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2 July 2021

Palantir appoints former Cerner boss to cement place in UK health sector

Dr Justin Whatling joins Palantir from Cerner. His main role will be to provide guidance to the tech giant's health
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2 July 2021

Covid-19 vaccine status added to personal health records in Scotland

The Scottish government has struck a deal with Orion Health to enable health and care workers to access a person’s
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30 June 2021

Covid-19 passports to go live in Northern Ireland ‘from next week’

Northern Ireland’s Department of Health announced its Covid-19 passport could be live by Monday, July 5 – ahead of the
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28 June 2021

Sajid Javid faces ‘huge task’ on digital and data in NHS

Sajid Javid has been appointed as health secretary at a time when the use of data and technology in the
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25 June 2021

Online Covid-19 passports go live in Wales from today

The NHS Covid-19 passport, which is also available in England, allows people to prove they’ve had both jabs when travelling
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22 June 2021

Data strategy: Put NHS patients ‘ahead of demands for profit’

Patient groups and privacy campaigners have raised concerns over who will have access to the data under the government's draft
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Health Secretary Matt Hancock inside 10 Downing Street. Credit: 10 Downing Street
22 June 2021

Hancock: How the data strategy will improve care and fuel innovation

In an exclusive blog for Digital Health, Matt Hancock, outlines how the data strategy will help improve care, fuel innovation
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GP IT
22 June 2021

Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes CCG awards analytics contract

Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes CCG has awarded a business intelligence and analytics contract to NHS Arden and Greater East
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22 June 2021

Data Strategy: Patients to get easier access to medical data through NHS App

Under the NHSX draft data strategy, patients will gain better access to their health records in the NHS App, while
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Simon Bolton
21 June 2021

NHS Digital CEO says organisation needs to ‘face GPDPR challenge’

The interim CEO at NHS Digital has said the organisation needs to 'face the challenge' after concerns were raised over the
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