EHI’s industry round-up 19.02.09
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers system deployments, new products, and other developments at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Wirral goes wireless with Aruba Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a secure wireless network from Aruba Networks at Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge Hospitals. Peter Marsh, technical director of the Wirral Health Informatics […]
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Great Yarmouth controls network with Sophos
NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney has deployed a Sophos network access control solution to protect its network and enforce baseline IT policies. The primary care trust covers a population of more than 200,000 people and has seen a rise in remote working and requests for guest access to its network, either for work or for […]
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Follow my leader
In the latest feature from NHS Connecting for Health, Dr Raj Kumar and Dr Andrew Coley discuss the NHS Clinical Leaders Network.
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Demonstrators make slow progress
Around 650 people are using new assistive care technologies as part of the Whole System Demonstrator project, according to the Department of Health. The WSD project was launched last May and hopes to recruit 6,000 users to test telehealth and telecare solutions in Newham, Cornwall and Kent. The project is due to run for a […]
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NHS severe computer faults double
NHS Connecting for Health, the health service’s IT agency, has revealed that the number of severe faults in NHS computer systems has doubled over the past three years. Last year nationwide NHS computer systems suffered 820 severity-one or critical faults with national applications, provided by National Application Service Providers (NASPs) the majority relating to the […]
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Universal broadband by 2012
The government has outlined plans to ensure every home has a high-speed broadband connection by 2012, as part of plans to boost the UK digital economy. The interim Digital Britain report focuses on boosting the digital and communications industries, which are said to contribute more than £50bn a year to the UK economy. Additionally, the […]
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Barts virus attack ‘avoidable’
The Mytob worm attack on the Barts and the London NHS Trust network was “entirely avoidable”, an independent review has concluded. Board papers published on the trust’s website indicate that although the trust had anti-virus protection “that was updated on a daily basis prior to the attack” this “did not reach all PCs” and was […]
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Airwave on tube but few ambulances
The Airwave radio network has been rolled out on the London Underground and has been presented as a step forward for the troubled digital communications project.
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Nortel files for bankruptcy protection
Nortel Networks, the Canadian telecoms equipment and networks specialist, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US to enable it to restructure. Nortel provides network and telecoms services to a number of NHS trusts in the UK, including: Liverpool Women’s hospital; Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust; and IP telephony to NHS trusts in Worcester and central […]
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Barts virus caused ‘major internal incident’
Last November’s Mytob worm attack on the network of Barts and the London NHS Trust led to its ‘major internal incident’ plan being activated, with some ambulances redirected from A&E. The network failure was one of the most severe known to have occurred at an NHS hospital trust. To clean and restore the infected network, Barts […]
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