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24 February 2023

Industry news in brief

The latest Digital Health News industry roundup features Florence expanding into Canada and Qure.ai being awarded EU Medical Device Regulation.
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19 December 2017

GDPR: Which NHS trusts are ready for 25 May 2018?

New data from Digital Health Intelligence reveals 55% of acute trusts 47% of mental health trusts have an implementation plan prepared
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29 November 2017

PCS Speaker Profile: Ed Tucker on bringing cyber back to basics

Ed Tucker, CIO at DP Governance, speaks to Digital Health about the need to remove the complexity from the GDPR
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21 November 2017

PCS Speaker profile: Gabriel Voisin on the impact of GDPR

New data protection laws, which will be enforced in May 2018, will be a hot topic at the first Public
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15 June 2017

Alliance formed to be voice of health sector as UK leaves EU

As the UK moves into negotiations with the EU, a new alliance has been formed to safeguard the interests of
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12 October 2016

Brexit timescale means NHS should plan for EU data laws

Prime Minister Theresa May's clarification of the Brexit timetable makes it increasingly likely that the NHS will need to comply
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A pile of 50-euro notes
20 July 2016

The GDPR: the €20 million question

The EU’s general data protection regulation sounds like something the NHS won’t need to worry about, now the UK is
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19 October 2015

Barcoded medicines to prevent fake drugs

All prescription medicines will need to carry a barcode on their packaging to reduce the risk of counterfeit and unsafe
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15 June 2015

Call to improve mHealth data protection

Greater efforts must be made to protect patient data collected by mobile devices, according to Europe’s data guardian.
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Half a million patient correspondents were lost by NHS shared business service.
23 March 2015

EU ministers back data privacy changes

The European Union has provisionally agreed changes to planned data privacy legislation that will make it easier to share data
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