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Experts react to government’s U-turn on contact-tracing app

Industry leaders said the government should ensure ethics and privacy are “correct by design” in its new contact-tracing app.
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Barts Health CIO portrait included in NHS birthday celebrations

A portrait of the CIO at Barts Health NHS Trust is to be showcased across the country as part of
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An Advisory Panel member’s view of Covid-19

As a member of the Digital Health Networks Advisory Panel, we asked Aasha Cowey to share some of her experiences
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NHS Digital CEO named as one of the Global Top 100 Data Visionaries

Sarah Wilkinson has been named as one of the Global Top 100 Data Visionaries by HotTopics for the work she
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Contact-tracing app U-turn ‘shouldn’t distract from wider data concerns’

Professor Eerke Boiten raised concerns about the companies with “strong political connections” that have access to the data.
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British Gas volunteers who delivered telehealth equipment thanked

Liverpool CCG and a telehealth provider have thanked volunteers from British Gas who helped deliver equipment across the city during
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Reassurance on privacy of contact-tracing app remains ‘crucial’

Harriet Harman, chair of the joint human rights committee, has written to Matt Hancock requesting further information on how data
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Mobile health apps news in brief

This month’s mobile apps news round-up features news that the majority of UK people believe their contact-tracing data will be
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A CIO’s experience working through Covid-19

Mark Hutchinson reflects on a hectic few weeks in which the trust rolled out remote working and proceeded with a
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NHSX ‘knew contact-tracing app wouldn’t work on iPhones in April’

Apple and Google's APIs only work with a decentralised system, which leaves many iPhones incompatible with the NHS centralised contact-tracing
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