NHS

Many NHS Health Apps Leak Data, Study Finds

Many NHS-accredited health apps have poor privacy standards and don't secure customer data, study finds

9 years ago

NHS England Digital Boss Tim Kelsey Resigns

Move to the sun. Digital boss at NHS England is standing down and heading down under

9 years ago

NHS Reveals Plans To Go ‘Paperless’ By 2020

Plans to stop the NHS being reliant on old technology get dusted off in drive for efficiency and cost savings

9 years ago

Watchdog: Universal Credit, Care.Data Need ‘Urgent Action’

Both projects are among those ranked by the Major Projects Authority as in danger of failure

9 years ago

Seven-Day Healthcare? Good Luck Without Mobile

Mubaloo's Alana Saunders tells us why the NHS needs to embrace mobile technology in order to provide a fuller service…

9 years ago

How Securing Blood & Organ Donor Data Became A Minor Operation

Check Point Endpoint Security helps protect 1,400 NHS Blood and Transplant computers

9 years ago

NHS Trust Gets More Efficient With Vodafone Patient Mobile Platform

District nurses can spend more time with patients thanks to Vodafone deployment which reduces amount of travelling and paperwork

10 years ago

NHS Set To Embrace Mobile Health Apps, Digital Records

Patients will be able to access complete NHS records on their smartphone by 2018

10 years ago

NHS Trusts Still Struggling On With Windows XP, FOI Request Finds

Health body facing major bill due to NHS trusts refusing to move on

10 years ago

NHS Data-Sharing Programme Set For Pilot

Controversial care.data programme is to be tested in four areas to help allay confidentiality fears

10 years ago

NHS e-Referrals Delayed Until Next Year

The NHS' digital referrals platform is now planned to go live in the spring, as more testing is carried out

10 years ago

NHS Develops Backbone With Upgraded IT

The NHS Spine is used by more than 20,000 organisations that provide health care across England

10 years ago

IT Life: Finding Health With Big Data

Flying doctor Mark Ratnarajah pilots a big data site for health service consumers

10 years ago

Atos Quits £500m Government Disability Testing Contract A Year Early

French company Atos is walking away from major government contract following concerns over its disability testing procedures

11 years ago

NHS Under Fire Over Third-Party Handling Of Patient Data

NHS data sharing initiatives cause upset again after two third parties take down files that indicate they shared public data…

11 years ago

NHS Choices Website Typo Sends Users Into Malware Danger

Coding error added one letter to a linked domain, leading to threats affecting NHS site visitors

11 years ago

Sharing Your Healthcare Data Is The Ethical Thing To Do

The NHS wants to share your healthcare data. Gayna Hart tells us that the scheme is safe - and it…

11 years ago

English GPs To Start Sharing Anonymised Patient Data

The Department of Health hopes the scheme, starting in March, will help inform better choices

11 years ago

Glasgow NHS IT Shocker Postpones Operations

Delays to chemotherapy treatment and various operations caused by networking issue

11 years ago

Taxpayer To Continue Bankrolling “Dismantled” NHS IT Project

National Programme for IT is likely to cost more than £9.8 billion

11 years ago

NHS Gets £1bn Boost For Online Patient Records Push

Hunt seeks to allay cost and privacy fears around NHS records project

11 years ago

NHS Fined £200k After Computers Containing Patient Data Sold On eBay

One of the worst data breaches the ICO has ever seen leads to hefty fine for the NHS

11 years ago

NHS To Spend £2.2bn On ‘Rotten’ CSC NPfIT Work

The much-maligned NPfIT was canned in 2012 but CSC is still making a load of money from its Lorenzo contract

11 years ago

Hunt Pledges Better Privacy For Health Data

Jeremy Hunt has promised citizens will be allowed to leave a scheme to share their sensitive medical information

12 years ago

LulzSec Members Plead Guilty To NHS, Sony Attacks

Four LulzSec hackers now await sentencing next month

12 years ago

How The Government Is Lying About Fighting The Database State

Exclusive: The Tories said they would end the database state, but ministers like Jeremy Hunt are doing the opposite

12 years ago

Tech Success Awards: The NHS Trust That Trusts In Analytics

Orlando Agrippa got an NHS Trust from Colchester into business analytics, and won our Public Sector Project Of The Year…

12 years ago

Paperless NHS Marks ‘The End Of Medical Privacy’

Plans to get medical data online concern activists already worried about NHS' data selling and poor security history

12 years ago

ThanksDoctor Offers Unlimited Access To Doctors By Email

A new subscription service lets you ask a qualified GP for advice, anytime and anywhere

12 years ago

NHS Claws Back What It Can From CSC, As NPfIT Ends

The government claims £1 billion savings as parts of NPfIT live on

12 years ago