health data

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30 August 2023

Prostate Cancer Research receives sponsorship for patient data platform

Prostate Cancer Research (PCR) has received sponsorship to support its first of its kind prostate cancer patient data platform and
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28 June 2023

Google Health’s Karen DeSalvo says trust is ‘job one’ 

Google’s search engine and YouTube channel have brought it global name recognition. Now the tech giant wants to be the
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22 May 2023

NHS England says all NHS trusts and ICSs to get an FDP instance 

Every hospital trust and integrated care system may get its own local version of the proposed new FDP that can
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28 July 2022

Next update on Federated Data Platform expected in autumn

The next update on the multi-million-pound NHS Federated Data Platform is expected to be published on 5 September 2022.
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16 May 2022

Goldacre says TREs will mitigate harmful data risks and ‘earn public trust’

Professor Ben Goldacre has told the Science and Tech Committee that Trusted Research Environments (TREs) will mitigate data risks and
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Tomaz Gornik
12 April 2022

Rethinking the architecture of health IT to unlock potential

Tomaz Gornik explores why we need to rethink the architecture of health IT in order to unlock the potential of
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7 April 2022

Goldacre recommends Trusted Research Environments become ‘the norm’

A review led by Professor Ben Goldacre into health data has recommended Trusted Research Environments (TREs) become the "norm".
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Blockchain
23 March 2022

Blockchain makes medical data more secure

Jonas Lundqvist, CEO at Haidrun, looks at how a blockchain-powered digital healthcare ecosystem can increase the security and privacy of
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15 March 2022

Dr Nicola Byrne says data initiatives need to prove they are trustworthy

Dr Nicola Byrne has said data initiatives and organisations must ensure they can demonstrate what they are doing with information
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27 May 2021

New data collection service could ‘destroy’ patient trust

Concerns have been raised about a new data collection service which claims to give researchers faster access to pseudonymised patient information.
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