Fourth - and a ticking time bomb - the hospital system is rendered unresponsive to any crisis of any scale. So an air crash, major road accident or terrorist event leads to chaos spanning many hospitals and the road network, as patients and victims...
The upshot is that in the event of a crisis, critical hospital systems can be up and running from the backup facility with little or no interruption in business. Applications and data for each hospital will be stored in a main data centre near...
The country's Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI) adopted Sun Microsystems' Java card technology primarily to prevent identity theft, according to a statement from the computing firm. The distribution of the 22 million health cards, started...
Health care is still potentially one of the big sleepers. The future for the technology industry lies under your skin, according to Intel CEO Craig Barrett. Inefficiencies in the medical industry, along with advances in chip manufacturing and...
The National Audit Office has published a report on the progress of the Care Records Service that underpins the Connecting for Health programme, which found the software development on the Lorenzo database and associated applications that supports...
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.