Open data could add £216bn to UK economy
A move towards open data could add £216 billion to the UK economy by 2017, says a joint report by NHS England and OpenGovLab.
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EHI Interview: Professor Jim Davies
Rebecca Todd talks to the chief technology officer for Genomics England about why the project to link 100,000 genomes to electronic health records has been hailed as “bigger than the internet.”
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Genomics England to manage data-linkage
The government has created a new organisation to work on a project to sequence 100,000 genomes and link these to electronic health records.
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Common standards for US-UK tech services
The UK and US are working on common standards for technology services that will help UK health IT companies expand into the US market, NHS England’s director of patients and information has revealed.
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Hunt talks up NHS IT projects in US
The government’s plan to sequence 100,000 human genomes and link these to electronic health records will be “as significant as the founding of the Internet”, health secretary Jeremy Hunt told a US audience yesterday.
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Hunt sells UK as global health tech hub
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is selling the UK as a “global hub of health technology” at the Health Datapalooza conference in Washington today.
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