Eleven years after the National Programme for IT was abandoned at an established cost of £12.7 billion and a probable cost of nearly £20 billion, the vision of a paperless NHS once again looms closer.
Category: Technology
Removing support for Internet Explorer (IE) 9 & 10
From this week the PKB web application will no longer support Internet Explorer versions below 11. We had previously removed support for version 8. We
Development at PKB: managing your environment in a remote team
This post is part of a series about software development at Patients Know Best. Our company is fully distributed, which means we don’t have an office. We are
PKB goes live with home mass registration
In May, PKB’s first customer went live with mass registration through home letters. This is part of PKB’s letter-savings program: when patients switch receiving letters
Speeding up PKB’s decryption and upgrading encryption
From this week, new data in PKB will display faster and be locked up more securely. A quick reminder about PKB’s security: we encrypt each
Lessons from PowerPoint for patient-controlled records
The story of the struggle of PowerPoint’s founders (free PDF) is fascinating to read. As with many stories of extraordinary technology success the beginning was