The first NHS trusts to upload medical details to a national database as part of the £12.4bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT) were pressured for political reasons to push ahead quickly despite the immaturity of the technology, an independent report is set to reveal.
Connecting for Health, which runs much of the NHS's £12.4bn National Programme for IT , is expected to come under strong criticism in a report commissioned by the government into the progress of online health records.
Sun Microsystems hopes its purchase of the MySQL open-source database will be a key step towards positioning it as the pivotal infrastructure player in a burgeoning online world.
Once the focus of IT security was the network and its perimeter: stop hackers and viruses getting onto your network and you will secure your business. But over the last couple of years, businesses have begun to realise they left the back door open.
Prison Service staff are trying to correct errors in a database covering more than 80,000 prisoners after it emerged that thousands of records were wrong,...
How difficult can content management be? Companies can spend hundreds of thousands of pounds buying enterprise content management (ECM) systems only to find they are unable to make full use of the product. John Powell, chief executive office of open source ECM provider Alfresco, believes there is a better way...