HSCIC reviews HES access
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is reviewing access to the Hospital Episode Statistics and other national datasets.
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HSCIC admits to four HES data breaches
The Health and Social Care Information centre has admitted to repeated data breaches involving the Hospital Episode Statistics.
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Pseudo at source review for care.data
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has launched a steering group to “help guide” its possible use of pseudonymisation at source for care.data.
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HSCIC publishes data audit
The Health and Social Care Information Centre approved 459 data releases to 160 organisations between April and December last year, an audit report reveals.
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Joe’s view of care.data
Joe McDonald wonders why the powers behind the care.data programme thought they could push it through on an opt-out model, when all the evidence suggests that explicit consent is essential for big data schemes.
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Care.data advisory group announced
NHS England has set up an independent advisory group to improve governance around the care.data programme.
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Kelsey admits care.data use unclear
NHS England delayed the care.data programme because it could not give guarantees on how the data would be used, NHS England’s director of patients and information has said.
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HSCIC to audit data releases by 2 April
The Health and Social Care Information Centre will take four weeks to audit the data releases of its predecessor, the NHS Information Centre, following intense public scrutiny of the bodies to which it released patient information.
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HES data handled in Google cloud
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has spent another day fire-fighting concerns about care.data, following reports that different companies had uploaded Hospital Episode Statistics to Google and made HES data publically available.
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A bad week in the bunker for care.data
EHI editor Jon Hoeksma reflects on another difficult week for NHS England’s flagship open data project, and its champion Tim Kelsey.
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