Healthcare and NHS IT
IT is becoming increasingly critical for healthcare delivery. Vital initiatives such as electronic medical records, patient administration systems and telehealth are receiving growing investment in the NHS and elsewhere. Key technologies such as mobile, tablets and cloud are also essential for improving the healthcare industry with digital healthcare technology. Read the latest news about NHS IT and find resources on the broader world of healthcare IT with the news, case studies and advice in this topic section.
NHS whistleblowers at risk due to poor IT policies
In this week's Computer Weekly, our investigation into NHS practices shows how poor IT policies are putting whistleblowers at risk. Our buyer's guide examines the networking implications of the surge in remote working. And we assess how well the public cloud giants responded to the demands of the coronavirus pandemic Read the issue now.
News : Healthcare and NHS IT
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January 15, 2021
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Coalition proposes secure standard model for Covid-19 passports
Vaccination Credential Initiative is working to ensure that people vaccinated against Covid-19 can access their records in a secure, verifiable and privacy-preserving way
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January 15, 2021
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Tech partnership to drive Finland’s quantum computing project
Organisations in Finland are developing quantum computing capabilities through a state and private sector partnership
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January 15, 2021
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UK government urged to implement cloud-centric transformation plan
The approach to digital public services needs to be reinvented to catch up with global leaders, according to new research
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January 13, 2021
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Covid-19 immunity passport tests to begin in UK
A Covid-19 immunity and vaccination passport developed by two UK firms and backed by Innovate UK has entered the live testing phase
In Depth : Healthcare and NHS IT
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Interview: AWS’s Teresa Carlson talks about new role and cloud adoption during Covid-19
AWS executive talks about her expanded remit beyond public sector to include other industries, and driving a unified agenda to push cloud and data adoption worldwide Continue Reading
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Interview: Chris Hayman, AWS UK public sector director, on cloud evolution during Covid-19
AWS executive discusses the evolution of cloud technology in government, the need for dynamic procurement, skills, and joining the oligarchy of government tech suppliers Continue Reading
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UK government coronavirus data flawed and misleading
Government Covid-19 coronavirus data has been a miasma of inexactitude, often basically flawed and misleading Continue Reading
Blog Posts : Healthcare and NHS IT
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Track and trace: please call in the IT experts
At the end of September, 15,841 cases of coronavirus, over an eight day period, were lost due to an IT glitch. The bug meant that there were long delays in contact tracing staff reaching people who ... Continue Reading
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Why not collaborate on an international contact-tracing app? (Well, we know why the UK won't...)
To the surprise of nobody, the government has reversed its plans for the NHS contact-tracing app, switching from its initial centralised model to the decentralised version supported by Google and ... Continue Reading
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Contact-tracing app tests on the Isle of Wight show that technology is not the solution
The NHSX contact-tracing app has been in live testing on the Isle of Wight for over a week now, and already we can make one important conclusion – a conclusion that was surely self-evident anyway. ... Continue Reading
Opinion : Healthcare and NHS IT
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From front line to back office – how supporting the cyber community keeps the NHS safe
NHS Digital’s chief information security officer describes how the Cyber Associates Network benefits security experts in health and care Continue Reading
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What will it take for humanity to fully understand tech?
The failure of the coronavirus contact-tracing system, due to limits set by an old Excel format, demonstrates a failure of technology to cope with human reliance Continue Reading
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Excel is the hammer for too many businesses’ nails
Excel is a fine piece of software, but as Public Health England found out, its ubiquity and ease of use does not make it the ideal tool for every job that involves data Continue Reading
Videos : Healthcare and NHS IT
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Lauri Love: how reformed hackers halted the WannaCry virus
Lauri Love presents a compelling story of the WannaCry malware that nearly brought down the NHS, and the behind the scenes work of former hackers, and security researchers that helped to prevent lives being lost. Love is facing extradition to the US after allegedly taking part in a hacking protest over the death of internet pioneer Aaron Swartz, who faced jail for using a hidden computer to downloading academic journals at MIT.
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CW500 Video: Cloud options investigated - Nuffield Health
For most IT leaders, the key decision is no longer whether or not to use the cloud, but how best to deploy it in their environment
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IBM Extreme Blue 2013: Voice Bank project captures the human voice
A team of undergraduates working for IBM have developed a medical application for helping patients who have lost their voice