Data loss prompts Dudley to spend on security
The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust will spend £135,000 on new computer security software, following the theft of a laptop containing personal information on over 5,000 outpatients. A trust spokesperson confirmed to E-Health Insider that following a board meeting called to discuss the theft of the laptop, the trust has decided to purchase and […]
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NHS London orders data transfer review
All deliveries of patient information in London have been halted, and the chief executive of NHS London has begun a review of data transfer arrangements after a CD containing details of 160,000 children was lost. The encrypted CD containing names addresses and dates of birth was lost in transit from BT to St Leonard’s Hospital, […]
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Security clampdown on NSTS batch deliveries
A clampdown on deliveries of unencrypted data sent by regular mail services has been announced by the NHS Strategic Tracing Service (NSTS). The action announced by Connecting for Health, which is responsible for the NSTS, follows the now-notorious incident in which 25m personal records were lost in transit between HM Revenue and Customs and the […]
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Losing patient data may become a crime
The court should be able to prosecute doctors who have laptops containing unencrypted patient information stolen from their cars, according to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO has put forward proposals to the Ministry of Justice that will mean that it would be a criminal offence to “knowingly or recklessly” flout data protection rules […]
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3G Doctor launches videophone consultations
Patients in the UK and Ireland can now access a self-created medical record on their mobile phone, and also have a video consultation with a doctor using a 3G smartphone. The service, launched by 3G Doctor, allows registered individuals to create a web-based health record and video consult with a doctor using a 3G video […]
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Patient records found on drive sold on eBay
Most internet pharmacies unregulated
The majority of online drug retail websites operate without proper credentials and lack e-commerce security features, according to new research by brand protections specialists MarkMonitor.
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Concern about USB sticks used for handovers
The security of data stored on USB sticks has been called into question following the theft of a stick containing unprotected confidential patient details at the Nottingham University Hospitals Trust. Around a third of junior doctors currently use universal serial bus (USB) sticks as a means of saving and storing patient data, to pass on […]
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BT opts for Blue Coat to accelerate net content on N3
Secure content and application delivery specialists, Blue Coat Systems, have been selected to provide their proxy platform appliances to accelerate internet content to the N3 broadband network, maintained by BT. The company has been deploying new proxy platform appliances with BT for the last six to nine months to accelerate content to the millions of […]
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Cancer case repository launched to aid research
A new cancer case repository that is able to extract information from the wide variety of sources in an electronic healthcare record and make them available to academic researchers and clinicians has been launched as the first major output of the Clinical e-Science Framework (CLEF). Professor Alan Rector, director of CLEF, an e-Science project funded […]
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