The NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has selected IT services and solutions provider Mastek to develop an identity and access management service. The announcement comes as part of the NHS Spine re-procurement and ...
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The NHS has selected US developer Basho's open source database Riak to underpin its efforts to rebuild its Spine infrastructure. The new project, dubbed Spine2, will replace the existing infrastructure that was implemented as part of the ...
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A grand NHS patient record system that was intended to computerise every patient record - before being abandoned - has cost UK taxpayers £10bn so far. Furthermore, hundreds of millions of pounds more in costs are expected to emerge ...
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Security 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 ...
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The NHS is working with the US government to pioneer open-data strategies in the US public sector. This was the claim of Chris Vein, deputy US chief technology officer for government innovation – working in the executive office of ...
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Services giant CSC,which had a spectacular dispute with the government over its work on the NHS National Programme for IT(NPfIT),is on course to implement its first patient records system after a national agreement was reached earlier this ...
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The Department of Health has reached an agreement with supplier CSC over the Lorenzo clinical management and patient administration systems fiasco which, it says, will save it as much as £1bn. The agreement was formally reached on ...
The Department of Health has reached an agreement with supplier CSC over the Lorenzo clinical management and patient administration systems fiasco which,it says,will save it as much as£1bn. Further reading CSC and the NHS:Lorenzo ...
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The majority of hospitals are seeking electronic patient records outside the National Programme for IT,with three in five already selecting alternative systems,according to research from Computer Weekly. In a survey of 178 health ...
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