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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
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Induction Healthcare to get a new zest for life with acquisition

Induction Healthcare has announced it intends to acquire the cash and shares of health tech company Zesty Limited in a
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Digital Health Unplugged: May news team debrief

Join Andrea Downey, Hannah Crouch and Jon Hoeksma as they look at the whether the app will be successful and
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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
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Government roadmap hints at more use of tele-medicine and remote care

The government will look for “innovative operating models” for the NHS and other health and care settings as the country
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Allocate platform helps track live NHS absences to help during Covid-19

A platform which tracks live absences in the NHS has been expanded to help the health service during the Covid-19
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Applications open for fifth cohort of DigitalHealth.London Accelerator

The DigitalHealth.London programme, now in its fifth year, aims to support start-ups looking to transform health and care, connecting them
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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
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Google Analytics trackers in contact-tracing app code ‘risks re-identification’

NHSX has always maintained the code for the contact-tracing app would be made publicly available, but currently only the front-end
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NHS organisations facing “significant” digital transformation challenges

A report by the NAO has concluded that local NHS organisations are facing “significant challenges” when it comes to working
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