Digital Health Unplugged: Data and accountability in the NHS
Join the panel as they discuss concerns around using patient data to trace corornavirus and the steps the NHS needs to take to ensure privacy.
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Covid-19: NHS contact-tracing app launched in Isle of Wight
The contact-tracing app will form part of the next phase of the governments test and trace approach to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
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UK Biobank collating Covid-19 data for future research purposes
The team, led by chief executive Sir Rory Collins, will develop a resource for 15,000 approved researchers from 85 countries using datasets provided by PHE.
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GCHQ granted powers over NHS IT systems during Covid-19 outbreak
GCHQ was granted additional powers by Matt Hancock, allowing them to request anything “relating to the security of any network and information system”.
Cyber Security
Covid-19: BAME data must not become ‘hot potato too difficult to confront’
The Shuri Network called for a “stronger focus” from leaders to address inequalities following anaylsis that revealed disproportionate BAME deaths.
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Manchester’s Nightingale hospital goes live with Patientrack
Patientrack alerts doctors and nurses when a patients vital signs are deteriorating, letting them know if they need urgent attention.
Clinical Software
NHSX differs with Apple and Google over contact-tracing app
NHSX has chosen to take a ‘centralised’ approach to collecting data on potential Covid-19 contacts, compared to Apple and Google’s ‘decentralised’ approach.
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Clinical IT supplier Microtest acquired by venture firm PUBLIC
Cornwall-based Microtest has worked closely with the NHS to provide primary care software in England, Scotland and Wales.
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NHSX sets up ethics advisory board to oversee contact-tracing app
The panel will be led by Professor Sir Jonathan Montgomery, of University College London. He was previously head of the Nuffield Council on bioethics.
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Failure of NHS to share Covid-19 data ‘exasperating’, council chief says
Councils are struggling to access lists of “shielded” patients despite Cabinet Office rules stating they should have access, a council chief says.
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