Archive for October 31st, 2011

UK allocates £10m to new ID scheme

Posted at Monday, October 31st, 2011 by andrew

Tom Espiner writes for ZDNet UK: The UK government has announced funds to ‘lubricate’ its trusted identity scheme, in which citizens authenticate themselves across multiple public services. The ‘Identity Assurance’ single sign-on scheme will get £10m over two years from the government’s £650m cybersecurity budget, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude told a conference in central [...]

Why SCRs are a long-term plan for long-term conditions

Posted at Monday, October 31st, 2011 by andrew

Dick Vinegar writes on the Guardian web site: Who would have thought it, the Department of Health is encouraging NHS organisations “to accelerate creation of summary care records (SCRs), with the aim of having them in place for most patients by 2013-14″. And 9m records have already been uploaded. This is a miracle. At the [...]

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