Digital Health Unplugged: Data and accountability in the NHS

Join the panel as they discuss concerns around using patient data to trace corornavirus and the steps the NHS needs
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Covid-19: NHS contact-tracing app launched in Isle of Wight

The contact-tracing app will form part of the next phase of the governments test and trace approach to help stop
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UK Biobank collating Covid-19 data for future research purposes

The team, led by chief executive Sir Rory Collins, will develop a resource for 15,000 approved researchers from 85 countries
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GCHQ granted powers over NHS IT systems during Covid-19 outbreak

GCHQ was granted additional powers by Matt Hancock, allowing them to request anything “relating to the security of any network
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Covid-19: BAME data must not become ‘hot potato too difficult to confront’

The Shuri Network called for a “stronger focus” from leaders to address inequalities following anaylsis that revealed disproportionate BAME deaths.
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Manchester’s Nightingale hospital goes live with Patientrack

Patientrack alerts doctors and nurses when a patients vital signs are deteriorating, letting them know if they need urgent attention.
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NHSX differs with Apple and Google over contact-tracing app

NHSX has chosen to take a ‘centralised’ approach to collecting data on potential Covid-19 contacts, compared to Apple and Google’s
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Clinical IT supplier Microtest acquired by venture firm PUBLIC

Cornwall-based Microtest has worked closely with the NHS to provide primary care software in England, Scotland and Wales.
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NHSX sets up ethics advisory board to oversee contact-tracing app

The panel will be led by Professor Sir Jonathan Montgomery, of University College London. He was previously head of the
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Failure of NHS to share Covid-19 data ‘exasperating’, council chief says

Councils are struggling to access lists of “shielded” patients despite Cabinet Office rules stating they should have access, a council
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