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UKRI offers £5m for research into Covid-19 impact on BAME people

The funding is for ideas that address the vulnerability of BAME groups to Covid-19, or emerging social economic and cultural
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Contact-tracing app U-turn ‘shouldn’t distract from wider data concerns’

Professor Eerke Boiten raised concerns about the companies with “strong political connections” that have access to the data.
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The importance of data in the fight against coronavirus

Jem Rashbass, director of master registries and data at NHS Digital, explores why data has been a key role in
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NHSX denies conflict of interest over DeepMind founder’s advisory role

Mustafa Suleyman was approached by NHSX to help the organisation explore how best to collect patient data, including the use
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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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NHSX must be ‘upfront’ about contact-tracing app, privacy group says

The app, developed by NHSX, is currently being trialled in the North of England. Digital Health News understands it is
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NHS partners with tech giants to develop Covid-19 data platform

The platform connects the Government and other national organisations responsible for coordinating the UK’s response to “secure, reliable and timely
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Criado-Perez: Men are not a standard women fail to live up to

The first rule of the gender data gap, Criado-Perez tells us in a light-hearted and often funny talk on a
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Alzheimer’s Research UK launches data initiative to help spot early signs

An initiatiave, which will analyse clinical and digital health data to develop early fingerprints of diseases like Alzheimer’s, has been
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Medical data automation for safer and more productive care at Wirral University Teaching Hospital

Medical data automation for safer and more productive care, how Wirral’s ICU nurses are benefiting from medical device integration.
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