Remote access across North Mersey
North Mersey Health Informatics Service has implemented a remote access solution for community-based clinicians, using laptops and 3G services. Already, 90 clinicians who work in Mersey Care Trust’s learning disabilities directorate have been equipped with lightweight laptops and 3G wireless data cards, allowing them to access clinical information systems, email and electronic diaries. An independent evaluation by […]
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Left to their own devices?
An E-Health Insider survey has revealed a mixed picture on mobile device security. Stephen Pritchard reports.
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Leicester chooses McKesson for payroll
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has chosen McKesson as its payroll provider. The company will take over payroll at the trust and four others within a local payroll consortium in February next year. The move follows a series of problems with the trusts’ former payroll provider, Capita, which included late and incomplete payments an […]
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Personal view: Derek Hodgson
Derek Hodgson, head of telecommunications for the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, takes on 08 numbers.
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2008 ‘a year of data breaches’
Information Commissioner Richard Thomas has expressed concern about continued data breaches from the public sector – almost a year after HM Revenue and Customs lost the data of 25 million child benefit claimants in the post. In a speech to a European conference on data security, Thomas says “2008 has undoubtedly been a year of […]
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Home Office consults on data access plans
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has indicated that there will be a further round of public consultation on controversial plans to extend public bodies’ access to communications logs. The UK Home Office is already consulting on how to “transpose” a European Union directive on retaining data generated by public communications networks into UK law. This consultation […]
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Lancashire takes charge of USB ports
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust has taken control of its USB ports using a data protection solution from Lumension Security. The trust, which employs 3,500 staff and provides mental health and substance misuse services across Lancashire, held a USB stick amnesty and replaced “rogue” devices with officially sanctioned memory sticks. It then implemented the Sanctuary […]
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Behind the scenes of an EPR deployment: part two
In July, E-Health Insider visited Benenden Hospital in Kent, as it prepared to deploy an Oasis electronic patient record system. Barry Murphy provides a progress update.
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Fujitsu said to be preparing £700m LSP claim
Fujitsu may be preparing to seek up to £700m in compensation from the Department of Health for the termination of its £1.1 billion NHS IT contract in May. The Japanese company had its contract cancelled by NHS Connecting for Health after year-long contract re-negotiations to deliver new electronic patient record systems more flexibly broke down. Fujitsu […]
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Health failing to count the cost of phone failures
A new survey says that a third of people working in healthcare have experienced having their phone cut off due to problems such as equipment failures or cables being accidently cut. The YouGov survey says that 30% of those questioned said they have had their company telephone connection cut off due to failures caused by […]
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