Crisis of confidence in care.data – RCGP
The Royal College of General Practitioners has called on NHS England to provide urgent reassurance about the safeguards surrounding its new data-sharing programme, saying it is suffering a “crisis of public confidence”.
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Hunt predicts US-UK ‘single market’
A memorandum of understanding signed by the US and UK will help to create the world’s largest single market for health care applications, the health secretary has said.
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Survey shows readers wary on care.data
Around two thirds of respondents to EHI’s survey on care.data plan to opt themselves out of the data-sharing initiative.
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Davies departure leaves ‘clinical hole’
Clinicians are concerned that the departure of the director of clinical and public assurance from the Health and Social Care Information Centre leaves a “clinical hole” in the organisation.
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Ortivus wins £10m ambulance contract
Two southern ambulance trusts have awarded a £10m contract to Swedish company Ortivus to provide a managed electronic care record service over four years.
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Re-identifying care.data illegal
There is a “theoretical risk” that data released to researchers from the care.data programme could be used to re-identify patients, but this would be a criminal offence, NHS England’s director of patients and information has said.
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NHS will be dependent on EHRs – Hunt
The health service will become “totally dependent” on electronic health records over the next five years, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
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CQC highlights record access problems
Princess Royal University Hospital in Bromley must urgently address problems with access to medical records, England’s chief inspector of hospitals has said.
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HSCIC strategy focuses on integration
The Health and Social Care Information Centre’s strategy for 2013-15 puts a new emphasis on the need to support integration between health and social care.
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Digitising expenses saves trust money
An NHS Trust saved 20% on its expenses spend after digitising its claims process using Expenses Health.
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