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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Eight in ten NHS desktops still on XP
Microsoft’s decision to end support for Windows XP in April next year looks set to cause significant problems for the NHS, with a major new EHI Intelligence report finding that 85% of desktops are still using the obsolete OS.
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Morecambe gets Horizon View of Lorenzo
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust has implemented a virtual desktop infrastructure in A&E to give staff easier access to Lorenzo.
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Kent and Medway virtualises desktops
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has chosen a thin client strategy to cope with increasing demands on its network, which serves 4,000 staff and 3,000 computers across 100 sites. The mental health trust asked IT consultancy Centralis to design and build a proof of concept based on Citrix’s XenApp and Appsense […]
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Vet centre
Dr Adam Darkins explains to Neil Versel why telehealth is key to the future of the Veterans Health Administration.
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Trust tracks and recovers stolen laptop
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust has tracked down and recovered five stolen laptops after installing Computrace on the trust’s equipment. The trust, which employs 3,500 staff and provides mental health and substance misuse services across Lancashire, implemented Computrace from Absolute Software across its whole IT estate of laptops, desktops and specialist healthcare tablets three years […]
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Sheffield puts records on bedside terminals
An NHS trust in Sheffield its using its bedside entertainment system to give doctors and other medical staff access to patient records.
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Virtualisation at the Royal College of Physicians
The Royal College of Physicians has implemented a complete virtual desktop and server consolidation strategy in a bid to reduce costs and speed up deployment. Using a programme based on the VMware Infrastructure platform, the college has consolidated its server estate from multiple locations to one central datacentre containing HP blades, and established a data […]
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Testing, testing
Informing Healthcare has opened new research laboratories in Swansea. Lyn Whitfield paid them a visit.
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EHI’s news roundup 15.08.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week ending 15 August features supplier news and information on newly published research reports.
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