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2020health calls for care.data to be postponed and replaced by an opt-in system
We had a huge amount of interest in our fringe event held on Tuesday at the Conservative Party Conference on privacy and electronic health records. We are vocal advocates of electronic health records (EHR) and the potential for technology to … Continue reading
Simon Stevens says some sensible stuff
It was refreshing to listen to Simon Stevens, NHS England CEO, yesterday in front of the Health Select Committee. He didn’t have pat answers to all the questions posed to him by MPs, but even the lack of obfuscation was … Continue reading
Is section 119 wrong…
Having been submerged under Syria, floods and Sochi, Healthcare has emerged again like spring daffodils to be the talk of the news. Dorrell and Burnham slogged it out yesterday on Radio 4’s Today over section 119 and the vote was … Continue reading
Losing public confidence is a huge risk to the NHS and to research
I have previously written on NHS England’s #care.data initiative, which will see the nation’s GP medical records uploaded to a national database that can then be accessed by research organisations, commissioners and commercial companies (for a price). The problems were … Continue reading
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