Confidentiality

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22 August 2007

Patients need assurance on online health records

Patients need to be convinced that electronic personal health records (ePHRs) are safe and will benefit them, a group of
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16 August 2007

Somerset LMC reports confidentiality breaches

Somerset Local Medical Committee (LMC) has reported two ‘significant and worrying’ breaches of patient electronic data confidentiality, both by individuals
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14 August 2007

New guidance on information disclosure to PCTs

The British Medical Association has issued new guidance to GPs on confidentiality and disclosure of information to primary care trusts.
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30 July 2007

Receptionist call triage system launched

Decision support specialists Plain Healthcare have launched a new triage system for receptionists dealing with patients on the telephone or
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25 July 2007

Concern about USB sticks used for handovers

The security of data stored on USB sticks has been called into question following the theft of a stick containing
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24 July 2007

Don’t boycott e-records, pleads CfH patients lead

Connecting for Health’s patient lead, Marlene Winfield, has pleaded with GPs not to boycott key National Programme for IT initiatives
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26 June 2007

BMA conference says C+B limits patient choice

The British Medical Association’s annual conference has condemned Choose and Book as currently unfit for purpose and claimed the scheme
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20 June 2007

Doctors need guidance on mobile technology use

UK clinicians urgently need clear and coherent guidance on the safe use of mobile technologies according to researchers. Kent GP
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12 June 2007

Granger says NPfIT programme substantially delivered

Richard Granger, the chief executive of Connecting for Health, today said that the NHS IT project has been substantially delivered with
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5 June 2007

GP representatives to call for public enquiry on CRS

GPs representatives are to hear calls for a public inquiry into the cost of the NHS Care Records Service (CRS)
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