Hancock: NHS needs to ‘double down’ on tech advances after Covid-19
Speaking about the future of healthcare Matt Hancock told the audience better technology was needed for better healthcare.
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Hancock refuses to provide roll-out date for contact-tracing app
When questioned on the progress of the app Hancock told a parliamentary committee it would be rolled-out “as soon as an effective one is available”.
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Hancock says health service has seen tech uptake ‘like never before’
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has said the Covid-19 pandemic has seen an updake of technology in healthcare “like never before”.
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NHSX publishes £3m tender to help phase out pagers
The solutions must enable secure messaging; image sharing; staff directory linked to the NHS.net address book; and calls.
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NHSX ‘knew contact-tracing app wouldn’t work on iPhones in April’
Apple and Google’s APIs only work with a decentralised system, which leaves many iPhones incompatible with the NHS centralised contact-tracing app.
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Results of first week of test and trace are in – app is still out
The app was designed to speed up the process of contact-tracing, with epidemiologists previously warning manual contact-tracing would be too slow.
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Draft bills calls for greater assurance of privacy in contact-tracing app
If the bill becomes law, government would be required to set up an independent contact-tracing app Privacy Tzar to monitor its use and deal with complaints.
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Government ‘cannot rely on contact-tracing app to ease lockdown’
It is “critical” that capacity for contact-tracing is advanced for “further stages of managing the epidemic”, according to a government committee.
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Unreliable contact-tracing apps ‘could provide false sense of security’
The ethics advisory board tasked with overseeing the NHS contact-tracing app has raised concerns about the reliability of an app based on self-reporting.
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Online portal launched to help care homes access Covid-19 tests
A new online portal which aims to make it easier for care homes to arrange deliveries of coronavirus test kits has been by the government.
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