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Data protection breached by five NHS trusts
News Five NHS trusts — Royal Free Hampstead, Chelsea and Westminster, Hampshire Partnership, Surrey and Sussex, and Epsom and St Helier — have signed formal undertakings to process personal data legally in future, the Information Commissioner's Office...
[July 16, 2009, 9:40]
NHS trusts outsource financials and procurement IT
News A consortium of NHS trusts and Strategic Health Authorities in the north-east of England has outsourced its financials and procurement IT in a contract worth £16.45m over 10 years. Called the North East Patches Shared System Group (NEP), the...
[December 24, 2007, 9:15]
NHS trusts face independent data-handling audits
News NHS trusts are being urged to introduce independent auditors to make sure they are keeping to guidelines for their handling of patient data. Such a development would mark a shift away from current arrangements that see trusts responsible for...
[July 8, 2008, 9:03]
Mental-health trusts embrace e-records
News Six out of London's 10 mental-health trusts are now using computerised patient-record systems. NPfIT local service provider BT has now installed systems in the North East London; West London; South West London and St George's; East London and the...
[October 3, 2007, 13:06]
Work-at-Home Mom Trusts McAfee to Protect Her Family
White Papers Lori Hoffman, a married 36-year-old stay-at-home mom in Tampa, Florida, works part time from home in the insurance field. Lori Hoffman is like many PC users these days: Her home system runs personal applications but, increasingly, it also contains...
[June 16, 2007, 1:00]
Barclays Stockbrokers Limited Trusts eGain
White Papers Barclays Stockbrokers Limited (BSL) is the United Kingdom's biggest retail stockbroker. It is part of Barclays Private Clients & International, and offers execution-only, advisory and discretionary investment services.
[July 11, 2006, 0:00]
Barclays PLC Trusts eGain
White Papers Ranked third among UK-based banks, Barclays PLC offers a comprehensive array of consumer and corporate financial services, with offices in more than 60 countries around the world. In 1998, faced with a rapidly expanding customer base and the need...
[July 11, 2006, 0:00]
Fastest Growing Online Relationship Service Trusts eGain for Scalable Multichannel Customer Service to Millions of Members
White Papers With over four million users, eHarmony is the Internet's fastest growing relationship service. With explosive growth in its customer base and increasing competition came the demand for differentiated customer service.
[July 11, 2006, 0:00]
Amazon Honor System trusts surfers to pay up
News Dubbed the Amazon Honor System, the new payment method will allow Web sites to solicit small donations from visitors or charge for content on a pay-per-view basis. The system will tie into Amazon's one-click payment feature and Amazon's customer...
[February 6, 2001, 16:25]
IP Australia Trusts Agileware to Host the IP Access Website Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux
White Papers IP Australia approached Agileware to provide hosting services for the ipaccess.gov.au website (now decommissioned). The website was a customised content management system, search engine and news aggregator, developed by Synop and using the...
[April 25, 2007, 1:00]
Korea Financial Telecommunications & Clearing Institute Trusts Network Appliance High-Availability SAN for Industry-Critical Certification Services
White Papers The world-class payment systems of the Korea Financial Telecommunications & Clearing Institute (KFTC) manage over 20 million transactions each day. The company wanted to ensure 24x7 online access and deliver performance for peak loads.
[July 20, 2007, 1:00]
Let's not take this out of perspective
Talkback The existing PAS software, which has been sucessfully deployed to countless trusts and hospitals over the last three or so years, is in far wider use, still works, and its integration with the national spine provides many benefits over where the...
[December 20, 2008, 2:53]
NHS misses data-encryption target
News NHS trusts will not have completed encrypting patients' personal data held on their computers until later this year. A number of health trusts are expected to be months late in meeting a target to encrypt all data on non-secure machines by 31 March...
[June 25, 2008, 9:01]
New NHS system to SMS patient appointments
News Clients could be trusts, surgeries, any independent unit that arranges appointments. London-based primary care trusts (PCTs), it was announced on Thursday. An innovative NHS appointment text messaging service has been rolled out to six
[December 16, 2005, 8:00]
Email experts search for 'less trusting' protocol
News The protocol that has defined email for more than two decades may have a fatal flaw: it trusts you. In other words, SMTP trusts too much -- and that has spam foes, security mavens and even an original architect of today's email system agitating for...
[August 1, 2003, 16:15]
NHS completes rollout of digital X-ray tech
News The NHS has completed a project to rollout digital X-ray and scanning technology to health trusts across England as part of the £12.4bn national NHS IT programme. More than 473 million images have been stored using the technology, which cuts the...
[December 28, 2007, 8:18]
NHS computer systems take a sickie
News Some 80 NHS trusts across England have been hit by a "serious interruption" to their computer systems. In the meantime the 72 Primary Care and eight Acute Trusts affected - all of which have had new administrative computer systems installed by CSC...
[August 1, 2006, 9:55]
NHS rolls out mammoth email system
News From Tuesday, staff in 10 NHS trusts will have access to NHSmail, a new email and directory service being rolled out across the entire organisation to replace the 7,000 different systems currently in use.
[December 10, 2002, 15:33]
Outsourcing contract to save NHS £5.5m
News NHS trusts in the North West of England have streamlined their document and print management services. As part of the contract, Xerox is providing core office functions to eight NHS trusts, such as copying, faxing, printing, scanning, storage and...
[September 17, 2007, 9:06]
VoIP pilot to cut NHS phone bills
News Connecting their individual voice networks to the NHS N3 network could help hospital trusts across the UK cut their phone bills. London trusts are being offered free connections to the N3 Local Gateway Service — allowing them to call each other for...
[December 6, 2007, 15:08]
