HSCIC actions 1.2m patient opt-outs
More than 1.2 million people will have their objection to having their identifiable health data shared for purposes other than direct care actioned by the Health and Social Care Information Centre this week.
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NHS England publishes ‘mixed’ picture of digital maturity
NHS England has published data on a series of self-reported digital maturity measures for 239 NHS trusts.
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Wirral brings Cerner population management to UK
Wirral Partners, one of the government’s Vanguard projects, will be the first customer for Cerner’s HealtheIntent population health management platform outside the US.
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GP IT system failings force govt review of Atos contracts
The Cabinet Office will review all of the government’s high-value technology contracts with Atos following serious failings identified with the company’s development of the GP Extraction Service.
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Hospital transparency league table published
NHS improvement has published a league table of NHS trusts according to their openness and transparency.
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Ipswich battles winter pressures with BI tool
A winter pressures business intelligence tool developed at Ipswich Hospital with Medeanalytics is providing an early warning system for capacity shortfalls and enabling the trust to develop alternative provision.
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Ray takes up HSCIC director of data science role
Informatics specialist Daniel Ray will be the new director of data science at the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
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Stats tool tracks quality improvement
A specialist cancer hospital has helped to develop a statistical tool for clinicians to track quality improvement.
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HSCIC plans big data centre of excellence
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is to set up a Centre of Excellence for Big Data and Data Science with the Department of Health and the Cabinet Office.
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Legal view: sharing is daring?
Christopher Air and Eleanor Tunnicliffe from DAC Beachcroft consider the vexed issue of information sharing between NHS organisations from the perspective of what the law says.
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