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EHI’s careers fair enjoyed by hundreds

E-Health Insider readers gathered in the Hotel Russell, London last Friday for our second Healthcare IT Careers Forum, to find
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NHS leading public sector on shared services

A new study by the National Audit Office has praised the NHS for being at the forefront of adopting shared
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Ophthalmologists use ePortfolio for career development

Trainee doctor members of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists are using a new web-based system, ePortfolio from Premier IT, to
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Children’s database delayed to review security

The government has announced that the £224m children’s database, ContactPoint, will be delayed for five months, so that a full
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Ehealth one of UK’s major future technologies

The government’s Council for Science and Technology (CST) has named e-health as one of the most promising technologies for the
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Overseas data work under review, say reports

The government is reportedly reviewing whether sensitive information about NHS patients could be sent overseas for processing. A leaked internal
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Security clampdown on NSTS batch deliveries

A clampdown on deliveries of unencrypted data sent by regular mail services has been announced by the NHS Strategic Tracing
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Health records a target for ‘the wicked’

Richard Jeavons, senior responsible owner for service implementation at Connecting for Health has admitted to the Commons Home Affairs Committee
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Revenue blunder is a lesson for public bodies

The Information Commissioner has highlighted the importance of tight security and data protection in public sector bodies, following the security
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Losing patient data may become a crime

The court should be able to prosecute doctors who have laptops containing unencrypted patient information stolen from their cars, according
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