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Today the Conservatives are launching their 'Tech Manifesto'. It contains a bold new commitment: a 'Right to Government Data', says Stephen Shakespeare who is chairman of the Network for the ...
Computer Weekly published today a call by the British Medical Association to halt what it calls a rushed roll-out of an imperfect Care Records Service. Responding to the article, Rob Bowley has ...
Would Summary Care Records have saved the life of Penny Campbell?[Comments 5 and 6 after this article correct some of the impressions I have given. The SCR is equipped to take GP notes] It's rare ...
David Chassels is a former Director of 3i Corporate Finance in Scotland, and a former partner at BDO. He's now CEO of software house Procession, based at Chesham, Buckinghamshire. He writes to me ...
The Information Commissioner's Office is asking businesses and organisations to put a financial value on protecting personal information.Yesterday the ICO, at the Data Protection Officer Conference ...
Andrea Di Maio, vice president at Gartner, says that by 2012 "one in five government processes will rely on "crowdsourced" data". He says CIOs will need to handle a shift from providing ...
Tom Brooks, who spoke about NHS IT on last night's BBC R4 File on 4 broadcast, has let me have his suggestions on what the next government should do about the NPfIT. Brooks, a much-respected figure ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
What Larry wants, Larry gets: what next for acquisitive Oracle?
Editor in chief 08 Feb 2010Several years ago, I sat next to then-Oracle UK managing director Ian Smith at an industry event. At the time, the software giant was pursuing an aggressive and increasingly contentious purchase of ...
Germany has shelved the introduction of the country's e-health card system, which has so far cost £1.5bn, according to the British Medical Journal.The journal says the decision to put the ...
Faulty safety-critical "Fadec" software that was installed on the Chinook Mk2 helicopter had secret modifications after the notorious fatal crash on the Mull of Kintyre, Computer Weekly has ...
The House of Commons held a short debate yesterday on the notorious, fatal crash of Chinook ZD576 on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994. During the debate, the Shadow Defence Minister, Gerald ...
The lead news item on BBC radio and TV news for much of yesterday referred to computer-related evidence about the Chinook Mk2, of the type that crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994. The ...
Below are excerpts from the iSoft's annual report, which is published today [1 September 2009] in Australia. IBA Health in Australia acquired iSoft and has now adopted its name. The annual report ...
The Tories are due today to publish the results of a review of the NPfIT, led by Dr Glyn Hayes, former chairman of the British Computer Society's Health Informatics Forum. Dr Hayes, chairman of the ...
In a Cerner conference call after an announcement of the company's s second-quarter results, there was much discussion about "meaningful use" - a phrase which can unlock money from Congress for ...
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 ...
Today's report of the Public Accounts Committee on the £12.7bn National Programme for IT says it is not yet providing value for money - though the project has existed for nearly seven years. The ...
This photo of Chinook ZD576 is the copyright of Robin Crorie who has given kind permission for it to be used by Computer Weekly in connection with the Campaign for Justice to clear the names of the ...
Comment: My highly subjective overview of some of the good and bad at HC2008, the annual Healthcare Computing conference in Harrogate.. The bad: Some of the speeches were, as in previous years, ...
Following my interview with Microsoft COO Kevin Turner about how IT staff can reach the top and earn more, we've had a couple of e-mails on how to get headhunted. If there is a single watchword for ...
Public Sector IT
Police to be allowed searches of national database of NHS patient records
28 Feb 2008News analysis It went largely unnoticed but the minister for the NHS’s National Programme for IT, Ben Bradshaw, has confirmed that data on a central database of millions of confidential health ...
Cabinet ministers come and go, as do prime ministers, and heads of departments. So who will actually be responsible for ID cards or the NHS's National Programme for IT? Nobody. Thank you to Brian ...
Public Sector IT
Computer Weekly interviews heads of £5bn Defence Information Infrastructure project
20 Nov 2007In this blog entry the two leaders of the £5bn Defence Information Infrastructure contract [DII], who represent the Ministry of Defence and the Atlas consortium of suppliers, led by services ...
Public Sector IT
Letter from 79 doctors, nurses and secretaries over go-live of NHS IT system
11 Apr 2007This is a letter signed by 79 doctors, nurses and secretaries at Milton Keynes General Hospital regarding the implementation of a Care Records Service under the NHS's National Programme for IT ...