The government wants to change the NHS Constitution so that patient information is automatically included in clinical research.
The move, which will be subject to consultation, is part of a raft of government announcements designed to boost investment in Britain’s life sciences sector and to drive innovation in the NHS.
The headline announcement, that data linking hospital and primary care data could be released to drug and other companies, created a storm of controversy in the national media, with privacy watchdog groups warning that it would herald the “death of privacy”.
However, in a press release conflating a number of different plans, the Department of Health insisted that the move to change the NHS consultation came “in response to calls from research charities and clinicians for government to get patients more involved in supporting the research agenda.”E-Health Insider :: Govt to opt patient data into trials
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
NDL - Application Integration, Mobile, Emulation, Integrate, Business, Solutions
Around 100 public sector delegates gathered at seminars in Manchester and London to learn about the latest developments in mobile working from specialist software house NDL. The work practice is predicted to expand rapidly in the next three years with both the number and scope of mobile projects in health organisations growing dramatically.
Research carried out by NDL, which specialises in mobile working and integration, showed that a further 33% of health authorities plan on joining the 31% of organisations which already have a live mobile working project. What’s more, by 2014 60% of projects are expected to involve more than 100 workers, compared to just 23% currently.
The company’s response has been to develop a new version of its corporate mobile system awiMX capable of enabling non-technical users to develop apps on the Android, Windows and Blackberry operating systems and distribute them to respective phones and tablets. At the seminars, the system was demonstrated by NDL consultant Patrick Kirby who built and distributed an expenses app across the three operating systems and five devices in just 15 minutes. Delegates also heard about case studies from a number of health authorities including North Devon and Rotherham NHS Trusts.NDL - Application Integration, Mobile, Emulation, Integrate, Business, Solutions
Research carried out by NDL, which specialises in mobile working and integration, showed that a further 33% of health authorities plan on joining the 31% of organisations which already have a live mobile working project. What’s more, by 2014 60% of projects are expected to involve more than 100 workers, compared to just 23% currently.
The company’s response has been to develop a new version of its corporate mobile system awiMX capable of enabling non-technical users to develop apps on the Android, Windows and Blackberry operating systems and distribute them to respective phones and tablets. At the seminars, the system was demonstrated by NDL consultant Patrick Kirby who built and distributed an expenses app across the three operating systems and five devices in just 15 minutes. Delegates also heard about case studies from a number of health authorities including North Devon and Rotherham NHS Trusts.NDL - Application Integration, Mobile, Emulation, Integrate, Business, Solutions
E-Health Insider :: NDL predicts mobile revolution
A study of how the UK health sector is introducing mobile working has predicted that the market is on the verge of a “revolution.”
Software provider NDL surveyed the health sector as part of its annual mobile working report this spring. The survey received responses from 40 healthcare workers – mainly healthcare IT specialists.
The responses showed that the use of personal information management applications – such as mobile email and calendars – was “well established” in the sector.
The report goes on to predict that such applications will spread rapidly over the next three years, in what could “almost be described as a revolution in mobile usage.”
E-Health Insider :: NDL predicts mobile revolution
Software provider NDL surveyed the health sector as part of its annual mobile working report this spring. The survey received responses from 40 healthcare workers – mainly healthcare IT specialists.
The responses showed that the use of personal information management applications – such as mobile email and calendars – was “well established” in the sector.
The report goes on to predict that such applications will spread rapidly over the next three years, in what could “almost be described as a revolution in mobile usage.”
E-Health Insider :: NDL predicts mobile revolution
E-Health Insider :: DH launches 3m lives telehealth campaign
The Department of Health has launched a campaign to use telehealth to improve the lives of 3m people over the next five years.
The launch came as the DH simultaneously published a review of innovation in the NHS and the ‘early headline findings’ from its Whole Systems Demonstrator programme.
The WSD randomised controlled trial was launched in May 2008 to assess the benefits and impacts of telehealth and telecare technology on the NHS and social care services.
E-Health Insider :: DH launches 3m lives telehealth campaign
The launch came as the DH simultaneously published a review of innovation in the NHS and the ‘early headline findings’ from its Whole Systems Demonstrator programme.
The WSD randomised controlled trial was launched in May 2008 to assess the benefits and impacts of telehealth and telecare technology on the NHS and social care services.
E-Health Insider :: DH launches 3m lives telehealth campaign
E-Health Insider :: NHS open data plans 'death of privacy'
Privacy groups say a government plan to share anonymised NHS data with commercial companies will herald the “death of patient confidentiality”.
Prime Minister David Cameron is due to give a speech this afternoon unveiling plans to boost the UK’s life sciences sector.
According to wide-spread coverage of his speech, these will involve a new service, developed by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, that will link anonymised hospital data with data from primary care.
The government is to spend £60m developing the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. It is not clear whether companies will pay to use it.E-Health Insider :: NHS open data plans 'death of privacy'
Prime Minister David Cameron is due to give a speech this afternoon unveiling plans to boost the UK’s life sciences sector.
According to wide-spread coverage of his speech, these will involve a new service, developed by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, that will link anonymised hospital data with data from primary care.
The government is to spend £60m developing the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. It is not clear whether companies will pay to use it.E-Health Insider :: NHS open data plans 'death of privacy'
Open Data and E-Health
Today’s announcement is less ambitious with regard to patient access, but more ambitious about opening up information to industry.
The Open Data measures published on the Cabinet Office website say that from September 2012, healthcare datasets from GP practices will be linked with hospital data to enable healthcare impacts to be tracked across the entire health service.
The secure data linkage service - set up by the Health and Social Care Information Centre - will allow users to track the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of things like drugs and procedures and is expected to put the UK in a “prime position for research investment.”
The Department of Health said these linked data sets would provide the health service, pharmaceutical industry, academics and other professionals with “unequalled levels of information about the journeys of patients through the care system and the outcomes of different treatments.”
The document also repeats earlier announcements that the government will publish practice-level prescribing data by September 2012 and additional health and social care datasets by September 2013.
This will include GP reference data, Care Quality Commission Provider Profile Reports and Choose and Book usage at GP practice level.
Via Rebecca Todd
E-Health Insider :: Government announces new Open Data plans
E-Health Insider :: Government announces new Open Data plans
The government has pledged that everybody in England will have online access to their GP records by “the end of this parliament” in 2015.
The announcement was made as part of Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement, which painted a generally bleak picture of the UK economy, while including some measures to try and stimulate growth.
Among these are a Plan for Growth that includes a number of Open Data measures aimed at stimulating industry and jobs. These were developed in collaboration with a number of companies including GlaxoSmithKline.
A document outlining the measures says providing access to personal GP records online will empower patients and encourage the market for education in data management and learning platforms.
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