Our regular GP columnist, Dr Neil Paul, has been trying out NHSmail. His diagnosis? There are a few things that are a pain. But overall, it’s pretty good. So good, he’ll be pushing his primary care trust to move to it. Read more...
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Some 350 people gathered at the Hilton on Park Lane Hotel on Monday night for the E-Health Insider Awards 2009 in association with BT, at which Microsoft sponsored the best use of ICT in patient and citizen involvement in healthcare category. Lyn Whitfield reports. Read more...
Symptometrics, a Keele University spin-out venture, is introducing a platform based on Microsoft Dynamics to simplify the way in which patients report their symptoms. With fewer forms, less opportunity to forget, and visual aids as well, diagnoses should be faster and more actionable. Sally Whittle finds out more. Read more...
Welcome to the Microsoft NHS Resource Centre’s seven day round up of the latest news from the NHS and the healthcare IT sector. Read more...
Digital inclusion champion Martha Lane Fox is trying to build a business case for ending the digital divide. Michael Cross is a big fan of the idea, but wonders if the former dot.com entrepreneur is going about it in the right way. Read more...
Technology will need to deliver innovation and much greater efficiency as organisations emerge from the recession with reduced budgets, according to Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer. Read more...
Windows 7’s support for ‘touch’ will allow healthcare professionals to communicate better with patients, according to Dr Bill Crounse, Microsoft senior director for worldwide health. He tells Paul Curran why the new operating system will help trigger changes in clinical practice. Read more...
The dangers of Web 2.0 in the workplace are well known, but have you thought about the threat that social networking sites can pose when your staff go home? Davey Winder has... Read more...
Welcome to the Microsoft NHS Resource Centre’s seven day round up of the latest news from the NHS and the healthcare IT sector: Read more...
Thursday saw me attending a Premier Workshop at Upton Park. The subject naturally turned in the margins to the aims and objectives of this group, and what potentially we could see it used for. Talking to the majority of NHS folk there, as the day before in Cambridge, I was struck by the need for a way to allow best practices to be shared. The case study is fine, and serves a purpose; events such as the one attended too, allow for certain ideas to be discussed. The NHS has Acute and PCT forums within London that allow for the airing of ideas. This site too can offer up an arena for debate. What it can really do however is provide a place where the discussion can get to the next level that the commonality of technology in place can support. Read more...
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Trust already uses a Microsoft network infrastructure to make information readily available wherever and whenever its employees need it. Read more...
For the past few months, I have been supporting a trust as it undertakes the procurement of an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) through the NHS Connecting For Health (NHS CFH) Additional Supply Capability and Capacity (ASCC) catalogue. Read more...
Trusts need all the help they can get from technology if they are to deliver on the Quality, Improvement, Productivity and Prevention agenda. Yet they will always face the challenges of safeguarding personal data and the increasing amount of harvested performance data. As Paul Curran discovers, advances in Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system provide some compelling ways to meet these demands. Read more...
Welcome to the Microsoft NHS Resource Centre’s seven day round up of the latest news from the NHS and the healthcare IT sector: Read more...
This is the first piece in a regular new column on the Resource Centre where I hope to address some of the issues with which I'm regularly tackled as I visit customers across London, as well as using it as a tool to highlight some of the fantastic work being undertaken in and around the capital. Read more...