect: Microsoft’s Connected Health Framework

Posted on 24 September 2008 at 17:17 by NHS Resource Centre

The end of big-bang IT projects in healthcare is dead. But what is going to take their place? To help chart the future, Microsoft has created the Connected Health Framework Architecture and Design Blueprint. Nick Saalfeld finds out more. Read more...

Tags: CFHB, Connected Health Framework, service-oriented IT

Presentations from Microsoft's Annual NHS Summit 2008

Posted on 23 September 2008 at 16:15 by NHS Resource Centre

Microsoft held its Annual NHS Summit on 18 September 2008, attended by NHS business and IT decision makers across the UK. Here you will find all of the presentations from the event. Read more...

Tags: Annual NHS Summit 2008, CEO

Inside e-health on a life without borders

Posted on 23 September 2008 at 13:26 by NHS Resource Centre

The European Union is creating a single market in healthcare. The impact will be uncertain and the IT challenges immense, says Jon Hoeksma. Read more...

Tags: cross-border healthcare, NHS CEO Summit 2008, patients, Smart open services

Life on Marsland assesses the case for shared services

Posted on 23 September 2008 at 11:48 by NHS Resource Centre

Over the past decade, some trusts and primary care organisations have moved their IT planning and support to shared services organisations. Iain Marsland argues there are still many arguments in favour of this approach. But the tide may be starting to turn against it. Read more...

Tags: Health Informatics Services, IM&T, NPfIT, outsourcing, shared services

Five priorities, from the consulting room

Posted on 22 September 2008 at 10:51 by NHS Resource Centre

Getting the IT working, improving telecommunications, sorting out information transfers between primary and secondary care and improving the skills of IT workers and NHS staff. There’s a big agenda to tackle in Cheshire, says Neil Paul. Read more...

Tags: access management, email, EMIS Web, GP, PCT, training

Leveraging the spine at Microsoft’s Security Summit

Posted on 22 September 2008 at 10:18 by NHS Resource Centre

Some of the infrastructure being created to give NHS staff access to new national services can also help trusts open up their data securely – especially if they use other solutions alongside it. Ian Shandling, solution specialist for identity and access at Microsoft UK, explains what’s possible to journalist Stephen Pritchard. Read more...

Tags: authentication, IAG, identity and access management, ILM, Mobile Device Management, security, smart cards, Spine project

How to avoid the front-pages of the tabloids: the IAG at Microsoft’s security summit

Posted on 22 September 2008 at 09:40 by NHS Resource Centre

Data security is at the top of the to-do lists of most NHS IT managers, following a spate of stories about lost CDs, laptops and USB sticks. Trusts are looking to deploy secure access solutions that enable staff to use their systems without compromising privacy or security. Read more...

Tags: data, Essex Rivers, IAG, Improving Working Life, secure access, security

Cross Talk goes over the border (twice)

Posted on 18 September 2008 at 13:01 by NHS Resource Centre

In his regular column, Mike Cross looks at how the different healthcare IT programmes in England, Scotland and Wales have approached the development of electronic health records, and argues that the three systems should be more willing to learn from each other. Read more...

Tags: Cross Talk, devolution, EHR, Emergency Care Record, health informatics, NHs Summary Care Record

The vision thing: at Microsoft’s annual NHS summit

Posted on 11 September 2008 at 15:59 by NHS Resource Centre

NHS South Central has emphasised prevention and the need to make patients “partners” in their care. Chris Evennett, its deputy chief executive and director of strategy and reform, will be talking about its vision at Microsoft’s annual NHS summit. Read more...

Tags: annual nhs summitt, chris evennett. darzi report, high quality care for all, nhs south central, reform, strategy

Gwyn Thomas, director of Informing Healthcare

Posted on 11 September 2008 at 11:59 by NHS Resource Centre

Informing Healthcare, the organisation responsible for NHS IT in Wales, has taken a very different approach to NHS Connecting for Health, its counterpart in England. Director Gwyn Thomas talks to Lyn Whitfield about progress to date. Read more...

Tags: gwyn thomas, healthcare IT, informing healthcare, nhs wales

Green IT: managing to do more with less

Posted on 08 September 2008 at 14:52 by NHS Resource Centre

IT managers may not be used to thinking of themselves as eco-warriors. But government strategies and NHS carbon reduction targets mean they need to start taking green issues on board. Andrew Donoghue reports. Read more...

Tags: climate change, climate savers computer initiative, data centres, environment, green grid, green it, greening government ict, healthcare it, virtualisation

Sidewinder on a matter of principle

Posted on 04 September 2008 at 11:49 by NHS Resource Centre

The basic principles of information security are enshrined in what has become known as the CIA Triad – confidentiality, integrity and availability. Davey Winder wonders whether they should be bolstered by some new principles; inspired by an ancient Greek. Read more...

Tags: data management, data protection, davey winder, information governance, security, sidewinder; information security

Living data day: Informing Healthcare’s research labs

Posted on 03 September 2008 at 10:05 by NHS Resource Centre

Earlier this summer, Informing Healthcare, the organisation responsible for healthcare IT in Wales, opened new research labs at Swansea University. Lyn Whitfield paid them a visit. Read more...

Tags: healthcare IT, informing healthcare, nhs wales

Data Security Top 10 - a must have in these days of data breaches

Posted on 02 September 2008 at 16:46 by NHS Resource Centre

Last year, HM Revenue and Customs hit the headlines when it lost the personal data of 25 million child benefit claimants on two CDs that went missing in the post. Read more...

Tags: data security, top tips

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