Health security defeats RAF testers
A team of RAF security experts recently spent three days attempting to penetrate the wireless networking component of a managed service covering healthcare for British Forces in Germany – and failed. The secure networking is part of a managed service, PAS 2.0, built and hosted by Dataline Software for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation […]
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Blackpool upgrades infrastructure
Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has signed a five year deal with BT to upgrade its IT communications infrastructure. The upgrade at the trust’s main Victoria Hospital site will include the roll out of an Internet Protocol based telephone system and a complete computer network upgrade to support the new infrastructure. The system […]
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Nottingham PCT rolls out IP communications
Nottingham Primary Care trust has rolled out a modern communications network to cover the city centre, county and surrounding districts. The PCT issued a tender for a technology refresh in January 2007, indicating that it wanted to develop its infrastructure to meet emerging business needs and take advantage of new technologies. The ability to network […]
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Software replaces fax and phone organ allocation
NHS Blood and Transplant is preparing to roll out a new software system to speed up the process of allocating organs for transplant.
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Expert view: beating malware
Mark Jackson, consulting systems engineer, Cisco Systems, argues that it’s time for a new approach.
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Kettering accelerates access to images
Kettering General Hospital has deployed WAN optimisation technology to transfer radiology files of up to 500Mb to a clinic 12 miles – and five LAN network hops – from its main campus. The trust says this has reduced image loading times by 80%, delivering significant cost savings, clinical benefits and leveraging the existing PACS and […]
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Just champion
Sue Rushbrook won the Healthcare ICT Champion of the Year award for her work on a voice and data network that has now been integrated with core computer systems.
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Westminster accelerates access to applications
Westminster Primary Care Trust has solved lengthy log in times for community staff by implementing a Cisco Wide Area Application Service across five of its 22 sites. By using the WAAS and sorting out profiles the PCT has reduced log on and log off times to its network from over seven minutes to less than a minute, […]
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No more pins: digital signage in Birmingham
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has deployed one of the UK’s largest digital signage networks. The Connectvision system from Saturn Communications Group will deliver visitor and internal information to 75 digital LCD screens and more than 5,000 desktop PCs. The trust says that on any one day, 10,000 patients, visitors and staff can be […]
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