Microtest’s Guru sees wisdom in MIG
Microtest has signed a contract with Healthcare Gateway to share data from its Guru system via the Medical Interoperability Gateway, with work at a pilot site starting next month.
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EU ministers back data privacy changes
The European Union has provisionally agreed changes to planned data privacy legislation that will make it easier to share data between health and social care services.
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West London CCGs work on data sharing
An alliance of West London clinical commissioning groups is developing a memorandum of understanding to improve data sharing between the area’s GP practices.
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Scottish data share plan survives vote
Scottish government plans to share data from a central NHS database with other public bodies have narrowly survived a Holyrood vote.
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Bristol joins up pathology
Three Bristol NHS Trust and Public Health England have signed a contract with Capita and CliniSys for its integrated laboratory information system across the region.
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West Cornwall to pilot record sharing
Eight GP practices in West Cornwall will pilot a data sharing scheme using Microtest’s Guru to allow local A&E clinicians and the local out-of-hours GP service with access to patients’ GP records.
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Bristol trusts to share images
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust has completed its pilot of Connect and Share, an extension to Burnbank’s Image Exchange Portal, and has now begun a full implementation.
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Wolverhampton shares info on diabetics
GPs and diabetes specialists in Wolverhampton are sharing information via Graphnet’s CareCentric portal.
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Care.data delayed
NHS England has announced a delay to the start of care.data extractions to allow more time to build public confidence in the scheme.
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Re-identifying care.data illegal
There is a “theoretical risk” that data released to researchers from the care.data programme could be used to re-identify patients, but this would be a criminal offence, NHS England’s director of patients and information has said.
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