Public Sector IT
Recent Posts
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Put a financial value on protecting data says ICO
04 Mar 2010 -
Priorities for Government CIOs in 2010 and beyond - Gartner
04 Mar 2010 -
What the next Government should do about the NPfIT
03 Mar 2010
The Information Commissioner's Office is asking businesses and organisations to put a financial value on protecting personal information.Yesterday the ICO, at the Data Protection Officer Conference ...
Andrea Di Maio, vice president at Gartner, says that by 2012 "one in five government processes will rely on "crowdsourced" data". He says CIOs will need to handle a shift from providing ...
Tom Brooks, who spoke about NHS IT on last night's BBC R4 File on 4 broadcast, has let me have his suggestions on what the next government should do about the NPfIT. Brooks, a much-respected figure ...
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Germany shelves £1.5bn e-health card scheme
22 Jan 2010 -
Flawed Chinook Fadec updated only after fatal Mull crash
14 Jan 2010 -
Tories repeat commitment to review Chinook crash findings
13 Jan 2010 -
Chinook Mk2: we publish new evidence of computer problems
05 Jan 2010 -
iSoft and Lorenzo - the good news keeps on coming?
01 Sep 2009 -
Whitehall dismisses Tory review report of NHS IT
10 Aug 2009 -
Cerner's latest results: UK and US highlights
30 Jul 2009
Germany has shelved the introduction of the country's e-health card system, which has so far cost £1.5bn, according to the British Medical Journal.The journal says the decision to put the ...
Faulty safety-critical "Fadec" software that was installed on the Chinook Mk2 helicopter had secret modifications after the notorious fatal crash on the Mull of Kintyre, Computer Weekly has ...
The House of Commons held a short debate yesterday on the notorious, fatal crash of Chinook ZD576 on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994. During the debate, the Shadow Defence Minister, Gerald ...
The lead news item on BBC radio and TV news for much of yesterday referred to computer-related evidence about the Chinook Mk2, of the type that crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994. The ...
Below are excerpts from the iSoft's annual report, which is published today [1 September 2009] in Australia. IBA Health in Australia acquired iSoft and has now adopted its name. The annual report ...
The Tories are due today to publish the results of a review of the NPfIT, led by Dr Glyn Hayes, former chairman of the British Computer Society's Health Informatics Forum. Dr Hayes, chairman of the ...
In a Cerner conference call after an announcement of the company's s second-quarter results, there was much discussion about "meaningful use" - a phrase which can unlock money from Congress for ...
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NPfIT critics and the Damian McBride smear culture
16 Apr 2009 -
Report of public accounts MPs on NHS IT - main findings
27 Jan 2009 -
Chinook ZD576 - a rare, perhaps unique, photo
02 Jun 2008 -
Some of the good and bad at HC2008 - a summing up
23 Apr 2008 -
Police to be allowed searches of national database of NHS patient records
28 Feb 2008
The culture of smear goes much deeper than the Damian McBride affair. Critics of the National Programme for IT [NPfIT] in the NHS have been the subject of smears in debates in the House of Commons ...
Today's report of the Public Accounts Committee on the £12.7bn National Programme for IT says it is not yet providing value for money - though the project has existed for nearly seven years. The ...
This photo of Chinook ZD576 is the copyright of Robin Crorie who has given kind permission for it to be used by Computer Weekly in connection with the Campaign for Justice to clear the names of the ...
Comment: My highly subjective overview of some of the good and bad at HC2008, the annual Healthcare Computing conference in Harrogate.. The bad: Some of the speeches were, as in previous years, ...
News analysis It went largely unnoticed but the minister for the NHS’s National Programme for IT, Ben Bradshaw, has confirmed that data on a central database of millions of confidential health ...