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Industry round-up

4 September 2015 12:00 AM

This week’s industry round up includes go-lives, contract wins, and the appointment of a new managing director for Advanced Health and Care.

Mental health apps given prize fund

3 September 2015 12:53 PM

A £650,000 prize fund to develop new mental health apps for the NHS has been announced by life sciences minister George Freeman.

HSCIC launches cyber security service

3 September 2015 11:18 AM

A new NHS cyber security service – CareCERT – will be up and running by January 2016, the Health and Social Care Information Centre has announced.

Bryant puts paperless future on CCGs

3 September 2015 10:48 AM

Clinical commissioning groups have overall responsibility for delivering a paperless NHS by 2020 and will manage any funding made available to support this ambition, NHS England has said.

Hunt pushes on intelligent transparency

2 September 2015 4:19 PM

A quarter of smartphone users will be accessing their medical records by 2018, CCGs will be publishing new ratings, and the NHS will have taken further steps to restore public confidence in data and security, the health secretary has promised.

Handbook ‘to define interoperability’

2 September 2015 1:43 PM

An interoperability handbook and procurement guide will be released tomorrow to help clinical commissioning groups write their digital roadmaps and healthcare providers achieve the vision of interoperable patient records.

56 Dean Street in email data breach

2 September 2015 12:51 PM

The Information Commissioner’s Office is looking into an “incident” involving the innovative 56 Dean Street clinic in London’s Soho, which has accidentally disclosed the HIV status of 800 patients.