Three hundred children are being recruited for a clinical trial to establish whether or not specialist silk clothing really does help in the treatment of eczema. The £1m CLOTHES trial — Clothing for the relief of Eczema ...
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Research from data company EMC suggests that UK enterprises trust security and resilience of IT systems much less than their Chinese and US counterparts. The EMC Global IT Trust Curve survey, administered by independent market research ...
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The vast majority (82 per cent) of NHS Trust heads are expecting additional funding from the government in order to become paperless, and over half (60 per cent) expect Whitehall to foot the entire bill. The Secretary of State for Health, ...
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The ability to predict the future has long been the stuff of science fiction or, more often, pure fantasy, with hard science usually finding it difficult to rationalise there ever being a way to use technology to foretell what is to come. ...
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A new white paper published by research and analyst company Quocirca and sponsored by Nuance Communications highlights the need for businesses to adopt intelligent print management solutions and vigorously enforce print policies if they are ...
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Torbay Council has selected business intelligence (BI) vendor Logi Analytics to replace its BI system, enabling it to cut costs and improve functionality. The council's previous BI system was used to run a range of daily, weekly and ...
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Online business insurance broker Simply Business has selected Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise to replace Oracle Transactions to enable it to better respond to customer insight by analysing metrics and interactions from its website. ...
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The PGA European Tour has selected Xirrus' Wi-Fi to provide spectators with access to golfers' location, stream video content, and enable the PGA to understand more about its fans. Graham Gifford, ICT director at PGA European Tour, told ...
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NHS England has issued a tender worth between £200,000 and £2m to train 100,000 people in basic online skills, in its bid to boost health literacy. The plan comes under NHS England's commitment in 2013/14 and 2015/16 to reduce ...
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A report on 14 of the UK's hospital trusts with persistently high mortality rates has found that staff struggled to comprehend data to improve performances. Professor Sir Bruce Keogh was asked by the Secretary of State for Health, and ...
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Lotus F1 has announced a four-year partnership with IT services and solutions provider EMC that the team hopes will help lead it to the FIA Formula 1 World Championship. The deal will see EMC aid Lotus with more agile and cost-efficient ...
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NHS Wales expects to save £1m per year once it has gone live with document management solutions from software provider V1, as well as a range of e-trading solutions across the health service. Further reading Caldicott review: ...
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A number of local government administering authorities have created a framework for the provision of pension software solutions and issued a tender worth between £3m and £30m. The Official Journal of the European Union tender ...
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West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an external supplier for its ICT infrastructure improvement programme. The value of the contract is expected to be between £30m and £50m. The supplier chosen will be required ...
Today's launch of St Helens and Knowsley Informatics Service's medical record digitisation service should prove a welcome development for an NHS suffering space, staff and security problems in its ongoing battle with paper medical record ...
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