Data analytics can boost mental healthcare – trust CEO
Data analytics will be crucial to improving the delivery of mental healthcare and demonstrating the need for investment in it, a trust chief executive has argued.
Infrastructure
New service to untangle data in NHS trusts
NHS trusts and healthcare organisations now have access to a service for consolidating their data in readiness for General Data Protection Regulation.
Digital Patient 5
GDE profile: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
In the first of a new series of Global Digital Exemplar profiles, Digital Health focuses on Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where home grown apps and sophisticated analysis of data are at the core of digital strategy.
Feature 2
GP statistics available to public through new data hub
NHS Digital have created GP Data Hub allowing for patients to get statistics relating to their practice. It will cover GP practices from across England.
Digital Patient 3
National Data Guardian to review health data sharing on illegal immigrants
Dame Fiona Caldicott, the National Data Guardian, will be meeting health and Home Office officials to discuss controversial data scheme for catching illegal immigrants at the point of care.
Analytics 4
Data ‘fundamentally broken’ at St George’s
The south west London trust is concerned about patient safety as it outlines issues with unreliable data, fragile IT infrastructure and ransomware attacks.
Analytics
Predictions for the year ahead: UK digital health leaders on 2017
In the second part of a two-part look ahead to 2017, Digital Health News asked some UK digital health leaders for their predictions for the year to come.
Feature
New joint data chief at CQC and NHS Improvement
A new role has been created to ensure data consistency across the Care Quality Commission and NHS Improvement.
Analytics
IT contributing to ‘missed opportunities’ on NHS deaths
Preventable deaths are going unrecorded in the NHS, and disjointed IT systems are partly to blame, according to a Care Quality Commission report.
Interoperability
Discount Apple Watch offered for health data
A private insurer is offering UK customers super cheap Apple Watches with its policies but there’s a catch (or two).
Digital Patient