Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has selected security software provider Wave Systems' Safend Data Protection Suite, to help it to comply with the Data Protection Act (DPA) 1998, the Information Governance Toolkit and ...
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When a West Midlands NHS Trust needed to upgrade HVAC systems at a busy health centre, an integrated heating solution from Armstrong speeded up and simplified the refurbishment project. The high efficiency equipment installed at the site ...
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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust has issued an IT services tender worth between £50m and £80m over five years. In a notice on the Official Journal of the European Union, the trust said that it wants to ...
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The Duke of York visited the Churchill Hospital in Oxford during December to commemorate the opening of a new building that includes an integrated Cancer and Haematology Centre and provides a base for many NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research ...
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Customers of integrator and reseller 2e2 have told Computing that they are "considering their options", but what are their options, and what are the legal implications if 2e2 was to go under or be bought out; can a customer walk away from ...
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After much time spent negotiating with investors who failed to find a rescue plan for integrator and reseller 2e2, the firm entered administration, and now its customers are looking to jump ship. Hundreds of jobs on the line as 2e2 ...
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EHI, ehi.co.uk the UK's preeminent independent health IT news, research, and events firm, announced today that it has formed a partnership with leading US health technology research firm KLAS Enterprises. The new partnership between EHI ...
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Researchers at the University of Southampton are undertaking a new stage of a study aimed at improving the health and mobility of those suffering from the common complaint of ‘walking on marbles’ associated with Rheumatoid ...
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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has declared that "the NHS cannot be the last man standing as the rest of the economy embraces the technology revolution". Expert predicts government NHS data-sharing plans spell end for patient privacy NHS ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)claims to be about helping organisations to do the right thing,yet it punishes organisations that report breaches.But does this make sense?Is this really a good policy? The best-known case is the ...
Gathering numbers of NHS trusts are investing in the Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS), making it one of the more successful examples of NHS IT. Increasing storage costs could drive the use of the cloud. PACS is a ...
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Five local authorities have saved£31m by moving to shared services arrangements,according to a report. The study,commissioned by public sector lobby group the Local Government Association,and produced by consultancy Drummond ...
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has selected security management firm Wave Systems' Safend Encryptor to encrypt sensitive data and manage and recover data securely. Further reading NHS Trust fined £175,000 for 'entirely avoidable' ...
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Almost three quarters (70%) of experience IT pros claim to have considered a move to the NHS, according to a survey by IT healthcare recruiter max20. Questioning 130 IT professionals, that work outside of the NHS, 46% said ‘career ...
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Stoke-on-Trent City Council has been fined 120,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for breaching the Data Protection Act. A solicitor that worked within the organisation was found to have sent 11 emails containing ...
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