Experts react to government’s U-turn on contact-tracing app
Industry leaders said the government should ensure ethics and privacy are “correct by design” in its new contact-tracing app.
News
BCS: Scientific modelling codes should meet independent standards
The computer code behind the scientific modelling of epidemics should meet independent professional standards to ensure public trust, BCS has argued.
AI and Analytics
BCS survey reveals contact-tracing app skepticism
A survey carried out by BCS has revealed less than a one quarter of its members think the NHS contact-tracing app will be effective on containing Covid-19.
AI and Analytics
Privacy measures need to be in place if contact-tracing apps are to work
Those making Covid-19 tracing apps need to have the right privacy measures in place if they are to convince the public to use them, a BCS report has said.
Digital Patient
CHIME launches UK chapter in ‘landmark agreement’ with BCS
BCS members will be able to access CHIME’s online materials and gain admission to the member organisation’s healthcare CIO qualification programme.
Health CIO
Four medical students share in new digital health technology bursary
The bursary is a joint initiative between BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT and DRIVE, Great Ormond Street Hospital’s new health technology unit.
Digital Patient
Digital Health and BCS partner on Rewired
The pair are extending an existing collaboration to include Digital Health Rewired, a two-day conference and one-day exhibition taking place in March 2019.
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Another View: Of conference season
It must be conference season: Neil Paul has attended three separate meetings in almost as many weeks. As our GP columnist reflects on each – the EMIS National User Group, a panel on entrepreneurship in healthcare IT, and a BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group meeting – he sees causes for both optimism and concern.
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Digital Health and BCS partner on developing current and future digital leaders
Digital Health will work with BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, on a series of events designed to further develop and raise the profile of health informatics leaders and digital health as an emerging profession and discipline.
News
PCS Speaker Profile: Professor Carsten Maple on the evolution of cyber threats
Professor Carsten Maple will address emerging threats, including from the internet of things, in his presentation at Public Cyber Security, 7 December. In the first of our profiles of speakers at the event, Maple talks to Vivienne Raper about the cyber security threats facing public services, and suggests how the NHS could better have handled WannaCry.
Cyber Security