Other Documents
From Nhs It Info
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)
Announcement of the launch of UK's National Health Informatics Collection - consisting of over 1,000 global titles and conference papers
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)
Green Book, Appraisal and evaluation in central government (16 Jan 2003) - "Information is needed for a market to operate efficiently. Buyers need to know the quality of the good or service to judge the value of the benefit it can provide. Sellers, lenders and investors need to know the reliability of a buyer, borrower or entrepreneur. This information must be available fully to both sides of the market, and where it is not, market failure may result. This is known as 'asymmetry of information' and can arise in situations where, for example, sellers have information that buyers don't (or vice versa) about some aspect of product or service quality. Information asymmetry can restrict the quality of the good traded, resulting in 'adverse selection'. Another possible situation is where a contract or relationship places incentives upon one party to take (or not take) unobservable steps that are prejudicial to another party. This is known as 'moral hazard', an example of which is the tendency of people with insurance to reduce the care they take to avoid or reduce insured losses." [The CfH team admitted at our meeting in April that there was a considerable amount that they did not know about the technical details of the systems they were buying. Indeed, the whole nature of output-based specification (OBS) seems to ensure information asymmetry and moral hazard as defined below.]
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)
Transformational Government: Enabled by Technology - a Cabinet Office Report (Nov 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)
Guidance for NHS Foundation Trusts on Co-operating with the National Programme for Information Technology - Monitor, Independent Regulator of NHS Trusts (12 April 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.)
Plundering_The_Public_Sector - extracts from the book by David Craig, provided here with the author's and publisher's permission.
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)"
What CfH Could and Should Learn from Defence Procurement - by Malcolm Mills (October 2006)
IT and Modernisation - New Statesman Round Table Discussion (9 Oct 2006)
