60 Second Interview: Chris Cook
In the latest 60 second interview focusing on the people making NHS computing work, Joe Fernandez quizzes Chris Cook, IT director for the private Nuffield Hospitals group.
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Essex River implement remote access for radiologists
Radiologists at the Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust are able to view PACS images remotely thanks to a new secure remote access solution from infrastructure specialists Eurodata. The trust wanted a solution that would help to make access to images faster and available from any PC, not just the desktops within the hospital site. Until […]
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Cancer researchers link by video
Joe Fernandez looks at how the CancerGrid project is using video conferencing technology to link researchers from Belfast to Cambridge.
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Nuffield Hospitals invest in new Dell hardware
Nuffield Hospitals group has replaced its entire desktop infrastructure with a new set of 3,500 new desktop PCs provided by Dell. The private hospital group, which has 40 hospitals in England and Scotland, made the investment after deciding its existing infrastructure had reached end-of-life and required replacement. Nuffield’s general manager for IT service management, Iain […]
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Disk imaging for largest NI community trust
The largest community trust in Northern Ireland, Homefirst Community Health and Social Services Trust, has installed the Universal Imaging Utility (UIU) software distribution system from Big Bang LLC. Homefirst, which covers 100 health and social care facilities, 300,000 people and employs 5000 staff, installed the software to make it easier to distribute patches and updates […]
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NHS Scotland signs Microsoft licensing deal
NHS Scotland has signed a national deal with Microsoft to supply office software and desktop operating systems at a discounted rate, saving an estimated £8m. Terms of the three-year deal were not disclosed, and the agreement is the first of its kind that NHS Scotland and Microsoft have signed together. Microsoft already has an enterprise-wide […]
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NHS Wales signs software deal with Microsoft
NHS Wales has signed a corporate licensing enterprise agreement with Microsoft covering the firm’s latest desktop and mobile computing software. The three year deal is estimated to provide savings of £6.1 million compared to trusts locally negotiating software licensing deals. The deal follows the £500m three year corporate licensing deal Microsoft signed with the English […]
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Unravelling cable
Getting your structured cabling in order is important to installing new IT systems on any site, argues Rosemary McGlashon from 3M.
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NHS trusts save £4.5m on IT through e-commerce
A group of NHS trusts have predicted that they will savings of nearly 30% on IT hardware by using an online auction. Using the online auction some 137 NHS trusts, organised into six regional consortia, were able to save nearly a third off all the desktops and laptops they needed over the next 18-months. Projected […]
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Single sign-on targeted at UK health organisations
An IT security company which claims successful implementations in US hospitals of its enterprise single-sign on (ESSO) system has set up a European base and is attempting to target the UK health IT market. Imprivata, based in Lexington, Massachusetts, has developed the OneSign system (below), which allows a single authentication onto a network. According to the […]
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