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About 50,000 Clinicians Are Expected to Learn How to Code Over The Next Few Years
Sep 2, 2013About 50,000 clinicians are expected to learn how to code over the next few years, according to NHS England's director of patients and information, Tim Kelsey. Kelsey said that a new initiative called Code4Health will launch this autumn ...
Tags: Service
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GP Practices Could Be Investigated by The Information Commissioner's Office
Aug 6, 2013GP practices could be investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if they fail to warn patients that identifiable data will be extracted from their electronic health records to be used by the National Health Service (NHS) ...
Tags: GPs, EMIS Group software
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All NHS Trusts and Providers Must Use Patient NHS Numbers as The Primary Identifier
Jun 8, 2013The NHS has announced that, from 2014, all NHS Trusts and providers must use patient NHS numbers as the primary identifier. The move - which seems simple, but could save a huge amount of unnecessary paperwork - means medical records can ...
Tags: NHS Data, Computer Products, software
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NHS Trust Selects Safend Suite to Replace Free Mcafee Safeboot Solution
Apr 8, 2013Today'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 ...
Tags: technology, Data Digitisation
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NHS Foundation Trust Has Issued an IT Services Tender Worth
Feb 26, 2013Central 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 ...
Tags: IT service, ICT infrastructure, North West London NHS Foundation Trust
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The UK and India Are Expected to Strike a Deal to Become Trusted Partners
Feb 20, 2013The UK and India are expected to strike a deal to become trusted partners in the growing battle against cyber criminals and nation states, prime minister David Cameron has said. Reuters reports that the UK hopes that by setting up a joint ...
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Ross Anderson Has Criticised The Government's Latest Plans to Make NHS Medical Records
Jan 17, 2013Security guru Professor Ross Anderson has criticised the government's latest plans to make NHS medical records all-electronic, shared not just throughout the NHS, but with care homes and social services, too. Under plans unveiled ...
Tags: NHS medical, social service, medical records, Data-Sharing
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NHS Cannot Be The Last Man Standing as The Rest of The Economy Embraces The Revolution
Jan 17, 2013Health 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 ...
Tags: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, technology revolution, healthcare
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NHS Foundation Trust Has Selected Security Management Firm Wave Systems' Safend Encryptor
Dec 27, 2012Bolton 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' ...
Tags: Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, security management firm, data securely
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NHS Has Selected Security Management Firm Wave Systems' Safend Encryptor
Dec 13, 2012Bolton 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' ...
Tags: Bolton NHS, Mcafee, Safend, NHS Trust
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NHS Trust Is Looking for a Supplier or Suppliers for New IT Hardware
Nov 26, 2012The University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is looking for a supplier or suppliers for new IT hardware in an agreement worth between 50m euros and 100m euros. Acting as an agent for the Trust,group purchasing ...
Tags: Europe, NHS Trust, IT Hardware, NHS
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Royal Free Hospital Uses SAP's Business Objects Dashboarding Technology to Fathom Data
Nov 12, 2012The Royal Free Hospital has implemented SAP's Business Objects dashboarding technology to enable staff to fathom more efficiently its own workings. Will Smart, director of information management and technology at the Royal Free Hospital, ...
Tags: clinical services, academic health science system, dashboards, SAP
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Computing Challenged Smith on The Question of Fines Back in January 2012
Sep 21, 2012Deputy Information Commissioner David Smith has told Computing that,while he does not dispute the accuracy of figures to suggest a 1,000 per cent rise in UK public and private sector data breaches in the past five years,he is unsure ...
Tags: ICO, Computing, data breaches, NHS data
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To Describe The Aims of The CloudStore as Revolutionary Is No Understatement
Jul 31, 2012Denise McDonagh, director of the government's G-Cloud programme, talks to Computer Weekly about the implementation challenges of the programme and the routes being taken to break government's dependence on large outsourcers. To describe ...
Tags: Interview, G-Cloud programme, cloud frameworks, big legacy systems