IBM Watson’s social care deal with NW London local authority
IBM’s Watson Health has moved into UK social care, with the machine learning company signing a ten-year agreement with Harrow Council to help deliver personal care budgets.
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Google Deepmind trial to improve cancer treatment
Google Deepmind has forged yet another NHS partnership, this time to improve head and neck cancer treatment.
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£20m health data project in the north
A multi-million-pound data project to improve health care across the north of England has been unveiled, giving academics new access to anonymised health data.
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Caldicott: future of patient opt-outs a ‘challenge’
Existing schemes to allow patients to opt-out of sharing their health data will not be immediately affected by the third Caldicott report but their future is far from assured.
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Care.data concerns as new platform proposed
A proposal for a new platform for the national collection of confidential patient information is under consideration, as concerns continue that elements of the care.data scheme will be resurrected.
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Campaigners fear care.data plans still live
Parts of the controversial care.data programme could live on but with fewer options for patients to opt-out, MedConfidential has warned.
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Daniel Ray: on direct data flows
The Health and Social Care Information Centre’s new director of data science says it’s time to end central returns; data needs to flow faster and it needs to flow straight from local to national systems.
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CQC calls for national risk assessment model and data set
The Care Quality Commission has called for national action on the risk models and data sets that underpin initiatives to keep people out of hospital, in a report that says current integrated care initiatives are struggling.
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Care.data dumped after Caldicott review
The controversial care.data programme has been killed off following the release of Dame Fiona Caldicott’s report recommending sweeping changes to NHS data security.
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An organisation with a memory: what needs to change?
James Titcombe OBE, Patient Safety Specialist at Datix and patient safety campaigner, looks at some of the key issues involved with a continued excellence in care. Here we discuss Sir Liam Donaldson’s seminal 2000 report ‘An organisation with a memory’.
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