Covid-19: NHS contact-tracing app launched in Isle of Wight
The contact-tracing app will form part of the next phase of the governments test and trace approach to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
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Advanced helping self-isolating clinicians take NHS 111 calls from home
Advanced has helped clinicians in self isolation to continue to take NHS 111 calls after it extended its patient management system, Adastra.
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UK Biobank collating Covid-19 data for future research purposes
The team, led by chief executive Sir Rory Collins, will develop a resource for 15,000 approved researchers from 85 countries using datasets provided by PHE.
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GCHQ granted powers over NHS IT systems during Covid-19 outbreak
GCHQ was granted additional powers by Matt Hancock, allowing them to request anything “relating to the security of any network and information system”.
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Covid-19: BAME data must not become ‘hot potato too difficult to confront’
The Shuri Network called for a “stronger focus” from leaders to address inequalities following anaylsis that revealed disproportionate BAME deaths.
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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.
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NHS Digital CEO says healthcare tech is ‘here to stay’ after Covid-19
Sarah Wilkinson has said some healthcare technology which has been rolled out at scale in response to the Covid-19 outbreak is “here to stay”.
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NHSX differs with Apple and Google over contact-tracing app
NHSX has chosen to take a ‘centralised’ approach to collecting data on potential Covid-19 contacts, compared to Apple and Google’s ‘decentralised’ approach.
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NHSX CEO dismisses private sector involvement in contact-tracing app
Matthew Gould has said he wants to “knock on the head” any suggestion that data from the NHS contact-tracing app will be shared with the private sector.
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University Hospital Southampton staff using Teams for Covid-19 results
Staff at University Hospital Southampton are using Microsoft Teams on their mobile phones to quickly find out who has Covid-19 and who does not.
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