The Push For Using Your Data Without Your Explicit Consent To Help The Government Manage The Health Sector Just Grinds On!

This appeared last week, with the UK seemingly trying again after the Kelsey led care.data debacle:Alarm at ‘secret’ NHS meeting with tech firms on sharing patient dataMark Bridge, Philip AldrickDecember 31 2019, 12:01am, The TimesNHS chiefs held a closed meeting with giant technology and pharmaceutical companies to consider how billions of pounds could be made from a central database of patient records.The scheme better to harness anonymised medical data would address concerns that the health service had given away intellectual property rights too cheaply in existing deals with companies such as Google ’s DeepMind.Local NHS IT officers have criticised the service’s leaders for discussing it “behind closed doors”, saying that a lack of transparency could erode public trust. The NHS denies acting secretively.At the meeting in London in October, officials including the chairman and the chief executive of NHS England, Lord Prior of Brampton and Sir Simon Stevens, met...
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 9, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs