Bill Gates has also been granted private audiences with Tony Blair, health secretary Alan Milburn, and NHS Trust CEOs. Government plans to use new technology to drive improvements in the NHS have come under fire from doctors' representatives.
A London NHS trust has gone for a central system to manage its PCs and networks as part of a multi-million pound IT overhaul. Denis said: "The challenges faced by the trust are similar to those confronting the entire NHS.
Doctors are also concerned that previously scheduled upgrades to creaking radiology or pathology systems have been put on hold while funds are diverted to installing the new patient record system in every NHS trust.
Although the NHS is known for recruiting doctors and nurses from abroad to fill shortages in the UK, the same does not seem to apply to IT departments in the health service, according to Ted Woodhouse, director of IT strategy at Leeds Teaching...
But the most cost-effective technology in this area is still the "old and unsexy" telephone conferencing, according to Ted Woodhouse, director of IT strategy at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Ted Woodhouse, director of IT strategy, Leeds...
Late last week, CfH - the NHS department administering the IT overhaul (the National Programme for IT, or NPfIT) - issued a statement claiming there was "no question of the confidentiality of patient data having been compromised" at the Trust, as...