 rhone81 Scooby Slapper
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 Posted: 00:11 - 07 May 2009 Post subject: It's fine, your personal data is safe... |
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The NHS is currently implementing a system where patient information is held electronically and can be shared throughout departments and regions:
"NHS Connecting for Health supports the NHS in providing better, safer care, by delivering computer systems and services that improve how patient information is stored and accessed."
https://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/
Meanwhile in the USA, a similar system with 8 million patient records was hacked and held to ransom:
wikileaks
Washington Post
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 Mushroom Nearly there...
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 pa_broon74 World Chat Champion

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Working as I do for the NHS I can exclusively reveal that while the C for H helpdesk is very helpful, the whole thing is one huge big cluster fuck just waiting to happen.
For example, part of C for H is providing a new email system for the entire NHS. They've plumped for an OWA based system moving away from the desktop driven application to web mail accessed via IE.
Some commitee in its infinite wisdom decided on an inbox limit of 200mb... They've made it impossible to archive anything, you can't forward any email's out of the network and you can't save them.
No one knows why, all we can guess is that who ever came to this ridiculous conclusion has since left the organisation and no one has the balls to say 'Hold on a minute. this is really fucking stupid...'
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 UrbanRacer World Chat Champion

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