Contact-tracing app U-turn ‘shouldn’t distract from wider data concerns’
Professor Eerke Boiten raised concerns about the companies with “strong political connections” that have access to the data.
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The importance of data in the fight against coronavirus
Jem Rashbass, director of master registries and data at NHS Digital, explores why data has been a key role in the fight against coronavirus.
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NHSX denies conflict of interest over DeepMind founder’s advisory role
Mustafa Suleyman was approached by NHSX to help the organisation explore how best to collect patient data, including the use of Google’s Cloud products.
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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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NHSX must be ‘upfront’ about contact-tracing app, privacy group says
The app, developed by NHSX, is currently being trialled in the North of England. Digital Health News understands it is using Bluetooth to trace symptoms.
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NHS partners with tech giants to develop Covid-19 data platform
The platform connects the Government and other national organisations responsible for coordinating the UK’s response to “secure, reliable and timely data”.
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Criado-Perez: Men are not a standard women fail to live up to
The first rule of the gender data gap, Criado-Perez tells us in a light-hearted and often funny talk on a serious subject, is that it’s not a conspiracy.
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Alzheimer’s Research UK launches data initiative to help spot early signs
An initiatiave, which will analyse clinical and digital health data to develop early fingerprints of diseases like Alzheimer’s, has been launched.
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Medical data automation for safer and more productive care at Wirral University Teaching Hospital
Medical data automation for safer and more productive care, how Wirral’s ICU nurses are benefiting from medical device integration.
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Caroline Criado-Perez to examine gender data bias at Rewired keynote
Caroline’s keynote on 4 March will examine the unconscious biases that emerge from the gender data gaps in healthcare, technology and society as a whole.
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