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Health IT news in brief

This week’s Health IT round-up includes tweaks to e-referral services for GPs and new order communications system connecting hospitals, GPs,
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Poor information sharing barrier to NHS integration – NAO

The report, from the National Audit Office, says reticence to share information across health and social care is one three
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Joe’s View: Privacy, where next?

A fact-finding trip to Seoul has left Joe McDonald contemplating the quality of freedom and privacy back in the UK,
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Cyber-attack leaves anti ISIS message on trust website

Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust had its homepage hacked into by cyber attackers wanting to push their
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Twenty NHS digital fast follower trusts to get £5m each

NHS England plans to fund 20 "fast follower" trusts to become digital advanced in the next three years, using blueprints
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NHS Wales remains committed to co-operation on IT

David Davies and Rhidian Hurle, the leaders of NHS Wales’ Informatics Service, tell Digital Health’s Laura Stevens, how NHS Wales
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National Data Guardian to review health data sharing on illegal immigrants

Dame Fiona Caldicott, the National Data Guardian, will be meeting health and Home Office officials to discuss controversial data scheme
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Advisory Series: Cyber

In the first of Digital Health Intelligence’s new quarterly cyber security advisory series, Davey Winder looks at network security health
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Cambridge gets £10m as new ‘global digital exemplars’

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been chosen as one of four new global digital exemplars, along with two
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Kettering struggles with radiology backlog after IT deployment

A Midlands trust is suffering huge reporting backlogs after implementing a new digital radiology system as part of the East
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