Move to implement patient ‘data lake’ scheme
After meeting with NHS data experts and tech companies, NHS England chief information officer Will Smart wants to push on with a new patient data collection scheme.
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After meeting with NHS data experts and tech companies, NHS England chief information officer Will Smart wants to push on with a new patient data collection scheme.
NHS England and NHS Digital meet with IT suppliers, including Google Deepmind and Microsoft, to discuss how to build new national patient data collection system.
Another London trust has signed an agreement with the artificial intelligence company, which will likely give the company access to patient data.
An electronic data collection system has enabled 18 trusts across the West Midlands to contribute to the national 100,000 Genomes Project.
A new role has been created to ensure data consistency across the Care Quality Commission and NHS Improvement.
NHS Digital has seen off a challenge to the way its anonymises millions of patients’ data, with a verdict finding the practice is in keeping with national guidelines