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1 September 2008

ContactPoint delayed for further testing

The introduction of the national children’s database ContactPoint has been delayed until January 2009. The pilot of the delayed programme
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27 August 2008

Police to get access to national child database

Police are to be given access to the Government’s new children’s database, in order to search for evidence of criminal
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20 August 2008

Medical data breach insurance offered in US

Members of a US healthcare purchasing alliance are now able to take out insurance to cover the financial costs of data breaches.  The
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19 August 2008

Gematik tests next generation health card

Smart card expert Sagem Orga, in collaboration with German health insurer Techniker Krankenkasse, has become the first company to develop
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18 August 2008

South Manchester selects Imprivata for SSO

GE PACS system with Imprivata’s OneSign SSO technology University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust has chosen Imprivata OneSign
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11 August 2008

Colchester manager sacked over lost laptop

A senior hospital manager, who lost a laptop containing the unencrypted records of more than 20,000 patients while he was
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29 July 2008

Milton Keynes’ CRS caused ‘near melt down’

The deployment of a national programme care records system at Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust “developed into an untenable
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25 July 2008

EHI’s news roundup 25.07.08

E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week ending 25 July 2008 featuring supplier news and information on newly published
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25 July 2008

European Court fines Finland for data breach

The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Finnish government to pay out €34,000 because it failed to protect
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18 July 2008

Ambient assisted living set for growth

The German association of the electronics industry, VDE, has called for politicians and insurance companies to increase their engagement in
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