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August 2009 articles (12)


Bollywood Baby!

Posted on 27 August 2009 at 12:04 by Jane Miller

Sitting for an entire day in front of a plate of uncooked pasta with a wasp crawling in one’s glass of wine - which was in fact grape juice - is not everyone’s idea of fun. However, it is what both I and my husband Gerald spent most of Friday the 21st August doing. And surprisingly enough, it was fun. For neither of us have ever been an ‘Extra’ before, and certainly not in a much-hyped Bollywood movie.  Read more...

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Cross Talk on bloke speak

Posted on 25 August 2009 at 17:34 by NHS Resource Centre

Suddenly, everybody is an expert on computerising the health service. Mike Cross thinks it’s time for the real experts to try and explain some of the complexities to the bloke down the pub who reckons a website or a USB stick for every patient should do the job. Read more...

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Accentuate the positive

Posted on 25 August 2009 at 17:03 by NHS Resource Centre

Is there any good news about NHS IT? A round-table organised by Simpl and attended by Microsoft aimed to find some. Sarah Bruce was there to report on the results.  Read more...

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Microsoft NHS Resource Centre: news round up

Posted on 25 August 2009 at 14:13 by NHS Resource Centre

Welcome to the Microsoft NHS Resource Centre’s seven day round up of the latest news from the NHS and the healthcare IT sector. Read more...

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News analysis: Conservative plans for NHS IT

Posted on 19 August 2009 at 14:02 by NHS Resource Centre

Health service technology doesn’t get too much attention in the press, but the Conservative Party’s plans to shake up the National Programme for IT in the NHS changed all that. Lyn Whitfield reports. Read more...

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Life on Marsland on forms delivering substance

Posted on 18 August 2009 at 15:31 by NHS Resource Centre

Iain Marsland used to think there were two ways of creating electronic records – implement a full electronic patient record system or scan your documents. Now, he has found a third way: electronic forms.  Read more...

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Microsoft NHS Resource Centre: news round up

Posted on 18 August 2009 at 13:54 by NHS Resource Centre

Welcome to the Microsoft NHS Resource Centre’s seven day round up of the latest news from the NHS and the healthcare IT sector. Read more...

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Time for FAST thinking

Posted on 11 August 2009 at 14:41 by NHS Resource Centre

Microsoft’s enterprise search technology is billed as ‘search 2.0’ – and it is already opening up information sources across the NHS. Daloni Carlisle reports. Read more...

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Microsoft NHS Resource Centre: news round up

Posted on 11 August 2009 at 13:51 by NHS Resource Centre

Welcome to the Microsoft NHS Resource Centre’s seven day round up of the latest news from the NHS and the healthcare IT sector. Read more...

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Worldwide EMIS Web

Posted on 10 August 2009 at 14:20 by NHS Resource Centre

GP system provider EMIS has been recognised by Microsoft for its ‘next generation’ system, EMIS Web. Fiona Barr finds out why and how the system is already being used to join up care in the NHS. Read more...

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Green Scene looks for a green lining in the cloud

Posted on 04 August 2009 at 11:47 by NHS Resource Centre

Hints that the Conservative Party might abandon parts of the National Programme for IT in the NHS in favour of cloud-based medical records have caused much debate; but none of it has focused on the green potential of the idea. Andrew Donoghue redresses the balance.  Read more...

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Microsoft NHS Resource Centre: news round up

Posted on 04 August 2009 at 11:24 by NHS Resource Centre

Welcome to the Microsoft NHS Resource Centre’s seven day round up of the latest news from the NHS and the healthcare IT sector Read more...

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