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 programmes and when health data is anonymous.
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Legal view: sharing is daring?
Christopher Air and Eleanor Tunnicliffe from DAC Beachcroft consider the vexed issue of information sharing between NHS organisations from the perspective of what the law says.
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GPs call for patient opt-in to care.data
GPs have called for patients to be able to opt in to their data being extracted from GP practices as part of care.data.
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Pseudo at source review for care.data
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has launched a steering group to “help guide” its possible use of pseudonymisation at source for care.data.
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Pseudo at source ‘not ready’ – Kelsey
NHS England’s director of patients and information Tim Kelsey says ‘pseudonymisation at source’ technology is not ready for use on the care.data programme.
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Hippisley-Cox wins John Perry Prize
Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox has won the John Perry prize for her work developing the Open Pseudonymiser tool.
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Trusts miss pseudonymisation target
Fewer than half of NHS trusts have successfully “pseudonymised” their patient records, missing a government target aimed at making patient data more secure.
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SUS anonymisation described as trivial
Fresh questions have been raised over the anonymity of de-identified patient data provided through the NHS secondary uses service for use in research trials.
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