Cybercrime targeting NHS Trusts took the headlines last month, with figures suggesting that 34 per cent of Trusts across England, Scotland and Wales have experienced ransomware attacks in the last 18 months. Rising technology and capabilities will only fuel this cyber threat, highlighting the essential need to crack down on IT vulnerabilities. The rise of […]
Read more>>Challenging times – moving to a digital NHS
The pressure is on NHS organisations and Trusts to further invest and take strides towards digitalising the NHS. With a society that increasingly relies on technology to conduct or support many daily tasks, the NHS is regarded as lagging behind. But, the NHS has learnt from past mistakes that it needs to take a more […]
Read more>>NHS Systems: Simplify the complex with BDS Solutions
The nature of the National Health Service (NHS), with a multitude of applications and devices and an array of ways in which staff interact with technology, adds significant complication to managing and enhancing the vital systems used by the organisation. However, there is widespread agreement that the NHS must make steps to digitalise and improve […]
Read more>>Modernising HR: Automating Staff Record Management
Obtaining an accurate view of your workforce can be a challenging task in an organisation as large as the National Health Service (NHS). Human Resources (HR) departments must deal with a regular stream of starters, leavers and those changing roles. With a multitude of systems, HR teams are under pressure to ensure staff records are […]
Read more>>With health and care information assets fast becoming a compelling target for cybercrime, how secure is your Active Directory?
Threats of cybercrime are set to intensify over the next year as the uptake of digitisation rises within the public sector. Increasingly clinical workflows must be computerised to drive innovation and the dependency on technology grows. This must happen without compromising either the confidentiality, integrity or availability of patient and corporate data. With Microsoft Active […]
Read more>>Local Administrator Password Solution released by Microsoft
Information security is a complex subject comprised of many layers. A frequently overlooked layer is that of the Local Administrator password. As the name suggests, it is an all-powerful account on all clients and member servers. There are several approaches for the management of Local Administrator passwords within an organisation, however, until recently these have […]
Read more>>Digital Health makes site visit to BDS’s NWSIS headquarters
Ben Heather, News Editor from Digital Health, recently made a visit to the headquarters of the North West Shared Infrastructure Service (NWSIS) to find out why and how this model of connected community infrastructure has worked so well for more than ten years. NWSIS provides proven and tested infrastructure services and a governance model that […]
Read more>>Directory Manager – providing a central hub for Identity Management
Directory Manager helps to streamline workflows and keeps admin time down, as it connects the Electronic Staff Record (ESR), NHSmail and other administrative systems to automatically manage Active Directory, Exchange and other IT software and systems in place. If your NHS organisation has yet to deploy Directory Manager and if you would like to […]
Read more>>Providing HR teams with automated management of email addresses in ESR
Directory Manager is long established as the mechanism used by NHS IT teams to harness data from ESR to manage the creation and update of user accounts in Active Directory. The ESR integration module in Directory Manager has now been extended to provide a two-way relationship between Active Directory and ESR, facilitating an automated update […]
Read more>>The Art of Delivering a Successful Project
To be successful, a project must bring about change, delivered on schedule and within budget. Having worked on numerous assignments during my time at BDS Solutions I would like to share a few guiding principles which have helped us to retain loyal customers by delivering successful projects. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel – Adopting […]
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