Other Documents

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Other Documents

e-Health Insider Document Library (a very useful resource for accessing documents by and about NPfIT)

Health Informatics community web-site (a large document repository)

Shifting the Balance of Power within the NHS: Securing Delivery States that "The balance of power must be shifted towards frontline staff who understand patients' needs and concerns" (Department of Health, July 2001)

New NHS IT An an accurate, brief and clear summary of the situation at the time of writing (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, Feb 2004)

Streamed video of lecture "Connecting Patients, Providers and Educators" by John D. Halamka, of Harvard Medical School (2005).

The Spine, an English national programme - a Ringholm White Paper, describing the Spine (25 Mar 2005)

System Design Or Social Change - submission by Malcolm Mills to the Parliamentary IT Committee (PITCOM) on the subject of Public Sector 'IT' procurement (6 Apr 2006)

NHS IT chief meets criticism head-on - interview with Richard Granger in Computing, 25 May 2006

NHS IT - transcript of BBC File-on-Four radio documentary, 30 May 2006

'Computer says no' to Mr Blair's botched £20bn NHS upgrade - Sunday Telegraph, 4 June 2006

Granger: bricks of the digital NHS coming together - Richard Granger interview, E-Health Insider, 16 June 2006

Information Governance in NHS's NPfIT: A case for Policy Specification - Moritz Y. Becker, Microsoft Research (To appear in International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2006.)

eHealth is Worth it - An assessment of "The economic benefits of implemented eHealth solutions at ten European sites" (European Commission, Directorate General Information Society and Media, ICT for Health Unit, September 2006)

Dying for Data Subtitle: "A comprehensive system of electronic medical records promises to save lives and cut health care costs—but how do you build one?" (Robert N. Charette. IEEE Spectrum, Oct 2006)

‘Gung-ho' attitude scuppers public-sector IT projects (Computer Weekly, 2 Oct 2006) - "Government IT heads’ ‘gung-ho’ and reckless attitudes to risk is wasting millions of taxpayer money on over-complex, poorly tested systems, according to a think-tank study. Contrary to the stereotype, many public-sector managers have a ‘reckless streak’ and are dazzled by the potential of the technology, according to the Where next for transformational government? report by The Work Foundation, (September 2006)"