Microsoft: Failing IT pros should be struck off
News Microsoft UK's National Technology Officer Jerry Fishenden has called for a single professional body with powers to strike off IT professionals in the same way the General Medical Council can discipline doctors.
[May 23, 2007, 16:53]
Stockholm County Council Creates Solid Foundation for Improving Patient Care and Optimizes IT Resources
White Papers Stockholm County Council provides healthcare services to 1.9 million citizens in the county of Stockholm in Sweden, which represents 20% of the country's population. The challenge was to develop a single, longitudinal electronic healthcare record...
[July 20, 2007, 1:00]
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine (OHCM™)
Downloads With its characteristic combination of incisive guidance, wit, a lucid style, and memorable epigrams, it continues to be the leading reference of clinical medicine.Key FeaturesMuch loved both for its top-quality clinical information, and for the...
[June 27, 2005, 8:00]
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine (OHCM™)
Downloads With its characteristic combination of incisive guidance, wit, a lucid style, and memorable epigrams, it continues to be the leading reference of clinical medicine.Key FeaturesMuch loved both for its top-quality clinical information, and for the...
[June 27, 2005, 8:00]
Linux helps British scientists decode human DNA
News The Sanger Centre, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the British Medical Research Council, has been competing with US company Celera in the race to map human DNA. It is hoped that it will enable medical experts to combat many genetically inherited...
[June 16, 2000, 10:23]
Doctors may be fined for losing data
News The General Medical Council (GMC), which registers doctors in the UK, said that it had issued guidance for doctors on patient confidentiality, which includes data-protection guidance. Given the recent spate of data breaches at NHS trusts, perhaps...
[November 16, 2007, 10:41]
Businesses back call for naked PCs
News Stuart Aitken, chief information officer at the Medical Research Council, said: "Do we really want the burden of building every machine, getting all the drivers, etc? Rob Neil, head of ICT and customer service at Ashford Borough Council, agreed but...
[September 28, 2007, 14:13]
Cisco High-Performance Computing InfiniBand and Ethernet Networks and the IBM System Cluster 1350 Lowers Costs, Improves Systems and Halves ROI Period
White Papers Cineca is a consortium of 31 universities plus the CNR (the National Research Council) and the Ministry of University and Research. The solution provides 10-gigabit InfiniBand connectivity with support for more than half a petabyte of data and will...
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
WiFi scares set to mushroom
Blog Take this article, which quotes council leaders as saying they may be unable to roll out wireless LANs because of the concerns of users. As the council leaders said, a report from a respected organisation - perhaps the Department of Health - is...
[May 30, 2007, 12:48]
Travel Ireland - illustrated guide and maps. Incl: Dublin, Cork, Galway and more. FREE General Info
Downloads Use the guide as postcards to show places you visited.Table of Contents Republic of Ireland: General | Geography | Climate | Counties | Name | Religion | History | Respect | Demographics | Politics | Parliament | Architecture | Culture | Church...
[May 24, 2007, 8:00]
Record industry accuses BT of aiding pirates
Talkback Next we will have the British Medical Council contacting BTOW and asking them to limit how many hours we surf a day! Hear Hear Good old BT It is not their place to monitor and police the internet, and p2p file sharing.BPI are having a joke arent they?
[September 4, 2003, 13:25]
Experts highlight six key technologies to watch
News The Council for Science and Technology (CST) has named six technologies that should be in line for additional government funding. The six technologies are: carbon capture and storage; disaster mitigation technology; low carbon electricity...
[December 5, 2007, 14:52]
Gassy batteries pump up the power
News Canadian government researchers at the Alberta Research Council (ARC) announced this week that they have built a working prototype of a fuel cell that uses hydrogen gas as a fuel but can be adapted to run on a variety of sources such as natural...
[November 14, 2002, 7:53]
Encryption foils Internet child porn prosecutions
Talkback And as part of police budget comes out of Council Tax, I feel certain householders would prefer their local police concentrated on burglars, car thieves and muggers, rather than politically correct crime.
[February 22, 2005, 3:26]
Burn: NPfIT has 'failed so far'
Blog Glyn Evans, assistant to the chief executive on transformation, Birmingham City Council said: Government IT projects were also criticised by Medix, an internet service for doctors that provides access to medical information.
[June 1, 2007, 17:13]
Elderly to benefit from 'fuzzy logic' research
News The project has been funded by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. These sensors can monitor people's movements, capture sleep patterns or measure pulse and respiration, meaning they can identify medical emergencies or...
[January 4, 2008, 8:25]
