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April 2009 articles (18)


Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

Posted on 28 April 2009 at 15:17 by Nick Umney

Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 provides an integrated solution for managing your time and information, connecting across boundaries, and remaining in control of the information that reaches you. Office Outlook 2007 delivers innovations you can use to quickly search your communications, organise your work, and better share your information with others—all from one place. Read more...

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Case study: Mid Yorkshire Hospitals improves communications with OCS

Posted on 28 April 2009 at 14:37 by NHS Resource Centre

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been working with unified communications specialists POSTcti on a trial of Microsoft Office Communications Server. The benefits have been so impressive that it is planning to roll it out to 1,000 of its managers, doctors and their support staff. Lyn Whitfield reports. Read more...

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NHS Resource Centre: news round - up

Posted on 28 April 2009 at 14:13 by NHS Resource Centre

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...

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Considering a move to Windows Vista?

Posted on 23 April 2009 at 12:23 by Richard Lane

There are numerous articles on the NHS Resource Centre relating to Windows Vista which will assist your move Read more...

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Stakeholder relationship management: Reaching out to staff and stakeholders their way

Posted on 21 April 2009 at 14:26 by NHS Resource Centre

Stakeholder Relationship Management (SRM) takes tools that have been used by big businesses for many years and applies them to communication in healthcare. As Paul Bray finds out, this means that you should be able to deal with your staff and stakeholders as individuals, while automating many of your communications with them. Read more...

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Why Vista? It’s perfect for life on the move

Posted on 21 April 2009 at 13:28 by NHS Resource Centre

The Windows Vista operating system has many benefits. In the latest of our series of articles on how it can help the health service, Nick Saalfeld and his team explain how it can help your laptop and you to work more efficiently and stop worrying about theft.  Read more...

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Life on Marsland says it’s time to mind the quality

Posted on 21 April 2009 at 13:21 by NHS Resource Centre

The NHS is suddenly determined to improve quality. But what does this mean? And where is the information to do it going to come from? wonders Iain Marsland. Read more...

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NHS Resource Centre: news round - up

Posted on 21 April 2009 at 10:56 by NHS Resource Centre

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...

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HIMSS09: news from the windy city

Posted on 15 April 2009 at 14:38 by NHS Resource Centre

There had been fears that companies and experts would stay away from this year’s Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Chicago. But in the end, numbers were just 5 per cent down on last year’s event in sunny Florida. The US government’s massive injection of funds into electronic health records and other technologies helped. But there were plenty of other interesting presentations and launches. Neil Versel reports. Read more...

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Save Money: Remove the cost of antivirus protection from your NHS budget!

Posted on 15 April 2009 at 11:34 by Richard Lane

Improve your current level of protection and remove the cost Read more...

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Accessible, turnkey technology services for the NHS

Posted on 15 April 2009 at 09:13 by NHS Resource Centre

NHS IT teams are under pressure. They need to cut costs and demonstrate value at a local level, while still delivering on national objectives. Help is at hand from a raft of highly accessible services, available from Microsoft to bolster the resources of any IT team. Gary Flood investigates. Read more...

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Resilience from the consulting room

Posted on 14 April 2009 at 14:14 by NHS Resource Centre

GPs can’t work without IT any more. So why do they have to put up with poor infrastructure, crashing systems and applications, and a lack of data on what is going on, asks Neil Paul. Read more...

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NHS Resource Centre: news round - up

Posted on 14 April 2009 at 11:59 by NHS Resource Centre

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...

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News: Hospital gives patients access to records using Microsoft technologies

Posted on 09 April 2009 at 10:06 by NHS Resource Centre

One of America’s most prestigious hospitals has introduced an electronic personal health record for its patients, using Microsoft technologies. Read more...

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Cross Talk on the database state

Posted on 07 April 2009 at 09:29 by NHS Resource Centre

Last time regular Microsoft columnist Mike Cross found himself in his local hospital, he was impressed by its digital imaging technology. Back in the Whittington’s A&E, he is impressed by its access to national records – and unimpressed by a think tank report worried about the information stored in them. Read more...

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NHS Resource Centre: news round - up

Posted on 07 April 2009 at 09:19 by NHS Resource Centre

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...

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The Dear Jean diaries get to grips with hospital IT

Posted on 07 April 2009 at 09:14 by NHS Resource Centre

In the third of her emails to her old friend Jean, BB gets to grips with the electronic patient record system at her new hospital – or not. Read more...

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NHS Resource Centre: news round - up

Posted on 03 April 2009 at 11:37 by NHS Resource Centre

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...

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