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16 October 2023

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

This morning briefing features news from MD Consents, Cardiomatics and confirmation of a data breach at genetic testing company 23andMe.
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Christmas Scene
17 December 2020

Joe’s View: A Tale Of Two Christmases

As Christmas approaches along with the promise of a brand new year - Professor Joe McDonald looks at the best
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11 December 2020

Network pioneer Joe McDonald to retire after 30 years

This week sees the retirement of Professor Joe McDonald, who has been child psychiatrist for 30 years and is regarded
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Consent
29 April 2019

E-consent company founded by Welsh surgeon receives £350k funding

Concentric provides a paper-free consent process and still ensures patients facing surgery can still make shared decisions with their clinicians.
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21 March 2019

Alder Hey Children’s Hospital piloting eConsent software

Wellbeing Software’s eConsent will be used across the trust as part of its wider programme of digital transformation.
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Joe's view - Mark Zuckerberg
6 April 2018

Joe’s View: Dear Mr Zuckerberg – An open letter to Facebook’s CEO

Professor Joe McDonald pens an open letter to Facebook's founder and chief information officer on what the Great North Care
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shared records
30 November 2017

Great North Care Record Network launches to encourage further information sharing

Regional record sharing project the Great North Care Record (GNCR) has launched a new regional network to encourage greater information
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6 November 2017

Great North Care Record Model to switch to opt-in data sharing

The Great North Care Record is to switch from a model where patients can choose to opt out of information
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20 September 2017

Joe’s View: Consent is dead; long live citizen data sharing preferences

Joe McDonald wasn’t a hobbit in Lord of the Rings, he wasn’t at Wembley to see Geoff Hurst’s winner, but
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Illumina says the $US100 genome is in sight, bring precision medicine into the mainstream.
31 August 2017

Work needed on genomic and genetic data sharing – NDG

Further work is needed to establish how the consent process might appropriately cover data sharing in genetic and genomic medicine,
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