Care workers will be able to tap the power of text messaging to provide better services thanks to a deal struck between ATL Data Management Services and Anite Telecoms. ATL's offering to the sector is called Smart Care, which from now can employ a...
Fujitsu Services has won the final regional £896m NHS electronic care records contract - leaving EDS empty-handed in its bids for various parts of the £5bn NHS IT modernisation programme. The Fujitsu Alliance will run the contract until 2013 for...
Should companies care? Large companies do not have an economic incentive to prevent privacy breaches occurring, according to researchers from Harvard and Carnegie Mellon Universities this week. The researchers studied 78 breaches from 2000 to 2006...
A national database of adult social care employees is being developed by the skills council covering that sector. In a project worth more than £6m, Skills for Care is developing the National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC) with tech...
Cups director Lorrie Cranor said: "There have been so many other studies saying that people do not care about privacy. We confirmed our hypothesis that people do, in fact, care about privacy and will pay for it.
A health trust serving more than 500,000 people said it has pulled out of the national NHS IT electronic care record programme because it has lost confidence in the project following the departure of key supplier Fujitsu.