Medplus claim the reseller agreement is in line with the UK's healthcare institution shift towards electronic patient records - expected to be complete in 2005. Medplus sells workflow software called ChartMaxx to healthcare organisations in the...
The UK government's first attempt to store criminal records electronically could threaten individuals' privacy rights, according to the UK data protection watchdog. The National Criminal Records Bureau (NCRB), to be based in Liverpool, will be...
Indian IT firm Infosys has been called in to help National Health Service doctors unravel the complexities of electronic patient records. Infosys will help the NHS with programme management, data migration, system integration, system design and...
Holland believes there is huge opportunity for RFID technology beyond the retail market for the automotive and pharmaceutical industries. Faye Holland, worldwide RFID leader at IBM Global Services, said she believes the company has an enormous...
Second, it will combine the passenger records with data purchased from unspecified "commercial data aggregators who provide services to the banking, home mortgage and credit industries" to see how much it may help the data-mining process.
The government moved this week to allay public concerns over the privacy of the new electronic patient records by setting out guidelines on which information can be stored and who can access it. But Granger said "in a strict legal sense" the...