Data

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Value of stolen medical records less than financial data

A new study into the marketplace for stolen medical records has found that stolen medical records data does not yet
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£20m health data project in the north

A multi-million-pound data project to improve health care across the north of England has been unveiled, giving academics new access
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‘Significant problems’ with data access in public health

Public health services have been denied access to health data vital to doing their job, a report from the Commons
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Care.data concerns as new platform proposed

A proposal for a new platform for the national collection of confidential patient information is under consideration, as concerns continue
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Pennine criticised on data quality in damning CQC report

Poor data quality and lack of investment identified at big North Manchester hospital trust.
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Blackwood handed health IT

Nicola Blackwood has been handed responsibility for health IT in the post-Brexit shake-up of government.
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Tough penalities and better data control – Caldicott

Dame Fiona Caldicott's latest review of information governance and data security in the NHS is out; recommending a stronger focus
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Special report: Data and analysis for commissioning

Central initiatives are driving the use of data and analysis in healthcare. But it is using data to find patients
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Prescribing tool opens up GP data

A new online tool allows people to quickly analyse and respond to the huge GP prescribing datasets released monthly by
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PAC slams GPES failures

Whitehall is continuing to fail to learn from IT disasters, the Public Accounts Committee has concluded in a report that
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