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Public Sector IT
Exploring the challenges involved in large-scale IT projects in the public sector.
April 2009
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Whitehall clarifies NPfIT Lorenzo timetable
30 Apr 2009 -
Cerner share price at 52-week high
30 Apr 2009 -
Some Mod users vote on new £7bn DII systems
30 Apr 2009
The Department of Health has asked me to correct the impression that the NHS CIO Christine Connelly expects a full implementation of the NPfIT Lorenzo system in an acute trust by November this ...
Cerner's share price is at a 52-week high after announcing an 11% increase in profits in the first quarter. Cerner is one of the two main software suppliers to the NHS's National Programme for IT ...
An unscientific poll of a very small number of end-users of new Windows-based systems being installed as part of the £7bn Defence Information Infrastructure indicates that 31% of them rate the new ...
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NPfIT - what happens now in the south
30 Apr 2009 -
Barts' inpatient waiting list - worst in England?
30 Apr 2009 -
If NPfiT were a jumbo jet heaven help 747 flyers
30 Apr 2009 -
Barts responds over patients lost in NPfIT CRS system
29 Apr 2009 -
On BBC R4 Today - the database state and IT supplier lobbying
29 Apr 2009 -
Treasury silent on its mistake over £7bn DII project
16 Apr 2009 -
NPfIT critics and the Damian McBride smear culture
- Nemertes Research 16 Apr 2009
As Fujitsu departs the NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT] there will be three competitions for the supply of Care Records Service systems to most trusts in the south of England. BT and CSC, as ...
A post on NO2ID points out that Barts and The London has more patients waiting in excess of 30 weeks for inpatient treatment than any other trust listed in Department of Health statistics. The ...
This is an article on the NPfIT to be published in Computer Weekly print edition If the NHS IT scheme, the NPfIT, were a jumbo jet, its frequent crashes would have put fear-of-flying courses out of ...
Barts and The London NHS Trust, as an early adopter of the NPfIT Care Records Service, has responded at length to an investigation by Computer Weekly and The Guardian into the Trust's IT problems. ...
On BBC R4's Today programme on Monday I spoke of how IT suppliers successfully lobby for new work, with the result that ministers and their advisers are kept busy with proposals for new ...
With alacrity, ministers and some senior civil servants regularly criticise the media for not checking facts properly. And now the Treasury has made a basic mistake in a formal report on the £7bn ...
The culture of smear goes much deeper than the Damian McBride affair. Critics of the National Programme for IT [NPfIT] in the NHS have been the subject of smears in debates in the House of Commons ...
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What if unhealthy IT and practices kill patients?
16 Apr 2009 -
SAP go-live in Somerset - are initial problems "normal"?
15 Apr 2009 -
GM bankruptcy fears - what would it mean for EDS?
14 Apr 2009 -
Terrorists, drug-dealers and investigative journalists
14 Apr 2009 -
Heading for the £200 passport to help pay for ID Cards?
08 Apr 2009
Efforts in the US to try to get healthcare IT regulated in the same way as medical devices are not being supported by large IT suppliers who prefer self-regulation. I am grateful to a doctor who ...
An unpleasant side-effect of media coverage of IT-related project failures is that people have come to expect a decline in an organisation's service at and after the installation of a large system. ...
GM bankruptcy fears - it's probably unwelcome news for EDS which used be owned by GM and remains one of EDS's biggest customers. With EDS in its fold, HP commands about a third of GM's $15bn ...
The Government's preoccupation with surveillance of the people means that terrorists, drug dealers and investigative journalists have something in common. Charles Arthur in The Guardian points out ...
When senior officials are interviewed by journalists they usually pick up almost immediately what story the reporter wants to write and may sometimes try to confuse; it can also work the other way. ...