Archive for February, 2006

Privacy - they have heard of it.

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

To give people a sense of what is going on, this negligence is something I have been predicting ever since I saw the detail of the NHS Care Records plans! More precisely, the inability to understand what privacy & Data Protection mean instead of paying them lip service.
An users perspective.

Security needs to be designed into the system, not added on as an after thought & certainly not depend on the users sense of propriety! This is about as much use as a chocolate teapot!

Software needs to take account of workflow changes

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

Staff workflow key to health IT success, says study!
Healthcare IT implementations could risk failure if care is not taken of how users react to the tasks they are given, rather than technology itself.

D-uh, really.

Someone tell CfH. I understand that CSC & Accenture need some help.

Bitterness at the VC industry

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

Two and a half years of unsuccessfully trying to raise funds to develop this. Two and a half years of spending hours every day jumping through hoops. Why do I do this when I could work for the DWP verifying “sicknotes”? And thanks to Connecting for Health who managed to destroy any chance of the NHS supporting homegrown developments in the next few years with their farce of an IT procurement scheme.

CRESCENDO ANNOUNCES SERVER-BASED SPEECH RECOGNITION

Dictation software supplier Crescendo Systems has announced a new version of its product suite that will run in a Citrix environment, allowing voice recognition to take place on the server in real time. Crescendo, which uses the Philips SpeechMagic system, says that this means that dictation can be processed remotely or though a web browser, making it ideal for anybody travelling. Costa Mandilaras, president of Crescendo, said that the company “now provides the first dictation and speech recognistion workflow application that brings state-of-the-art speech recognition to Citrix users in the medical and legal field.”


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