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White hack exposes risk posed by connected devices

An ethical hack by an IT security provider of a private health clinic’s IT system has highlighted the vulnerability of
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Davey Winder: securing the Internet of Medical Things

The Internet of Things is an exciting prospect for healthcare; but when everything from transfusion pumps to home testing kits
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Southern TrakCare trusts reschedule go-lives

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has put back its go-live date for its InterSystems TrakCare electronic patient record; as have
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Healthcare IT news in brief

This week’s healthcare IT round-up focuses on software deployments, ranging from the addition of electronic referrals to palliative care from
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Alder Hey works with Watson on ‘cognitive hospital’

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has entered a collaboration with the Hartree Centre to use IBM's artificial intelligence programme
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NHS Improvement defends PLICS timescale and support plans

NHS Improvement is to develop a procurement framework for patient level information costing systems in a bid to provide assurance
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Special report: PLICS

On one reading, everything is in place for all trusts to finally start using PLICS. On another, mistakes are being
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TPP contracts under review while QRisk2 issue is resolved

The Department of Health has ordered contracts being negotiated with TPP to be put under review while an issue with
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And breathe: West Suffolk the other side of its Cerner go-live

Dermot O'Riordan, chief clinical information officer of West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, talks to Lyn Whitfield about its “not quite
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CSC announces merger with offshoot of HP

CSC will merge with HP Enterprise Services, the two US-based technology companies have announced.
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