Call to scrap ‘illegal’ NHS patient database
A quarter of all government databases, including NHS Detailed Care Records Service and NHS CRS Secondary Uses Service, are illegal and should be scrapped or redesigned, a major new report on government databases has claimed. Serious concerns are also raised about the NHS Summary Care Record Service, and its potential for abuse, with an independent […]
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Software replaces fax and phone organ allocation
NHS Blood and Transplant is preparing to roll out a new software system to speed up the process of allocating organs for transplant.
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Google joins Continua e-health alliance
Google has joined Continua Health Alliance, the Intel-led international coalition working to develop standards to enable interoperable e-health products and services for the personal health market.
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EHI’s news roundup 25.07.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week ending 25 July 2008 featuring supplier news and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news Norfolk NHS website struck by Asprox virus The personal details of thousands of internet users who visited several key government and consumer websites are at risk because of a new form […]
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Six trusts win awards for safety and quality
Healthcare intelligence specialists CHKS Group has presented six NHS trusts across Great Britain with awards recognising outstanding achievement in patient safety, quality of care and data quality. Four trusts across Britain were awarded for excellence in clinical coding – East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust for England, NHS Tayside for Scotland, Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust […]
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Privacy fear over NHS card loss
Thousands of NHS computer ‘smartcards’ used to give access to confidential patient records have gone missing.
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Suspended doctor wins apology over share record
A junior doctor suspended by her employers for five years after objecting to her private medical records being given to researchers, has won a High Court battle forcing her employers to apologise to her in an open court session. The case highlights problems in the lack of patient consent in determining whether their records can […]
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Opposition calls for rethink on data storage
The debate over healthcare data security took a political turn as the opposition called on the government to change its plans for central data storage.
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After the security storm
Data security experts believe the recent HMRC recent data disaster holds vital lessons for the health service, EHI editor Linda Davidson reports.
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Major overhaul for Addenbrooke’s theatre system
Addenbrooke’s Hospital is upgrade its TheatreMan theatre management system to improve both the day-to-day information available to clinicians and longer term planning. The flagship Cambridge teaching hospital was previously using a dated UNIX version of TheatreMan, which was not in line with other IT developments, and will now to move to the Windows version of the system. […]
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