The new position is to focus on NHS England's IT modernisation projects and safeguarding the confidentiality of digital patient records
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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
NHS England Digital Boss Tim Kelsey Resigns
Move to the sun. Digital boss at NHS England is standing down and heading down under
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
Watchdog: Universal Credit, Care.Data Need ‘Urgent Action’
Both projects are among those ranked by the Major Projects Authority as in danger of failure
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 to patients
How Securing Blood & Organ Donor Data Became A Minor Operation
Check Point Endpoint Security helps protect 1,400 NHS Blood and Transplant computers
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
NHS Set To Embrace Mobile Health Apps, Digital Records
Patients will be able to access complete NHS records on their smartphone by 2018
NHS Trusts Still Struggling On With Windows XP, FOI Request Finds
Health body facing major bill due to NHS trusts refusing to move on
NHS Data-Sharing Programme Set For Pilot
Controversial care.data programme is to be tested in four areas to help allay confidentiality fears
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
NHS Develops Backbone With Upgraded IT
The NHS Spine is used by more than 20,000 organisations that provide health care across England
IT Life: Finding Health With Big Data
Flying doctor Mark Ratnarajah pilots a big data site for health service consumers
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
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 in places they shouldn't have
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
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 could be a lifesaver
English GPs To Start Sharing Anonymised Patient Data
The Department of Health hopes the scheme, starting in March, will help inform better choices
Glasgow NHS IT Shocker Postpones Operations
Delays to chemotherapy treatment and various operations caused by networking issue
Taxpayer To Continue Bankrolling “Dismantled” NHS IT Project
National Programme for IT is likely to cost more than £9.8 billion
NHS Gets £1bn Boost For Online Patient Records Push
Hunt seeks to allay cost and privacy fears around NHS records project
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
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
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
LulzSec Members Plead Guilty To NHS, Sony Attacks
Four LulzSec hackers now await sentencing next month
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
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 award
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
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