1 July 2009

FASS up to 100,000 telecare deployments

The biggest monitoring centre for telecare alarms in mainland Europe has announced its 100,000th telecare deployment. The Fundacion Andaluza de
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1 July 2009

South of Tyne and Wear secures devices

NHS South of Tyne and Wear is adopting a layered approach to device security in the light of public concern
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19 June 2009

Innovate or die, NHS told

Lord Darzi of Denham has become the latest minister to urge the NHS not to cut back on technology or
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15 June 2009

Money, money, money

The theme of this year’s NHS Confederation conference was money; or rather the coming lack of it. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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10 June 2009

Confed: future ‘unprecedentedly difficult’

The NHS Confederation has warned that the health service is facing a £15 billion shortfall from 2010-11 and changed ways
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9 June 2009

ICO issues privacy guide; Salford rapped

The Information Commissioner’s Office has urged organisations to consider privacy before developing new IT systems or changing the way they
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9 June 2009

Mike O’Brien new minister for NHS IT

Mike O’Brien, the MP for North Warwickshire, has become the latest minister to take responsibility for NHS Connecting for Health
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5 June 2009

CfH one of ‘big three’ users of consultants

NHS chief executive David Nicholson has identified NHS Connecting for Health as one of the big three users of management
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3 June 2009

Professional services cost billions

Healthcare IT professional services are now generating revenues of more than $2.2 billion (€1.5 billion) a year, according to Frost
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22 May 2009

Nicholson warns of ‘unprecedented’ savings

NHS chief executive David Nicholson has warned the NHS that it may need to make “unprecedented” levels of savings from
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