From The Country That Gave Us The ADHA CEO Comes A Stern Warning About Health Information Protection And Use.

This appeared last week:Lack of clarity around data sharing risks ‘irreparable mistrust’, NHS Digital chief warnsAbsolute clarity is needed around how the NHS will use patient data or we risk “deep and almost irreparable mistrust”, the NHS Digital chief has said.Andrea Downey15 March 2019Sarah Wilkinson said the NHS needs to formalise its position on the s econdary use of patient data in order to fully benefit from the insights already available within the national data set.Speaking at a Kings Fund and IBM Watson event on artificial intelligence in healthcare on Tuesday, Wilkinson said we need to “directly address people’s concerns by laying out o ur ethical approach to dealing with data and providing absolutely clarity on how we intend to use health data”.She warned that “political interest” could interfere while there is no clear guidance.“Today the legislation that governs the use of health and care data in the system allows for mu ltiple interpretations,” she told the audience in... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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