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- England rolls out online flu pandemic service; Crashes after 8 minutes
- England rolls out online flu pandemic service; Crashes after 8 minutesWhy include the URL in your post?Are you trying to have the site taken down permanently by people outside of the UK who have no reason to go there whatsoever but to have a nosey?Why don't you just hire a...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Wales, HMG, flu, online flu, Parliament
- Discussion threads 2009-07-23
- England rolls out online flu pandemic service; Crashes after 8 minutes
- The UK Government has rolled out the National Pandemic Flu Service in England today. Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have decided to opt out of the service as demands in numbers are significantly less than that of England. According to the BBC, the UK may have over...
- Tags: Health Care, Site, England, H1N1 Flu, Service, UK Government, Flu Service, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Should doctors go on strike?
- Should doctors go on strike?Big government is the cause... of crazy medical expense. We need less regulation so there's less room for the insurance company and lawyer manipulation that jacks the medical cost. Obama's more government involvement is the wrong solution.No, life, liberty and the pursuit of happinessare fundamental human...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Medical Care, Obama, Big Government, health care, medical care, HIPPA
- Discussion threads 2009-07-09
- Where are the French code warriors when it's "Le Weekend?"
- Where are the French code warriors when it's "Le Weekend?"Welcome to the Republic!In france, there is a strict 37 hour working week, and limitations on overtime.Even reality TV contestants are subject to such employement law: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8085015.stmOn the one hand I admire them for putting work in to perspective, on the...
- Tags: Le Weekend
- Discussion threads 2009-06-07
- Wyeth UK Gains Single Customer View and Drives Customer Focus With Companywide CRM System
- Wyeth wanted to become the most customer-oriented healthcare company in the United Kingdom within three years and move from a product-oriented approach to a customer-oriented approach to better manage customer relationships with organizations such as the National Health Service. The challenge was to provide a comprehensive, single view of all...
- Tags: Wyeth, CRM System, Oracle Corp., CRM, 3G, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- Reformed computer criminals - your country needs you
- And trust me, they really do. Over the last year, the UK and US Governments have had an awful problem in keeping basic data protection rules in check, almost to the point where they may have been broadcasting over the radio minutes of the intelligence committee meetings. ...
- Tags: Computer, Hat Hacker, Productivity, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Lame NHS loses 31,000 patient records
- Setting an example for irresponsibility, while violating security policies, the UK National Health Service NHS has lost unencrypted data on 31,000 patients. The data was lost when thieves stole several NHS laptops. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Patient, Laptop Computer, Lame NHS, National Health Service, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Universal coverage changes the debate
- Once you start following countries with universal health care, it's clear that problems remain but the terms of debate shifts. Take Canada, for instance. (Please?) Questions of how much money is spent on drugs cease being academic. Government can freely decide what people can...
- Tags: Health Care, Canada, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- UK Health Program: a Very Sick Patient
- UK Health Program: a Very Sick PatientYou wait ages for a failed IT project and then four come along at onceThe failure of an IT project in the National Health Service is one of a number of failures in information technology recently. Other disasters are to be found at the...
- Tags: Other Disasters, patient, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- Mobile eMC: UK electronic Medicines Compendium 10.1.2 (Mobile)
- The UK electronic Medicines Compendium is the most authoritative, up-to-date and trustworthy source of information about medicines licensed for use in the UK - providing Summaries of Product Characteristics SPCs on over 3,000 UK prescription-only and OTC licensed medicines. Comprehensive monographs provide a wide range of clinical, pharmacological and...
- Tags: Medicine, Mobile, Pharmaceutical Company, U.K., EMC Corp., Skyscape Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-04-29
- Is IT abuse a threat to democracy?
- Is IT abuse a threat to democracy?Mind ControlWith my X-files inspired name, and a subject line like that, I probably deserver to be dismissed as a loon, but...A read of Derren Brown's book "Mind Control" should make even the the most ardent sceptic ponder on just how controllable people are....
- Tags: Biometrics, Government, Authentication/Encryption, Mind Control, Google Inc., information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- Eclipse co-founder Skip McGaughey on Open Health mission
- Skip McGaughey, who was the original co-chair of the Eclipse Foundation while at IBM, has a new mission, to bring that same open source collaboration to health care. McGaughey, who has been based in Asheville, NC since launching Eclipse, is the first head of the Open Health...
- Tags: Health Care, Eclipse, Standards, McGaughey, OHT, Kestrel, Terminology People, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Massachusetts finds unintended consequences in health care reform
- Massachusetts finds unintended consequences in health care reformWell, duh.The hallmark of socialism is shortages. Massachusettes socializes it's health care, and wow, shock, just like Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Oregon and Hawaii, shortages appear.lol...[i]By putting 340,000 new customers on the rolls demand for service has skyrocketed. Doctors just can't keep up.[/i]That...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Massachusettes, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- More EDS issues over botched IT project in UK
- More EDS issues over botched IT project in UKMore EDS issues over botched IT project in UKThis is not the first catastrophe we've had in UK. The list of late and failed Government projects is very long indeed. There's also the small(!) matter of cost overruns, equipment failures and incompatibility...
- Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- Can medical inflation be controlled?
- Everyone talks about medical inflation. But no one does anything about it. (Picture from Majorconflict.com, a liberal blog.) A quick look at the figures gathered by Watson Wyatt today make that point clearly. Medical inflation is a global phenomenon. Whether you run it privately...
- Tags: Health Care, Inflation, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- UK defense ministry loses 600,000 IDs on laptop
- Another screw-up for British government security practices. From Ars Technica: A laptop that was stolen from the car of a military recruitment officer contained information about approximately 600,000 people, most of whom were prospective recruits. The database stored on the laptop was not encryptedâ€"a significant...
- Tags: Policy, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Banking, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Financial Services, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
- Data breaches: 2007 IT failure superstar
- Data breaches represented the most important category of IT failure during 2007. The year 2007 saw spectacular failures, ranging from improperly-paid teachers at Arizona State University ASU and the Los Angeles Unified School District LAUSD, to a massive implementation problem at the UK National Health Service NHS,...
- Tags: Breach, Information Technology, Data Breach, Disaster Recovery, Strategy, Data Management, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-12-29
- Socialized medicine benefits the middle class
- A Conservative think tank in the UK called Civitas has today's "duh" study, a "duh" study being an expensive piece of work which proves the blazingly obvious. Middle class people get more from government programs than poor people. The subject in this case...
- Tags: Benefit, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
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