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Re-identifying care.data illegal

There is a “theoretical risk” that data released to researchers from the care.data programme could be used to re-identify patients,
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Care.data opt-out ‘not clear’ – ICO

The Information Commissioner’s Office is concerned that the information provided to patients on care.data is not clear enough about how
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Care.data safeguards detailed

Patient identifiable information extracted as part of care.data will not be available via Section 251 requests while NHS England establishes
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EU rule makes research ‘impractical’

New data protection rules being proposed for the European Union would make conducting research using data in the EU “impractical”,
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Care.data cost more than £50m

The strategic outline business case for the controversial care.data programme is yet to go to Treasury for approval and involves
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SCR uploads and viewings hit record high

Nineteen clinical commissioning groups have hit a 100% upload rate for Summary Care Records.
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TPP MIG integration in final testing

A west London pilot integrating TPP’s SystmOne with the Medical Interoperability Gateway is in a final round of testing and
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TPP signs MIG contract

Healthcare Gateway has signed a contract with TPP to share SystmOne data via its Medical Interoperability Gateway.
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Emis-TPP data sharing called off

An agreement to work on direct sharing of information between TPP and Emis users has collapsed.
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Hunt attacks GPs for OOH and IT issues

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt highlighted problems around sharing patient information as he announced that GPs would take back responsibility for
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