Health service is to host a series of major ‘engagement’ events over the course of the next 18 months to gather feedback on issues including the controversial Federated Data Platform […]...
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Scottish care homes to trial AI to detect pain among dementia sufferers
National regulator has approved plans for use of app – which is designed to analyse small facial expressions of those with cognitive challenges – to be tested in 15 facilities […]...
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Think Connected: The Future of Healthcare and the transformational power of real-time communication
A panel of digital leaders and healthcare experts examine common workflow challenges and the solutions that boost efficiency and strengthen service delivery...
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Breast cancer and diabetic eye screening to be first beneficiaries of NHS £70m digitisation scheme
Secondary care minister sheds light on funding and implementation plan to Digital Transformation of Screening programme, which aims to provide patients with a range of web and app booking options […]...
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DHSC amends personal data policy to reflect ‘automated decision making’ and remove consent pledge on commercial use
Department updates privacy guidelines to provide for the use of automated tools in decisions and ‘profiling’, as well as removing pledge that patients will have ‘considerable say’ over data use […]...
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Report finds digital divide in healthcare provision
Many countries across Europe and Asia lack a plan for boosting digital health literacy, study from World Health Organization finds, adding that those with limited skills could benefit the most […]...
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Online GP registration hits first-year record
New service is used by a fifth of English GP surgeries, saving staff time while allowing patients to register when convenient...
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‘No more engaged tones or 8am rush’ – government pledges digital telephony for all GPs by March
Health secretary announces that more than a thousand surgeries have already signed up to benefit from upgrade programme, which is intended to reduce the need for patients to keep calling […]...
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Uncertain future for 100,000 patients as NHS virtual GP provider warns of looming bankruptcy
Babylon Health – which provides the NHS GP at Hand virtual surgery – has announced a proposed merger has fallen through and that, unless a buyer is found imminently, it […]...
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Scotland’s Health and Social Care Data Strategy: Power to the people
Two digital and data leaders tell PublicTechnology about the challenges and priorities in driving the development of a connected, smart data ecosystem for supporting the health and social care sector […]...
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