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NHS tech chief dismisses concerns over loss of statutory power to protect patient data

Outgoing CEO of NHS Digital says merger with NHS England is needed to 'provide clarity' in tech leadership

PaaS + IaaS16 Nov 2022 | 37

Oracle's Larry Ellison shares fears of bankrupting Western civilization with healthcare

Comment But the solution may need more than a really big database

PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2022 | 41

LockBit 3.0 malware forced NHS tech supplier to shut down hosted sites

Managed software provider Advanced admits some customer data 'exfiltrated' in August ransomware attack

Cyber-crime14 Oct 2022 | 2

UK hospitals fall back on pen and paper after Oracle Cerner outage

Staff couldn't access patient records and paper stocks were running low

Databases12 Oct 2022 | 11

NHS data platform procurement delayed for a second time

Questions remain over Palantir's influence after consultancy role for former NHS England director revealed

Databases15 Sep 2022 | 29

IBM wins contract to support NHS App

Smartphone software set to link more services to patients despite privacy fears

Applications06 Sep 2022 | 24

Decisions on health data sharing should not be taken by politicians, citizen juries find

Britain's National Data Guardian report also warns NHS needs to earn people’s trust, support for controversial data platform

Security31 Aug 2022 | 10

UK's NHS goes to market for $2b HR and payroll system

Plans afoot to replace Oracle EBS/AIX system used by 1.8 million staff dating from 2008

PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2022 | 24

UK hospitals lose millions after AI startup valuation collapses

Updated Two trusts saw nearly $18 million go up in smoke when Sensyne Health was delisted from AIM

AI + ML17 Aug 2022 | 71

Major IT outage forces UK emergency call handlers to use 'pen and paper'

Updated Suspected cyberattack at Advanced takes down part of server estate that hosted range of apps

On-Prem05 Aug 2022 | 38

Hospital IT melts in heatwave, leaving doctors without patient records

Clinical systems 10 years old, new software due to go live next year

On-Prem22 Jul 2022 | 21

UK government refuses public review before launch of NHS data platform

Patients must have the right to decide what information is taken from health records, say privacy campaigners

Databases20 Jul 2022 | 130

Health trusts swapped patient data for shares in an AI firm. They may have lost millions

Deals leave NHS bodies out of pocket after collapse in value of UK health tech company

AI + ML06 Jul 2022 | 35

UK govt promises to sink billions into electronic health records for England

NHS App role expanded following perceived COVID-era success

PaaS + IaaS30 Jun 2022 | 62

UK health privacy watchdog still in talks over who is accessing country's COVID data store

Over a year after discussions began, National Data Guardian continues to pursue transparency in health data use

Security14 Jun 2022 | 6

Concerns that £360m data platform for NHS England is being set up to fail

Delays said to favor Palantir as health service seeks suppliers to support its top-down data revolution

Databases13 Jun 2022 | 43

Phishing operation hits NHS email accounts to harvest Microsoft credentials

You've won $2m! Now just send me a small fee

Security05 May 2022 | 44

Former NHS AI leader joins US spy-tech firm Palantir

Move coincides with NHS England's procurement of a far-reaching data platform

AI + ML22 Apr 2022 | 21

NHS England seeks £240m data platform to tackle COVID recovery

Govt org that led controversial Palantir data store seeks overarching system and help to improve services

On-Prem14 Apr 2022 | 8

Hospitals to use startup's AI tech to predict A&E traffic

Software will figure out number of beds needed – up to three weeks ahead

AI + ML29 Mar 2022 | 21

Fresh concerns about 'indefinite' UK government access to doctors' patient data

As England's controversial scheme to grab 55 million citizen's medical data is withdrawn, emergency powers are extended

Security23 Mar 2022 | 33

NHS Digital's demise bad for 55 million patients' privacy – ex-chairman

IT and data arm now part of NHS England, which could be pressured into data sharing without proper oversight

Security04 Mar 2022 | 41

Dido Harding's appointment to English public health body ruled unlawful

Hiring of ex-Sainsbury's CEO at NHS Test and Trace also against equality law – court

Legal15 Feb 2022 | 74

UK pins hopes on 'latest technology' to whittle down massive National Health Service waiting lists

£500m tech consultancy procurement in the offing

Software09 Feb 2022 | 95

A fifth of England's NHS trusts are mostly paper-based as they grapple with COVID backlog, warn MPs

Recent report on IT-led change must be acted on by NHS leaders to address pandemic fallout

On-Prem07 Jan 2022 | 67

Cerner, a company that scooped more than £100m in NHS deals in a year, is in Oracle's crosshairs

Updated Big Red targets health records specialist Cerner in $30bn takeover bid

Databases17 Dec 2021 | 8

East Londoners nicked under Computer Misuse Act after NHS vaccine passport app sprouted clump of fake entries

App runs off a database, and databases are run by humans

Security16 Dec 2021 | 105

Thought NHS Digital's wind-down meant it would stop writing cheques? Silly you. It's gone on an IT buying spree

£37m signed up for soon-to-be-defunct non-dept public body

Off-Prem07 Dec 2021 | 34

UK health secretary confirms end for NHS Digital, architect of the GP data grab debacle

NHSX also doomed in shake-up of 'odd' tech leadership structure

Off-Prem22 Nov 2021 | 55

Future of the three NHS bodies managing health tech in doubt after £2.1bn cash injection

Health secretary signals shack-up could be on the cards

Off-Prem18 Nov 2021 | 39

Mind your Ps and queues: Bork makes a visit to the A&E

Bork!Bork!Bork! Thanks Windows! Now this is the kind of hospital data-sharing we like to see...

Bootnotes14 Oct 2021 | 19

Brit MPs blast Baroness Dido Harding's performance as head of NHS Test and Trace

Programme lacked transparency at critical stage in pandemic, report says

Databases12 Oct 2021 | 150

England's Data Guardian warns of plans to grant police access to patient data

Proposed law could 'erode trust and confidence' in healthcare

Databases11 Oct 2021 | 43

UK's NHS hands Accenture another £5m for Test and Trace system for another year

What happened to transferring £1,000-per-day consultant work to the civil service?

Networks06 Sep 2021 | 11

IBM tossed £20m to keep the Trace side of NHS Test and Trace services running

Big Blue continues to reap rewards from pandemic in the UK

Networks25 Aug 2021 | 21

UK's National Data Guardian warned about GP data grab being perceived as going 'under the radar'

Updated And oh look.... 1.27 million extra opt-outs in July

Databases19 Aug 2021 | 31

Watchdog 'disappointed' it took NHS England over a year to release details of access to Palantir COVID-19 data store

Updated 18 months after controversial project began, non-departmental public body finally gives up the goods

Databases18 Aug 2021 | 70

Without a trace: Baroness Dido Harding to step down as chair of NHS Improvement

Anyone fancy applying?

Personal Tech10 Aug 2021 | 59

NHS England's £200m ERP replacement misses another deadline as procurement runs 2 years behind schedule

Delivery of project to manage £110bn spending 'appears to be unachievable' says UK government's own watchdog

Databases02 Aug 2021 | 19

Ex-health secretary said 'vast majority' were 'onside' with GP data grab. Consumer champion Which? reckons 20 million don't even know what it is

Guess what? When people find out about the scheme, trust in the NHS falls

Databases29 Jul 2021 | 82

Snail mail would be a fool-proof way to inform patients about plans to slurp GP data, but UK govt won't commit

'Campaign of engagement and communication' might not include letter, but junior minister doesn't rule it out

Databases21 Jul 2021 | 39

England's controversial extraction of personal medical histories from GP systems is delayed for a second time

Doctors wrote to UK government saying they would refuse to hand over data

Databases20 Jul 2021 | 89

How many Brits have deleted life-saving track and trace app from their phones? No idea, junior minister tells MPs

After a troubled birth, infamous but effective code becomes an inconvience

Software15 Jul 2021 | 92

NHS contracts for document storage, digitisation three years after paperless deadline

£200m tender is latest step in never-ending journey toward a paperless utopia

Personal Tech13 Jul 2021 | 13

PPE, Part II: UK health department takes second stab at e-commerce system for personal protective equipment

Let's hope this time a shortage can be averted

Software05 Jul 2021 | 5

NHS England staff voice concerns about access controls on US spy-tech firm Palantir's COVID-19 data store

Foundry platform lacks transparency and accountability, sources tell El Reg

Databases05 Jul 2021 | 49

IT manager who swindled Essex hospital trust out of £800k gets 5 years in prison

Self-signed invoices let him cream off hundreds of thousands

Legal02 Jul 2021 | 42

When free and open source actually means £6k-£8k per package: Atos's £136m contract with NHS England

'All software must be safely and securely deployed within guidelines provided to us,' says outsourcer

Software29 Jun 2021 | 97

Backbench Tory campaigner promises judicial review of data grab of English GP patients unless UK government changes tack

Trove too tempting for computer criminals while public unaware of their rights, says David Davis

Databases25 Jun 2021 | 27

BMA warns NHS Digital's own confidentiality guardian could halt English GP data grab unless communication with public improves

Updated Data law's transparency requirement currently not being met, according to powerful doctors' union

Databases25 Jun 2021 | 21

UK health secretary Matt Hancock follows delay to GP data grab with campaign called 'Data saves lives'

As ever, the devil is in the detail for privacy activists

Databases22 Jun 2021 | 101

'Vast majority of people' are onside with a data grab they know next to nothing about, reckons UK health secretary

Comment A day before THAT delay, Matt Hancock told MPs that 'citizens' own the data he'd instructed the health department to take by default

Databases09 Jun 2021 | 86

UK government bows to pressure, agrees to delay NHS Digital grabbing the data of England's GP patients

What's that? Letting people know just weeks before was a bad idea?

Databases08 Jun 2021 | 64

UK's Labour Party calls for delay to NHS Digital's GP data slurp until patients can be properly informed

Plus: National watchdog says pseudonymisation is data processing

Databases07 Jun 2021 | 41

Just when everyone thought things might be looking up, Dido Harding admits interest in top job at NHS England

Yep. The exec responsible for shambolic Test and Trace programme, and TalkTalk's 2015 mega-breach

Software07 Jun 2021 | 50

BMA and Royal College of GPs refuse to endorse NHS Digital's data grab from surgeries in England

BMA separately calls for a delay to the programme

Databases04 Jun 2021 | 50