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Big Pharma and care.data
Patients’ identifiable medical data will end up in the hands of large pharmaceutical companies, under the care.data initiative. With “Big Pharma” beholden to shareholders, and its abysmal record on...
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Why no prison sentences for misuse of medical data?
So, the government, roused from its torpor by the public outrage at the care.data proposals, and the apparent sale of 47 million patient records to actuaries, is said to be proposing, as a form of...
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Health data breaches – missing the point?
Breaches of the DPA are not always about data security. I’m not sure NHS England have grasped this. Worse, I’m not sure the ICO understands public concern about what is happening with confidential...
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We thought you cared(ata)
David Evans is Senior Policy Officer at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). In an interview with “The Information Daily.com” uploaded on 12 March, he spoke about data sharing in general, and...
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Opting patients out of care.data – in breach of data protection law?
The ICO appear to think that GPs who opt patients out of care.data without informing them would be breaching the Data Protection Act. They say it would be unfair processing In February of this year GP...
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Articles on care.data
I thought I was rather flogging the care.data horse on this blog, so, in the spirit of persistence, I thought why not go and do it somewhere else? The Society of Computers and Law kindly asked me to...
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Monitoring of blogs and lawful/unlawful surveillance
Tim Turner wrote recently about the data protection implications of the monitoring of Sara Ryan’s blog by Southern Health NHS Trust. Tim’s piece is an exemplary analysis of how the processing of...
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The wrong test for anonymisation?
In February this year I asked the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to investigate reports that Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data had apparently been sold to an actuarial society by the NHS...
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Hospital episode data – confidential data uploaded by mistake
Rather hidden away in the new IIGOP annual report is a worrying and revealing report of a serious data breach involving hospital episode data In February last year Tim Kelsey, NHS England’s National...
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