Former Accenture MD appointed as NHS Resolution’s first CIO
A not-for-profit part of the NHS which provides expertise to the health service to help resolve concerns fairly has appointed its first CIO.
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Barts Health CIO portrait included in NHS birthday celebrations
A portrait of the CIO at Barts Health NHS Trust is to be showcased across the country as part of the NHS birthday celebration.
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Digital Health Unplugged: Contact-tracing app U-turn
Join senior reporter Andrea Downey, editor Hannah Crouch, and editor-in-chief Jon Hoeksma as they look at the reasons behind the U-turn.
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NHS Digital CEO named as one of the Global Top 100 Data Visionaries
Sarah Wilkinson has been named as one of the Global Top 100 Data Visionaries by HotTopics for the work she overseen at NHS Digital during Covid-19.
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Contact-tracing app U-turn ‘shouldn’t distract from wider data concerns’
Professor Eerke Boiten raised concerns about the companies with “strong political connections” that have access to the data.
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‘Clinically unsafe’ Health Help Now app set to be deleted
Health Help Now will no longer be available to users from the end of June following the decision to decommission the service.
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British Gas volunteers who delivered telehealth equipment thanked
Liverpool CCG and a telehealth provider have thanked volunteers from British Gas who helped deliver equipment across the city during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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E-prescribing go-live at Somerset NHS FT goes ‘Better’ than expected
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with Better’s e-prescribing and medications management solution across its surgical services.
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Reassurance on privacy of contact-tracing app remains ‘crucial’
Harriet Harman, chair of the joint human rights committee, has written to Matt Hancock requesting further information on how data will be used by the app.
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Mobile health apps news in brief
This month’s mobile apps news round-up features news that the majority of UK people believe their contact-tracing data will be used for other purposes.
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