Experts react to government’s U-turn on contact-tracing app
Industry leaders said the government should ensure ethics and privacy are “correct by design” in its new contact-tracing app.
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Timeline: What happened to the NHS contact-tracing app
Digital Health’s senior reporter, Andrea Downey, looks back at the NHS contact-tracing app, which was first announced back in March.
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Virtual Summer School 2020 programme published
The full programme for the Virtual Summer Schools 2020 has been published with the event just over three weeks away, 23-24 July.
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Contact-tracing app U-turn ‘shouldn’t distract from wider data concerns’
Professor Eerke Boiten raised concerns about the companies with “strong political connections” that have access to the data.
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NAO report highlights “complexity of the NHS digital landscape”
The team behind a report into digital transformation across NHSE have said they think it highlights the “complexity of the NHS digital landscape”.
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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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Poll: Did the gov make the right decision about the contact-tracing app?
In light of the government U-turn on the NHS contact-tracing app, Digital Health News wants the opinion of our readers including whether they agree.
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Covid-19 tracking tool appears on smartphones – but it’s not an app
The new exposure notification settings are part of an update to the operating systems, which will enable an app to run in the background.
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