Several people in the NHS say that health officials and Fujitsu have returned to the negotiating table after talks had stalled over a “contract reset” over the supplier’s £896m deal for installing Cerner’s Millennium systems in the south of England. …
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Fujitsu makes revised offer on NPfIT contract
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290 patient safety incidents reported under NPfIT scheme
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2008/04/290-patient-safety-incidents-r.htmlNearly 300 incidents have put patients at risk since 2005 when health officials began systematic recording of safety matters under the NHS’s National Programme for IT [NPfIT]. The incidents are evidence that new IT systems in the health service can place the safety and health of patients at risk if …
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290 patient safety incidents reported under NPfIT scheme
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2008/04/290-patient-safety-incidents-r-1.htmlNearly 300 incidents have put patients at risk since 2005 when health officials began systematic recording of safety matters under the NHS’s National Programme for IT [NPfIT]. The incidents are evidence that new IT systems in the health service can place the safety and health of patients at risk if …
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The UK Mobile Report
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Why we campaigned over Downing Street NPfIT papers
http://thevideouniverse.com/2008/04/24/why-we-campaigned-ove...source: Why we campaigned over Downing Street NPfIT papers, Tony Collins’s IT Projects Blog Ah, well, back to the drawing board and try again.
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HC2008 News Roundup
http://healthinformaticsblog.com/2008/04/23/hc2008-news-roun...Whitehall advertises for NHS CIO
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News 4/23/08
http://histalk2.com/2008/04/22/news-42308/reduce the scale of the national programme by allowing healthcare organisations to choose systems from the new framework contract rather than having to take the integrated systems that have had delivery problems and delays for the last four years." Link
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Audit trails
http://archrights.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/audit-trails/interesting entry
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Why Terminal 5's baggage failure means BAA's RFID trial must succeed
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/RFID-blog/2008/04/why-te...similar airport baggage system that gained notorious headlines when the airport first opened. Denver International Airport's system in the mid 1990s also turned out to be a disaster, and Tony may well cover that and the similarity with Terminal 5 in his IT projects blog. As far as responsibility for Terminal 5's baggage woes are concerned, strategic planners, BAA IT representatives, and suppliers such as IBM and Vanderlande should by now be getting to the bottom of what caused the problems, whether they can be
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NPfIT blog series Part 3 The future of the NHS…
http://afvallen.nu/2008/04/06/npfit-blog-series-part-3-the-f...source: NPfIT blog series Part 3 The future of the NHS…
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How to safely deliver information to auditors
http://www.identityblog.com/?p=946correspondence between the National Audit Office and Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs over the lost files fiasco that this data should never have been requested, nor supplied. NAO wanted to choose a random sample of child benefit recipients to audit.
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Planet Identity
http://planetidentity.orgApril 05, 2008 12:26 AM I just came across Ian Brown’s proposal for doing random audits while avoiding data breaches like Britain’s terrible HMRC Identity Chernobyl: It is clear from correspondence between the National Audit Office and Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs over the lost files fiasco that this data should never have been requested, nor supplied. NAO wanted to choose a random sample of child benefit recipients to audit.
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No cost-benefit analysis of ID card scheme
http://ukliberty.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/no-cost-benefit-an...project and the organisation’s key strategic priorities, including agreed measures of success. Evaluation of proposals driven by initial price rather than long term value for money (especially securing delivery of business benefits). Is this why the Government still refuses to hand over the age old OGC reports into the scheme? Because they say there is no clue as to what benefits will be gained by us paying £5.6bn?
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