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NewsCyber security plans outlined amid 'mounting concern' of attacks
Information centre to discuss raft of cyber security proposals Proposals include call for central contingency fund to deal with a system-wide security incident There is “mounting concern” among experts about cyber attacks on patient data, report says The Health and Social Care Information Centre will this week consider ...
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NewsHSCIC faces 30 per cent grant cut
30 per cent cut to HSCIC grant based on spending review assumptions, finance chief says Cut yet to be confirmed by Department of Health Spending review showed non-ringfenced NHS bodies faced big cuts The Health and Social Care Information Centre has estimated it faces a 30 per cent ...
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NewsCare.data suffers new set back
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has pledged to contact a potentially large number of patients who objected to the Care.data programme, after it emerged that their opt-outs could unintentionally exclude them from NHS services such as bowel screening.
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HSJ KnowledgeBoardroom to front line: Tech advances have benefits across the NHS
The potential to improve governance and patient care
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NewsUPDATED: NHS cannot force insurers to delete patient data
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has admitted it has no legal power to force private companies holding potentially sensitive patient data obtained from its predecessor body to delete the information.
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NewsBid to award Caldicott group legal status rejected by Lords
A Care Bill amendment designed to increase safeguards for patients’ confidential information in the Care.data programme, was rejected by the House of Lords this week.
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NewsThird of NHS data releases went to private sector, audit says
Just over a third of the organisations which received approved patient data releases from the NHS between April and December last year were private firms, an audit published today said.
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NewsDH: New care.data safeguards will not affect research or commissioning
The government has published the legal measures it hopes will allay fears over the controversial care.data programme, and insisted they will not prevent information being available for commissioning, research and public health.
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NewsNHS records 'sold to insurers'
The medical records of almost 50 million NHS hospital patients have been sold for insurance purposes, it has been reported.
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NewsInformation centre should audit waiting times data, say health leaders
Health leaders have called for an Audit Commission-style body to perform spot checks and external monitoring of waiting times data to ensure its accuracy.
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NewsPlan to increase email security in £168m tender
A tender has been announced for a £168.1m contract to run the NHS’s email system over a five year period.
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NewsExclusive: National bodies back community services plans
Efforts to develop quality indicators and a tariff payment system for community services providers have taken a leap forward after winning the support of the main national health leadership organisations, HSJ has discovered.
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CommentReaders letters – 7 February 2014
We need to give people with mental health difficulties more treatment options
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NewsDH tightens grip on informatics policy
The Department of Health has strengthened its grip on the NHS’s informatics policy by making a key policy group directly accountable to itself, HSJ has learned.
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NewsInformation centre strategy signals ‘turf war’ with NHS England
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is drawing up a technology strategy in a move predicted to put it on a collision course with NHS England.
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NewsMortality ratio information identifies new 'outliers'
Six trusts have been identified as having a “persistently” higher than expected mortality rate according to the summary hospital-level mortality indicator.
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CommentThe information revolution hasn't stopped care failings
Access to data isn’t improving hospital care
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CommentTap into the power and potential of big data
We can use open data to increase knowledge and transparency
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NewsPatient data opt-out 'difficult'
The government has been accused of deliberately making it hard for people to prevent their confidential patient records being sent to a national database.
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CommentThe UK and US are united by a common health goal
Health secretaries sign technology memorandum today