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Four-fifths of doctors say electronic record insecure

Four-fifths of doctors are concerned that current plans for patients’ health records to be available from a central database –
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PACS now used in every English trust, DH says

Digital imaging technology is now being used in every trust in England, the Department of Health has announced. Picture archiving
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Opposition calls for rethink on data storage

The debate over healthcare data security took a political turn as the opposition called on the government to change its
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After the security storm

Data security experts believe the recent HMRC recent data disaster holds vital lessons for the health service, EHI editor Linda
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2007 in review

As the year draws to a close E-Health Insider casts an eye over the health IT developments that made the
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DH found guilty on MTAS data protection breach

The Information Commissioner’s Office has found the Department of Health in breach of the Data Protection Act following an investigation
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US group calls for national patient IDs

America’s National Alliance for Health Information Technology has called for a national voluntary system of unique patient identification numbers to
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IBM to implement SAP for Aragon health system

Luis Javier Bonilla The government of the Aragon region of Spain has signed an agreement worth a total of €3m
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German industry group publishes telemedicine standards

Leading German electronic association the VDE has published a new set of standards for telemedicine to spur the development of
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Ex-CfH CTO’s firm earns £46.3m from NPfIT

An IT consultant who worked as Chief Technology Officer of NHS Connecting for Health for three years is also the
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