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Dr Maryam Mehrnezhad, from the information security department at Royal Holloway smiling
11 March 2026

Research highlights privacy concerns around menopause tech

Researchers at Royal Holloway University of London have highlighted privacy and advice concerns surrounding menopause technology.
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Erin Thomson, trainee solicitor in MFMac’s healthcare sector
29 July 2025

Balancing innovation and compliance in FemTech regulation

FemTech apps rely on highly sensitive data. It is in everyone's interests to close the loopholes in regulation, writes Erin
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GP types on a laptop
4 June 2025

AI project to predict health outcomes paused over GP data concern

NHSE has paused development of an AI model capable of predicting future health outcomes after concerns about the use of
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30 April 2025

Birmingham NHS community trust chooses WALLIX PAM to secure and monitor remote access

To protect patient data and systems, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust adopted WALLIX PAM.
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26 April 2022

When is your data anonymous?

In a joint piece for Digital Health, Paul Affleck and GP Dr Imran Khan, explore the recent care.data and GPDPR
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2 September 2019

Full power of innovative technologies ‘will not be achieved’ in no-deal Brexit

The warning comes amid concerns there may be delays in sharing health data between the UK and the EU if
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17 July 2019

NHSX CDO tries to quell alarm bells over Alexa partnership

Tara Donnelly confirmed that no patient will be shared with Amazon following an initiative to make healthcare data accessible via
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10 July 2019

Amazon Alexa partnership puts patient data ‘at risk’

A lack of detail about how patient data will be used and stored makes the deal appear like a “crazy
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Two police officers on patrol in high-visibility jackets
26 November 2018

Home Office discussing potentially unlawful access to patient info by police

According to some local medical committees in England, police are using subject access requests to acquire the medical histories of
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25 May 2018

National data opt-out programme comes into force

The national data opt-out programme has been launched, with a view to allowing people to choose how their health data
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