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S'pore e-health records roadmap 'pragmatic'
News Singapore and other Asian countries have ingredients for successful implementation of e-healthcare services, say executives from GE Healthcare.
Tags: Data Management, Local Government, Regulations, GE Healthcare, General Electric Co., E-health, Asia-Pacific, Spokesperson, Singapore, electronic health record
Four steps to smarter outsourcing
Insight perspective Whether you're new to outsourcing or an old pro, a consultant offers advice to make your deals the best they can be.
Tags: Outsourcing, Offshoring, IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Security, IT Security, Outsourcing Company, performance, outsourcing arrangement, outsource
When IT and healthcare come together
Insight CIO 1-1 SingHealth's Dr. Low Cheng Ooi shares his views on how IT and healthcare are colliding to bring forth the future of medicine for patients and practitioners.
Tags: IT project management, Data Management, Leadership, Technology, Clinician, EMR, globalization, analytics, information technology company, chairman
UK health system gets 100,000 locked-down USB storage devices
News After a series of data breaches that has caused embarassment and worse for the public sector, the National Health System has ordered 100,000 secure USB memory devices.
Tags: Data security, Privacy, procurement leader, Storage, USB, West Suffolk Hospital National Health System Trust, password protection, Procurement, public sector, Hospital
NSW health IT gets US$460M injection
News New South Wales special commissioner Peter Garling has prescribed a "one-off injection" to remedy a system bogged down by, among other things, paper and technical inadequacies.
Tags: Web sites, Business broadband, Database management, Privacy, Clinician, E-health, electronic health record, Broadband, electronic record, investment strategy
Virus downs systems at three London hospitals
News The unspecified computer virus has resulted in the indefinite shutting down of non-essential IT systems at Barts, the Royal London Hospital and The London Chest Hospital.
Tags: Security, Backup, Spokesperson, Computer, Environment, Hospital, London, virus, accident, backup system
Wireless industry wants in on US healthcare stimulus money
News Wireless industry is hoping it can reap the rewards of billions of dollars being spent on health care technology as part of the economic stimulus package.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Wireless LANs, Handhelds, Cisco Systems Inc., wireless industry, Wireless, electronic health record, electronic record, Wireless LANs, Hospital
Templates published for mass fatality incidents
Blogs Many hospitals are unprepared to deal with large numbers of dead bodies--a mass fatality incident, or MFI--that would re...
Conficker infected critical hospital equipment, expert says
News Hundreds of PCs and medical devices at hospitals in the U.S. were found to be infected with the Conficker worm recently, a security expert says.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Access Control, removable storage, computer, SCADA, Hospital, Worker, Marcus Sachs, network, Microsoft Windows
London hospitals still battling computer virus
News After 11 days, engineers at three London Hospitals are still trying to restore full network access for staff and clean the virus from remaining PCs.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Spam and phishing, Data security, Database management, Computer, W32/Mytob.gen@mm, Hospital, London, virus, Silicon.com
Apple's Steve Jobs back at work
News The company's chief executive has officially returned from a six-month medical leave of absence.
Tags: Personnel management, Investments, Apple Inc., Bloomberg L.P., Absence, Cupertino, CEO, Tennessee, senior vice president, Apple iPhone
Getting tested for H1N1 flu in Singapore
Blogs A colleague of mine returned to Singapore on Wednesday, May 27 from Boston, USA, where he'd spent the week between May 1...
The day tech saved me
Blogs A few months ago, I accepted an invitation from my car manufacturer to attend a driver orientation program. During that ...
Valleywag: Steve Jobs undergoing surgery Monday
News Apple's CEO has reportedly checked into Stanford Hospital, near his home in Palo Alto, Calif., for an unspecified surgical procedure.
Tags: Components, Consumer Technology, Handhelds, Personal Computers, Apple Inc., Surgery, Bloomberg L.P., Valleywag, CEO, News.com
Aust hacker jailed for three years
News A computer engineer who crashed several government services and caused millions of dollars of damage has reportedly been jailed for three years.
Tags: Hacking, IP, computer, information technology worker, David Anthony McIntosh, Microsoft Windows NT, Hacker, U.S. Supreme Court, team, Hacking
