Intellect Blog

From ‘The Power of Information’ to the power of clinicians

Jon Lindberg — Mon, 21 May 2012 16:56:43 +0000

Last week Intellect was invited to the ‘North east clinical health information forum annual conference’ up in sunny Sedgefield to run two workshops with 150+ NHS staff. The first we ran aimed to get the views from front-line clinicians on how they perceive and use technology. We were both fortunate and unfortunate that the attendees were all [...]

Beyond data standardisation – fixing the ‘plumbing’ of the financial system

Ben Wilson — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:33:43 +0000

Analysts Aite Group have today stated that they expect spending on Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) by financial institutions to reach $197.5m in 2015, up from $77.6m in 2010. In itself, this doesn’t represent a significant proportion of a total spend on implementing reforms in the wake of the financial crisis (some may argue it is a conservative estimate) [...]

DCNS Announcement

DCNS — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:36:54 +0000

NOTE – Intellect is helping MOD engage industry with the DCNS programme. The following is a direct extract of the most recent Blog from Cdre Jamie Hay RN who is the DCNS Programme Director, thus the views below are those directly provided by MOD: There has been plenty going on in the DCNS Programme, so [...]

Intellect talk to BBC Technology Correspondant Rory Cellan-Jones ahead of FES2012

Colin Batten — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:34:41 +0000

With just 5 weeks to go until our annual entertainment summit, I talked to summit chair Rory Cellan-Jones to discover what he’s looking forward to most at this year’s event and what he thinks the biggest trends will be over the next 12 months. CB: What did you enjoy most about last years event and [...]

Changes announced at Intellect main board meeting and AGM, 09 May 2012

Livia Ralph — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:43:33 +0000

Intellect’s Board include top executives from some of the world’s leading high tech organisations. These organisations maximise the contributions technology makes to our lives everyday. There were some changes at the recent Intellect main board meeting and AGM, with Victor Chavez of Thales elected as the new deputy president. David Callaghan was re- elected as [...]

Never mind the ‘recession’, let’s find our niche

Marco Pisano — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:33:57 +0000

Whether or not the recent figures issued by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) revealing that the UK is technically in recession are correct (many economists have questioned the data) is not the main issue at present. Chancellor George Osborne hasn’t yet been successful in tackling the current crisis and steering the UK towards a [...]

eHealth week: frustration over slow progress not only an English symptom

Jon Lindberg — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:05:47 +0000

“How will patients get access to all their information online, sighs doctors, when we can barely get into our own computers?” No, this is not a quote from an article in Pulse, nor from a English doctor in a hospital near you, unless you live in Sweden and read this. This is a quote from an [...]

The GSM mobile is 20 years old this month…a good time to review its impact on mobile innovation.

Raj Sivalingam — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:12:34 +0000

Guest blogger – Stephen Temple, Spectrum policy expert wrote: It is 20 years ago (May 1992) that the very first GSM mobile phone got its official approval certificate. The mobile revolution seems to have happened in a blink of the eye. The arrival of the GSM international standard ushered-in the transformation of the mobile phone. [...]

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto and why might he shake up global payments systems?

Tony Henderson — Fri, 04 May 2012 08:54:19 +0000

If you had invented a global digital currency which had, it is claimed, 100,000 users world-wide and growing, would you wait for fame and fortune to arrive at your door, or would you simply hand the system over to the users and vanish? If you are Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bit Coin the answer is [...]

CISPA: The Future US Cyber Legislation?

joseph.taylor@intellectuk.org — Thu, 03 May 2012 10:03:59 +0000

On Thursday 26 March, the Republican-dominated House of Representatives approved the Cyber Intelligence and Sharing Act (CISPA). CISPA follows, but is distinct from the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) which was met by widespread protest, perhaps most notably from Wikipedia, and ultimately stalled. One of the authors of the bill, Republican representative Mike Rogers, has [...]