Northern Ireland trust awards five-year deal for voice and data communications Belfast health and social care trust has awarded BT a deal worth up to £20m for a range of voice and data services. Under the five-year contract, BT will provide around 17,000 users with communications technology to support...
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Cabinet Office transition plans reveal N3 extension and potential tie-up between N4 and PSN The NHS's N3 network could be set to run for another year, according to documents released by the Cabinet Office, with plans to establish a successor already under way. N3, one of the largest VPNs in Europe...
Department agrees with most of the committee's recommendations, but says the National Programme for IT has 'successfully delivered' a number of applications HM Treasury has agreed in full with the majority of the public accounts committee's (PAC) key criticisms and conclusions on the...
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Officials warn that healthcare organisations are showing little enthusiasm to join the Public Service Network NHS organisations in England are showing a reluctance to consider future use of the Public Service Network (PSN), according to officials and a supplier taking part in its early implementation...
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Scottish Government publishes a tender worth up to £50m for health service telecoms National Services Scotland (NSS) is looking for a single supplier for a framework deal to supply Scottish health boards with voice telecoms services. In a notice published in the Official Journal of the European Union...
We are back to one of my favorite topics again, those folks who makes laws but were up in arms about the potential of some of their private information being gathered by Google. Well, do what the rest of use do, use a password on your home wireless networks, IT Illiteracy here again. They...
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If you are a patient you want something like this going on monitoring your care as the physician can log in anywhere in the hospital to check vitals and other specific conditions. We are talking blood coagulations and insulin levels here so again this goes beyond just the basics and comes into...
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This is an excellent example of members of Congress being the “non participants” in technology if this is the case. Everybody knows, Best Buy tells you as well as other retailers to secure your wireless network. These are the folks making laws that serve on Committees like Homeland Security...
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When it comes to security you can’t take too many precautions. This article from the LA Times talks about someone who used to be on the other side who now is unleashed by his employer to see if your system can be hacked. The scary thing in this article is that he’s not found one he can’t...
In addition to the Department of Defense, the Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department Web sites were also under attack last week and were down at certain points. It was just back in December that DOD has a virus throughout the system which appeared...
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