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Bitcoin tech applied to clinical trial documents

The blockchain technology that underpins the virtual currency Bitcoin has been applied to clinical trial documents, to see if it can stop them being altered to make it look as if medicines are more effective than they are.

56 Dean Street fined ÂŁ180,000 by ICO

The 56 Dean Street clinic in London’s Soho has been fined £180,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office after an email blunder led to the leak of almost 800 email addresses of patients who attended HIV clinics.

Harlow hospital pays ÂŁ1.8m EPR-related fine

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust has paid a ÂŁ1.8 million fine for breaching the 52-week target for treating patients, which it put down to problems with its implementation of the Cosmic electronic patient record.

Healthcare IT news in brief

This week’s round-up includes the news that Gloucestershire Hospitals has again delayed its TrakCare EPR go-live and North Staffordshire hopes to deploy CSC’s Lorenzo EPR in 2017.

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