Healthcare IT news round-up
This month’s industry round-up includes two UK based students entering a global medical hackathon, Brexit causing health data fears and a Liverpool hospital showing off its technology in the Middle East.
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This month’s industry round-up includes two UK based students entering a global medical hackathon, Brexit causing health data fears and a Liverpool hospital showing off its technology in the Middle East.
TPP has confirmed it is piloting new functionality in its SystmOne electronic patient record, with a view to addressing data protection concerns raised by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
Further work is needed to establish how the consent process might appropriately cover data sharing in genetic and genomic medicine, a new paper from the National Data Guardian (NDG) has argued.
IT systems are said to have returned to normal after a malware attack which affected a “small number of systems” at NHS Lanarkshire Health Board last Friday (25 August).
There has been an increase in the use of connected care technologies in UK healthcare in the last 12 months, according to a new report commissioned by Philips.
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust patients take advantage of new digital appointment letter service contributing to a decline in DNA rates.
Cambridge’s MyChart, the first and only patient portal in the UK to be directly integrated with an electronic patient record, has over 300 active users

Manchester Metropolitan University will promote AI for business and the development of wearable health technologies
Today’s briefing features research into growing distrust in healthcare AI and a partnership between the
Nirav Patel, head of demand and delivery for the NHS FDP, has said the platform
NHS England is recruiting for a chief digital information officer (CDIO) for its new online

Powys Teaching Health Board (PTHB) has gone live an electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA)