Health and Social Care secretary Steve Barclay has announced £21m funding for the NHS, ahead of the 75th anniversary of its founding by the post-war Labour government. The funding is said to be for patient diagnosis using artificial intelligence (AI) software. According to the government, NHS Trusts will be able to apply to an “AI Diagnostic […]
What is an iPad? The iPad is a touchscreen tablet PC made by Apple. The original iPad debuted in 2010. Apple has four iPad product lines: iPad, iPad mini, iPad Air and iPad Pro. All models are available in a variety of colors. They run Apple iPadOS mobile operating system (OS) and have Wi-Fi and […]
Generative or conversational artificial intelligence (AI) tools have attracted a lot of attention, as well as some controversy, as applications such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard create human-like responses to queries or prompts. These apps draw on large databases of content and raise questions around intellectual property, privacy and security. In this article, […]
Ever since organisations started pushing employees to “program” macros into Excel, the idea of “citizen developers” has taken root. On one level, there’s a lot of sense in it – why force software tools and processes onto employees across multiple departments, assuming they all work the same way? Software has always needed tweaking and […]
Users of the NHS’s patient record care have three months to switch to the latest system or face being unable to access critical information. About 115,000 health and care professionals, as well as 15,000 different organisations, currently use the NHS Summary Care Record application (SCRa), but the system will be shut down on 30 […]
The search for a new CIO to oversee digital technology at NHS England is now over. The NHS in England has been in search of a new CIO following the announcement that it would be merging with NHS Digital, which saw the then CIO Simon Bolton leaving the organisation, citing “personal reasons” in a tweet. […]
Lancaster University is gearing up to launch a new MBA programme via its Lancaster University Management School (LUMS), delivering cyber security leadership education to business executives. Developed with input from cyber consultancy Templar Executives, the university believes the course will be a “unique proposition” and has just secured backing and certification from the UK’s […]
Students and staff members at the University of Manchester, which was hit by a cyber attack earlier in June, are receiving emails from the threat actor behind the incident threatening to sell or expose their personal data imminently if a ransom is not paid. In the email, a copy of which has been obtained […]
The National Employment Savings Trust (Nest) has extended its outsourcing contract with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for another decade. It has been a TCS customer since 2011, when the auto-enrolment pension scheme was first launched by the UK government. TCS took responsibility for end-to-end administration services across the scheme, building a greenfield operation with […]
Lloyds Banking Group is opening a tech centre in the Indian city of Hyderabad as part of its digital transformation, with plans to recruit 600 data and cyber security specialists. The operation, which will open this year, is part of Lloyds Bank’s strategy to improve the customer experience through technology as more people rely […]