14 September 2016

Explainer: when is an app not an app (but a medical device)?

New guidance has been released on when an app becomes a “medical device” but attempts to control which apps creep
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9 September 2016

Expo 2016: What you need to know

The 2016 Health and Social Care Innovation Expo wasn’t short on new policies, big reveals, and fancy tech. Ben Heather
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8 September 2016

Caldicott: future of patient opt-outs a ‘challenge’

Existing schemes to allow patients to opt-out of sharing their health data will not be immediately affected by the third
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7 September 2016

Hunt: IT funds will support ‘Ivy league’ of exemplar trusts

In response to the Wachter review of NHS IT, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced there will be two waves
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7 September 2016

Wachter calls for extension to paperless 2020 target

Dr Robert Wachter has said the “unrealistic” paperless 2020 goal should be discarded in his long-awaiting review into the digital
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7 September 2016

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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6 September 2016

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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1 September 2016

‘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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1 September 2016

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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26 August 2016

Telehealth used to cut consultations under draft STPs

Draft Sustainability and Transformation Plans are proposing cuts to NHS services, including the closure of acute hospitals and greater reliance
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