Archive for December, 2006

A change of tack?

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

It appears that the Dept of Health might be relenting on its previous strategy of forcing people to store their records on the NCRS Spine.

A report in the Guardian claims that patients will now be able to opt out from having their information uploaded. At this stage however there is still plenty of time for further changes to policy & I do not yet consider this a victory for privacy advocates. Also a reminder that the recommended approach is to opt-in.

In other news, junior health minister Lord Warner who is considered a “safe pair of hands” is to step down but all concerned deny any association with the failures of the CfH boondongle.

The British Computing Society has come out with a report advocating what appears to be a sensible strategy of a virtual national network of records services.

And observers will note the sense of deja-vu engendered by the operating framework for the NHS in England for 2007-2008.

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Data security - verifying the audit trail

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

Is the US healthcare system making the same mistakes as CfH did here in the UK? For a country that has known numerous high profile breaches of privacy & data security, retro-fitting a capability for privacy to electronic healthcare data is a naive way to do things. But they atleast appear to be investigating breaches. I have not heard too much about any similar exercise and outcomes here in the UK. What does seem to be happening is a threatened witchhunt.

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