Joe’s View: Consent is dead; long live citizen data sharing preferences
Joe McDonald wasn’t a hobbit in Lord of the Rings, he wasn’t at Wembley to see Geoff Hurst’s winner, but he did see Otis bowl a historic tenfer and he’s now heard Jeremy Hunt promise to put patients in control of data sharing.
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Advisory Series: Portals
For the second of Digital Health Intelligence’s new advisory series, Claire Read looks at how sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) are embracing portals – and considers how the concept is evolving.
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Former NHS employee guilty of snooping on patient records
A former NHS employee at Royal Stoke Hospital has been found guilty in court for snooping on patient records of her neighbours and colleagues.
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Camden integrated care record used by 1,400 staff in 18 months
More than 1,400 health and care professionals in Camden have accessed information via a shared care record since the system went live last year.
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IT issues causes 22,000 undelivered letters at Worcestershire Acute
IT issues have caused 22,000 hospital letters not to be sent to GPs at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, with an investigation underway.
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Privacy and Healthcare Data book explores changing concept of ‘privacy’ and ‘patient control’
Patients should be empowered by “the choice of control” – that is the key message addressed in the newly released industry book, Privacy and Healthcare Data.
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Child Protection Information Sharing delays roll-out deadline
The CP-IS has extended its target date for delivery by more than a year after facing difficulties with funding and technical issues.
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Who are PRSB and what is their role in digital health?
The Professional Record Standards Body was established back in 2013 to develop clinical standards for health and care records.
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NHS digitisation means mail blunder “unlikely” to occur again, Hunt tells Commons
The shift to electronic systems will mean the blunder of 709,000 medical correspondence items not delivered is “unlikely” to occur again, according to Hunt.
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1,700 cases of potential harm from undelivered medical mail
At least 1,700 cases of potential patient harm have been identified after a huge medical correspondence storage blunder, according to a new report by the NAO.
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