NHS Digital expands cyber security toolkit with new free services for trusts
A range of free IT perimeter security tools are being made available to NHS organisations through a new contract between NHS Digital and Accenture.
Cyber Security
AI: Injecting Intelligence into Healthcare
Accenture’s six-country survey among 180 C-level health executives says adoption of AI is measured, but real. The survey assessed beliefs about market maturity, practical and clinical challenges to the adoption of AI in healthcare.
Health CIO
The growing role of digital technology in supporting self-care
According to latest research by Accenture, healthcare consumers continue to show strong use of digital technology for self-care, with mobile phones, social media and wearables showing a big upward swing.
Health CIO
The future of digital health leaders: Priorities and perspectives of CIOs
Accenture Health, together with analysis and advisory company Oxford Analytica, spoke to CIOs in seven countries (including the UK) to understand their priorities and gather their views on the future of digital healthcare leaders.
Health CIO
Exclusive: 500m emails flood NHS during #replyallgate
More NHSmail emails were sent in 75 minutes than in a normal three months after a “software configuration error” nearly crashed the system.
Infrastructure
Severe NHSmail delays should have eased – NHS Digital
But some NHSmail services could still be experiencing delays caused by an inadvertent email to 840,000 users, and the subsequent flood of ‘reply-all’ emails.
Infrastructure
1.1 million on NHSmail 2, push for social care expansion
More than a million people have now switched to NHSmail 2, with ambitions to extend the service to pharmacies and social care.
Infrastructure
NHSMail 2 rolled out to 200,000 NHS staff
More than 200,000 people have already been switched to NHSmail 2 and most will have barely noticed, the HSCIC says.
Infrastructure
NHSmail 2 faces delay
Accenture wins NHSmail as crash reported
The Department of Health has announced that consultancy firm Accenture has won a £60 million contract to provide the new NHSmail service the same week the current system was out of action for several hours.
Infrastructure