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 Digital chases up organisations slow to destroy data.
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Patients who opted out of sharing their data beyond direct care have not yet had their wishes respected, as NHS Digital chases up organisations slow to destroy data.
IBMās Watson Health has moved into UK social care, with the machine learning company signing a ten-year agreement with Harrow Council to help deliver personal care budgets.
Google Deepmind has forged yet another NHS partnership, this time to improve head and neck cancer treatment.
A multi-million-pound data project to improve health care across the north of England has been unveiled, giving academics new access to anonymised health data.
Existing schemes to allow patients to opt-out of sharing their health data will not be immediately affected by the third Caldicott report but their future is far from assured.
A proposal for a new platform for the national collection of confidential patient information is under consideration, as concerns continue that elements of the care.data scheme will be resurrected.