Confidentiality Archives

21 May 2007

Government backs pharmacist access to EPR

The government has backed plans for pharmacists to be allowed access to electronic patient records but says the public will

14 May 2007

EMIS seeks 100 pilot practices for patient record access

A patient record access group is looking for 100 EMIS practices to take part in a pioneering project allowing patients

10 May 2007

Information Commissioner to investigate MTAS leak

The Information Commissioner has told the Liberal Democrat’s health spokesperson, Norman Lamb that he will be launching an immediate investigation

1 May 2007

Scottish GPs insist on explicit consent on shared records

GP practices must remain the data controller for GP records even if databases are held within a hosted environment,

11 April 2007

Cayton says legacy systems could have offered more

England’s NHS National Programme for Information Technology will lead to better patient care but greater emphasis on building on existing

2 April 2007

Welsh health IT ‘Wizards’ set different path to England

The NHS Wales IT agency Informing Healthcare has announced that it has successfully deployed its first system, an out-of-hours GP

26 March 2007

Consider ethical issues of care record, MDU advises

GPs need to consider going beyond implied consent before allowing patient information to be uploaded to the spine, according to

13 March 2007

Privacy GP calls records opt out pledge a ‘decoy’

A GP who has campaigned for patients to secure an opt-out from the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS) is claiming

6 March 2007

Exercising Choice

When Connecting for Health appointed its GP clinical leads two years ago, there were three big issues on the primary

5 March 2007

Unified communications in healthcare

Single, converged networks supporting IP telephony, videoconferencing, video-on-demand and contact centres offer benefits for healthcare that should not be ignored,