Davis: privatising records ‘dangerous’
Former Conservative shadow home secretary David Davis has slammed his own party’s reported plans to hand health records to commercial IT companies as “naïve” and “dangerous.” Writing in The Times yesterday, the MP for Haltemprice and Howden said the first time he read about the policy his “heart sank.” “The policy described was so naïve, […]
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Vaulting ambition
The Conservatives may give commercial health record platforms a big role in their NHS IT strategy. But how are they doing in the US?
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Tories may offer private record stores
Patients may be given the option to transfer their health records to Google or Microsoft personal health record platforms under a Conservative government. According to newspaper reports, patients may be given the option of moving their medical notes to services provided by private companies, such as the US technology giants. Both technology firms have been […]
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Scrap big government IT: think tank
A right-wing think tank has called for more open standards and open source development in IT, arguing this could lead to savings of 50% on government IT expenditure. A paper published by the Centre for Policy Studies – It’s ours. Why we, not the government own our data – dismisses the government’s Transformational Government strategy […]
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Declaration of Rights for health data launched
A high profile coalition of patient advocates, US doctors, software vendors and bloggers have launched a Declaration of Rights for health data, HealthDataRights.org. The new site aims to use social media to build support for increasing patient access to electronic health records. Although launched in the US, HealthDataRights appears universal in its aspirations. The main […]
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HealthSpace expansion plans shelved
The Department of Health has shelved plans for a massive expansion of its personal health record project, HealthSpace.
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Our website could do so much more
GP Dr Neil Paul sees the potential for his practice website to be a one stop shop for patients’ health needs.
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IC boss sets out quality programmes
The chief executive of the Information Centre has claimed that the UK has the potential to have the best technology and information systems in the world “if we continue to stick with it.” He pledged to deliver systems to help achieve this within the next 12-18 months. Exactly one year on from the final report […]
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Google says user data aids flu detection
Google’s co-founder Larry Page has said that the European Commission’s demand for user data to be deleted after six months would prevent the site from being able to plot and predict potential pandemics.
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