HSCIC plans big data centre of excellence
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is to set up a Centre of Excellence for Big Data and Data Science with the Department of Health and the Cabinet Office.
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In for a bad XPerience
Six months after Microsoft ended general support for Windows XP, EHI ran a short survey to find out whether it is still an issue for trusts. It is. Lis Evenstad and Lyn Whitfield report.
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Plymouth moves 6,200 machines to Win7
A team from Plymouth ICT Shared Service is in the final stages of migrating more than 6,200 PCs, laptops and mobile devices to Windows 7, after a seven month project.
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The husky that came back to bite
EHI editor Jon Hoeksma says transparency is needed on how Fujitsu came to exit NPfIT and then win £700m if we are to avoid such an epic waste of taxpayers’ money in the future.
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1 week to get support for XP extension
Trusts have been told that they have one week to get Microsoft premier support in place if they want to take advantage of a government deal to extend support for Windows XP.
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Cabinet Office agrees one year XP deal
The government has signed a deal with Microsoft to provide Windows XP support and security updates for the entire public sector, including the NHS.
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Ade Memoire
Southampton IM&T director Adrian Byrne argues there is a short window of opportunity to create a single, federated identity for the users of NHS online services that should be grasped.
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Cabinet Office blocks Capita contract
DH plans to become ‘digital examplar’
The Department of Health has said it wants to become a “digital exemplar in Whitehall” in a plan for doing more of its work online and through social media.
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Maxwell becomes govt CTO
Liam Maxwell, who was deputy government chief information officer, has been named the first ever government chief technology officer.
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