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Blog Below is the result of my interview with Brian James, Chief Executive of Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, which is shortly to buy its main hospital e-record systems outside of the NHS's 12.7bn National Programme for IT [NPfIT]. James answered all my questions with an openness which is r...
Blog A Ministry of Defence official says it is investigating with its contractor EDS whether a 1TB portable hard drive, which went missing from EDS's secure offices at Hook, Surrey, had an unencrypted download of the MoD's "TAFMIS" training and recruitment database. When I put it to an MoD of...
Blog Early in the internet era, consumers made a bargain with tech companies that neither fully understood. "Give the tech firms your data," the agreement went, "and we will provide valuable services, free to you, by monetizing that data." This agreement worked fine and has largely continued without a no...
Consumer data, consumer experience, Customer analytics Blog I have been blogging the last few days about a survey created by a reader. Matt, as he is known, created a survey to get to the bottom of the debate in the UK of whether there is an IT skills gap in the UK or not. If you are an IT professional please fill it in. Yesterday, after the survey reached...
Blog Conservative leader David Cameron has outlined his partys IT strategy for government saying there would be a level playing field for open source software in IT procurement and no room for projects like the hubristic NHS supercomputer. He also proposes spending transparency in wh...
accountability, Government IT, NPfIT Answer Hey, I'm having issues with a c2611XM acquiring an ip address via DHCP I've tried different IOS Versions, different DHCP Server software on multiple operating systems, fresh configs, different MAC address, client-identifiers -This current setup is Client: C2611XM Server: C2611XM (GNS3 Emulated)...
Blog The 2009 SQL PASS Summit has ended. Our friends and extended family have made there way home, or are on there way home. As I sit in the airport on Saturday on my way home to Southern California it seams like a good time to put down some thoughts about this years PASS Summit. I posted some blog ...
Blog "Better for Less: How to make Government IT deliver savings" is a great read although the idea that six months of tight central control can lead to a transformation of government IT sounds a bit like the approach of revolutionaries through the ages: from Robespierre through Marx to ...
FOSS, iMIS, Open source software Blog In the run-up to the budget we will hear much special pleading for special measures because "IT is so important to the economy". Investment in the IT related infrastructure, industries and jobs of the future is indeed at the heart of any credible programme for economic and social recovery.&...
Blog Unless you understand the past you cannot make sense of the present let alone make sensible preparations for an uncertain future. Unfortunately most discussion on education and training policy is based on mythology about the past, systemically flawed measures of success/failure with regard to the pr...
Blog ExtendedA report by University College London on the summary care record scheme is expected to be published on Thursday.Today this blog publishes highlights from a draft of the UCL SCR report. It'll be interesting to compare the draft and final reports to see whether the Department of Health has so...
NPfIT, politics, poor communications Answer Hi all, We installed solution manger3.2 and it was working fine.But since two days our server is not up ie dispatcher+work.exe is stopped.so i am attaching the contents of dev.disp please have a look on it and advice us.Thanks in advance for ur help. ----------------------------------------------...
Blog For the first time in my life, I got turn left when board a plane. I actually turned right in attempt to locate my seat not realising Id been upgrade to First Class on an internal flight. OK. Its hardly business or 1ston a transatlantic. But I took a photo to record the strange and wond...