IT for government and public sector

Catering staff given access to electronic health records

The Irish Independent says that catering staff were able to access confidential patient information held on a £54m health service record system which is being rolled out across Ireland.The ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Too many destructive vested interests in Govt IT?

In response to the article on this blog by Rob Bowley, on whether Agile can help solve Government IT problems, Matt writes:"Not if what I've seen of 'agile' approaches in government IT is anything ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Conservatives move towards a Freedom of Data Act?

Today the Conservatives are launching their 'Tech Manifesto'. It contains a bold new commitment: a 'Right to Government Data', says Stephen Shakespeare who is chairman of the Network for the ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Could Agile help solve the government's IT problems?

Computer Weekly published today a call by the British Medical Association to halt what it calls a rushed roll-out of an imperfect Care Records Service. Responding to the article, Rob Bowley has ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

BMA and CfH argue it out over NPfIT Summary Care Records

Would Summary Care Records have saved the life of Penny Campbell?[Comments 5 and 6 after this article correct some of the impressions I have given. The SCR is equipped to take GP notes] It's rare ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Government IT should be "part of the election debate"

David Chassels is a former Director of 3i Corporate Finance in Scotland, and a former partner at BDO. He's now CEO of software house Procession, based at Chesham, Buckinghamshire. He writes to me ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Put a financial value on protecting data says ICO

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 ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Priorities for Government CIOs in 2010 and beyond - Gartner

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 ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

What the next Government should do about the NPfIT

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 ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Germany shelves £1.5bn e-health card scheme

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 ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Flawed Chinook Fadec updated only after fatal Mull crash

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 ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Tories repeat commitment to review Chinook crash findings

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 ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Chinook Mk2: we publish new evidence of computer problems

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 ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

NHS IT scheme to be scaled back

The Chancellor Alistair Darling and the Treasury are to scale back spending on the NHS's National Programme for IT. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

iSoft and Lorenzo - the good news keeps on coming?

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 ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Whitehall dismisses Tory review report of NHS IT

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 ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Cerner's latest results: UK and US highlights

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 ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

NPfIT critics and the Damian McBride smear culture

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 ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Report of public accounts MPs on NHS IT - main findings

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 ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Chinook ZD576 - a rare, perhaps unique, photo

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 ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Some of the good and bad at HC2008 - a summing up

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, ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Police to be allowed searches of national database of NHS patient records

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 ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

ID Cards and the NPfIT – nobody is “responsible”

Cabinet ministers come and go, as do prime ministers, and heads of departments. So who will actually be responsible for ID cards or the NHS's National Programme for IT? Nobody. Thank you to Brian ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Fujitsu may quit NHS National Programme for IT

The board of an NHS trust has learned of a "significant" risk of ­Fujitsu ending its £900m contract to supply and implement hospital systems across southern England as part of the National Programme for IT. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Computer Weekly interviews heads of £5bn Defence Information Infrastructure project

In this blog entry the two leaders of the £5bn Defence Information Infrastructure contract [DII], who represent the Ministry of Defence and the Atlas consortium of suppliers, led by services ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Richard Granger's departure may jeopardise NHS IT programme

Richard Granger's departure from Connecting for Health may jeopardise the stability and success of the politically driven NHS National Programme for IT. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Letter from 79 doctors, nurses and secretaries over go-live of NHS IT system

This is a letter signed by 79 doctors, nurses and secretaries at Milton Keynes General Hospital regarding the implementation of a Care Records Service under the NHS's National Programme for IT ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Cybersecurity czar signals government cooperation at RSA Conference

Cybersecurity chief, Greg Garcia told RSA Conference attendees that government, enterprises and academia need to work together to fight growing Internet threats. Continue Reading

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• Marcia Savage, Features Editor, Information Security Magazine

Terrorists may target financial sites

The U.S. government is warning of an al-Qaida call for a cyberattack against online stock trading and banking Web sites Continue Reading

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• SearchSecurity.com Staff

Questions that need to be answered on NHS IT plan

Four years ago the government announced to a grateful NHS a national IT programme that would become the world's largest civil computer scheme. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Should the government define spyware?

Who's best qualified to define what is and isn't spyware -- your congressman or your online user community? Security experts say no entity can do it alone. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

There's no government like no government

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• Niall McKay, Contributing Writer

NHS IT plan risky but will not fail, says OGC

The £2.3bn national programme to modernise health service IT systems is "risky and ambitious" but it has sufficient safeguards in... Continue Reading

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• Nick Huber

Court blocks former ICL solicitor's Pathway claim

Fujitsu has won a court ruling to stop a former solicitor for the company pursuing allegations about the government's disastrous... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Government's Gateway guidelines delay NHS IT contract

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• Chris Mugan