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NHS Covid-19 app to share user’s venue check-in data

The update to the NHS Covid-19 app is due to be rolled out before venues including non-essential shops, gyms and
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Palantir’s contract ‘won’t be extended without public consultation’

Foxglove and openDemocracy have announced the government ā€œconcededā€ it would not offer Palantir a long-term role in the NHS without
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Child health records set to be digitised earlier than planned

Working with NHSX the government is bringing forward work to digitise the records, which contain babiesā€™ information about their growth
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Digital innovation must be ‘at heart’ of healthcare reform

Public Policy Projects called on the government to use digital innovation to better enable collaboration across the NHS and social
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Interoperability should not come at cost of “transparent” procurement

Integrated care systems will need to have interoperability embedded if true joined up health and care is to be achieved,
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NHS overhaul: ‘Real opportunity’ for digital leaders to shape the future

The chair of Digital Health's CCIO Network has said government plans to overhaul the NHS provide "real opportunity" for digital
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Government announces plans to reform NHS for more joined up care

The NHS reform will ā€œmodernise the legal frameworkā€ to make the health system ā€œfit for the futureā€, according to a
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Call for audit of social care to create ‘roadmap’ for digitisation

According to TechUK social care has been a ā€œpolicy no manā€™s landā€ with attempts to find sustainable models often proving
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Poor data flows ‘throttled’ timely response to Covid-19

Parliamentā€™s Science and Technology Committee labelled the speed at which public health data was first made available ā€œunacceptableā€.
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An alternative (re)view of NHS Digital and NHSX

In a column for Digital Health News under an alias, David Boyd, provides some suggestions for the upcoming Wade-Gery review
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