Up to 1000 iPads could be given to clinicians to access electronic patient records NHS staff at Bradford teaching hospitals foundation trust could soon be using iPads to view the organisation's electronic patient record system under a programme to digitise paper processes at the trust. Bradford has...
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St George's healthcare trust collaborates with eight trusts to purchase ICT including electronic patient record and administration systems St George's healthcare trust is leading eight other London trusts in setting up a framework contract worth between £250m and £400m. The deal will provide...
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Health and social care provider to step up data security after losing memory stick containing patient records A care provider with offices in the Isle of Man and Northern Island has committed to improving its data protection standards after losing a memory stick containing unencrypted patient data. The...
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Connecting for Health guidance says NHS staff must not use tablet devices 'out of the box' or to store patient data NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has issued guidance to staff warning them not to use tablet devices to store sensitive patient data. In a "good practice guidance" document...
Senior information assurance official says new guidance dispels myths about security It is wrong to believe that open source software is implicity insecure, according to the government's main official on the subject. Qamar Yunus of CESG, the National Technical Authority for Information Assurance...
One in eight breaches reported by health service organisations resulted in staff dismissal Figures released to the privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch show that 806 separate incidents involving patient medical records being compromised took place at 152 NHS trusts between July 2008 and July 2011...
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It is a 'conundrum' that data security breaches continue to occur in the health service, according to a senior colleague of the information commissioner NHS staff should be more aware of data security risks as patient confidentiality "is at the heart of what they do", Jonathan Bamford...
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NHS body implements encryption after losing disc with data on 1.6 million people An NHS trust has told patients that it is acting to improve its data handline practices after a rebuke from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for losing a CD containing details on 1.6 million people. Chief...
Investigation under way into loss of health records on laptop belonging to NHS research body London Health Programmes (LHP), an NHS research organisation, has admitted losing a laptop containing 8.6m health records, reports The Register. The machine was lost three weeks ago, but has only just been reported...
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Department of Health says no patient data has been accessed, but says that local website administrators have been affected The Department of Health has confirmed that a group of hackers has found information online affecting the security of NHS websites. A departmental spokesman said: "This is a...
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