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Data breaches ongoing as NHS Digital pushes opt-outs

Patients who opted out of sharing their data beyond direct care have not yet had their wishes respected, as NHS
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HSCN connections this year after delays – NHS Digital

Health and Social Care Network connections should be available before the end of the year, but a report to NHS
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New board headed by McNeil

A new Digital Delivery Board will be overseen NHS England chief clinical information officer Keith McNeil, who is assuming growing
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1.1 million on NHSmail 2, push for social care expansion

More than a million people have now switched to NHSmail 2, with ambitions to extend the service to pharmacies and
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Healthcare IT news in brief

In this week’s round-up of digital healthcare news, we look at added functionality for the NHS e-referral service, a new
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NHS Digital to roll out new CareCERT cyber security services

NHS Digital is to start rolling out its expanded portfolio of CareCERT cyber security services across health and social care.
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Hunt reveals instant patient record and excellence centres

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt unveiled plans to “fast track digital excellence” today, including a further round of digital excellence centres
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NHS Digital shuffles transformation targets

NHS Digital has accidentally published a whole lot of targets for digital transformation, from patient consent opt-outs to de-identification services.
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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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Verify (and Facebook) tested for NHS online identity service

The new director of the government’s online identity scheme has raised the possibility of rolling out the service in the
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