Oops! Technician's error wipes out data for state fund
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| Perhaps you've experienced that sinking feeling when a single
| keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping
| out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion.
|
| [...]
|
| Over the next few days, as the department, the division and
| consultants from Microsoft Corp. and Dell Inc. labored to
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| retrieve the data, it became obvious the worst-case scenario
| was at hand.
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/20/lost.data.ap/index.html?eref=rss_tech
No backups, a single keystroke formats a drive... sounds like someone was
logged in as Administrators (Windows) and didn't have access to GNU/Linux
tools like cron/rsync to handle some redundancy.
And more on the NHS mess... They really ought to use Free software, not
Microsoft's buggy and pricey software.
NPfIT delays plunge NHS trusts into the redNPfIT delays plunge NHS trusts
into the red
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| Delays in the implementation of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT)
| have helped plunge some NHS trusts into the red, the public accounts
| committee report has revealed.
|
| [...]
|
| The NHS budget for 2004-05 was £69.7bn, rising to £76.4bn in 2005-06
| and will be £92.6bn in 2007-08. The NHS reported an overall deficit of
| £251m (including foundation trusts) in 2004-05. In 2005-06, the
| overall deficit increased to £570m (£547m excluding foundation
| trusts).
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/20/nhs_trusts_deficits/
Related:
Fujitsu man condemns NPfIT as failure
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| The government's pet technology project, the multi-billion pound NHS
| National Programme for IT (NPfIT), is in danger of failing, lacks
| the leadership required to stop it drifting off course, and is in
| danger of morphing into "a camel", according to a senior figure
| in one of the main contractors implementing the project.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/13/npfit_is_doomed/
NHS Scotland pools budget for Microsoft savings
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| NHS National Services Scotland forecasts it will save up to £8m over
| three years from a new procurement deal with Microsoft
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/30/scottish_nhs_microsoft_procurement_deal/
Microsoft in the NHS
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| Microsoft is one of the key technology firms in the £6.2 billion NHS
| IT programme. It is working particularly closely with iSOFT ...
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http://www.e-health-insider.com/comment_and_analysis/index.cfm?ID=69
Accenture escapes £1bn penalty for NHS walk-out
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| Accenture, the IT and consultancy firm has avoided huge penalty fees for
| withdrawing from the UK National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/29/accenture_nhs_penalty/
Accenture: NHS failure is 'track record for success'
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| After months of negotiations, Accenture handed contracts worth £2bn over
| to rival Computer Sciences Corporation after getting paid just £110m
| for spending a third of the allotted 10 years on the job. Its hand had
| been forced by losses of $450m it was set to make on the deal this
| year.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/09/28/accenture_failure_success/
CfH refutes computer failure claims
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| "Very often they are not major incidents as such, but could be caused when
| a patient administration system is running slow or there may be problems
| with the local network. The severity level is attributed by the user and
| this is subsequently very often down graded or amended."
|
| Many of the incidents that have been reported by CfH include failure of
| the systems used by surgeons to see X-ray pictures on a computer screen
| in wards and operating theatres. On some occasions the system is believed
| to have crashed during an operation, forcing surgeons to suspend the
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| procedure while a hard copy of the X-ray is found.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/19/cfh_defends_itself/
NHS Direct all better
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| NHS Direct is back online this afternoon after going on the sick
| with a server error earlier today.
|
| According to Netcraft, the Windows 2000 server at the bargain
| basement hypochondriac magnet modern, accessible public healthcare
| resource was rebooted today. See here.
|
| Whatever malady did for the box, it was "unexpected", as the message
| on the site explained for most of today.
|
| NHS Direct was unavailable for comment at time of writing.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/10/nhsdirect_back/
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