Joe’s view: of consent models
Joe McDonald has been thinking about retirement. But first he wants to defeat psychosis, which means gathering lots of data, which means getting the consent model right, which means starting with the Great North Care Record…
CCIO Network
Caldicott 3: Easy to say, hard to do?
Dame Fiona Caldicott’s latest report wanted a ‘simple’ way for patients to have their data opt-out wishes recorded across the health and care system. As Jennifer Trueland discovers, finding a technical solution to do that may be anything but.
Cyber Security
Data breaches ongoing as NHS Digital pushes opt-outs
Patients who opted out of sharing their data beyond direct care have not yet had their wishes respected, as NHS Digital chases up organisations slow to destroy data.
AI and Analytics
£20m health data project in the north
A multi-million-pound data project to improve health care across the north of England has been unveiled, giving academics new access to anonymised health data.
AI and Analytics
NHS Digital shuffles transformation targets
NHS Digital has accidentally published a whole lot of targets for digital transformation, from patient consent opt-outs to de-identification services.
News
Care.data concerns as new platform proposed
A proposal for a new platform for the national collection of confidential patient information is under consideration, as concerns continue that elements of the care.data scheme will be resurrected.
AI and Analytics
First Digital Health Cyber Security Summit this month
New national speakers have been added to the programme for the first Digital Health Cyber Security Summit that will be held on 25 August at the Royal Society of Medicine in London.
Cyber Security
Campaigners fear care.data plans still live
Parts of the controversial care.data programme could live on but with fewer options for patients to opt-out, MedConfidential has warned.
AI and Analytics
Care.data: gone but not forgotten
Care.data has been officially dead for more than a month, but its legacy is far from buried. Ben Heather takes another look at the devil in the detail of the Caldicott 3 report.
Cyber Security
Dan Taylor: what data security can learn from Euro 2016
Oh, Roy Hodgson. The Hawthorns will always love you, England will just want to forget, but the NHS should learn from you. In data security, as in football, as in life, leadership can really make a difference.
Cyber Security