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Autism care charity installs document security
A regional charitable trust that provides residential care and education for people in the south-west of England with autism and Asperger’s syndrome has implemented a document security system which is also used by the military. Spectrum, also known as Devon and Cornwall Autistic Community Trust, operates around 23 homes across the south-west of England and […]
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EMIS pilots GP booking through digital TV
EMIS has joined up with a South Yorkshire local government digital TV portal to allow patients to book GP appointments through interactive TV. Patients of two GP surgeries in Barnsley can access the booking service, which links up with EMIS Access, through the local government information channel e@sy Connects TV, beamed to around 10,000 households […]
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Mixed results as Contact splutters into life
E-Health Insider has had a bumper response from NHS staff sharing their experiences of the first week of Contact, the new NHS email system, following last week’s news on the problems some readers have experienced. A major frustration appears to be the difficulty or inability to configure Contact to operate within Microsoft Outlook – a serious problem […]
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New NHS email system switched on
The new NHS email system, Contact, has belatedly gone live after the abortive launch two weeks ago – but early indications from some E-Health Insider readers suggest that some significant teething problems remain with the new Cable & Wireless provided ‘Contact’ system. One NHS IT manager wrote to E-Health Insider this week providing his anonymous […]
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Contact lost as NHS e-mail relaunch misfires
Contact, the new NHS e-mail service supplied by Cable and Wireless, is down for maintenance after problems at its launch on Friday, which some reports say left staff without access to their mailboxes. The Contact service has been temporarily replaced with the previous NHSmail system, as supplied by EDS. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, the servers […]
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EDS given £9m compensation for NHSmail contract
EDS is to recieve £9m in compensation from the Department of Health for the cancellation of its 10-year contract to supply NHSmail, originally awarded in September 2002. The news comes a month after Cable & Wireless was awarded a nine-year replacement contract worth £29.3m for supplying NHSmail’s existing 65,000 users with email and related services, rising […]
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Secure email for health unscrambles new markets
Kodak’s Secure Email System (SES), which up until now has been used solely in healthcare, has been made available to other markets following a deal with software developer Cephire Technologies. The software is currently in use in the US and Europe in hospitals for the exchange of images and patient information between healthcare professionals and […]
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C&W win NHS email and directory contract
Cable & Wireless is the new contractor appointed to manage central e-mail and directory services for the NHS, the Department of Health (DH) announced today. A spokesman for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) confirmed that the nine year contract was worth £29.3m with the current user base which stood at 65,000 (25,000 active users) last […]
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Pro-BNP spam hits NHS inboxes
A spam e-mail sent to NHS staff urging them to vote for the BNP on June 10 and blaming ‘foreign aid to India’ and ‘ill-trained staff who cannot speak English’ for NHS woes has sparked an internal investigation. The e-mail, entitled “An Open Letter to NHS Staff”, was copied from the BNP website and sent […]
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