NHS Digital has announced plans to improve transparency around how patient data is utilised and accessed, via a new Data Uses Register. According to the organisation, the ‘new interactive tool’ will make it easier to see who is viewing the data, what they are allowed to use it for and […]
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AI in Health and Care Award round 3 opens
The AI in Health and Care Award has opened for its third round of applications this week. Through the first two rounds of the programme 80 innovations have been supported as part of the £140 million investment to support artificial intelligence for the NHS. Managed by the Accelerated Access Collaborative, NHSX […]
WHO issues first global report on AI in health
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its first global report and six guiding principles on the design and use of artificial intelligence in health. The report, ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health, focuses on ensuring ethics and human rights are at the forefront of its design, deployment […]
NHS Digital and PHIN announce hospitals for pilot of national data alignment programme
NHS Digital and the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) have announced the first healthcare providers that are set to take part in pilots of the Acute Data Alignment Programme (ADAPt), a new national data alignment programme between the NHS and private sector. The collaboration will lead to private healthcare data […]
Draft data strategy policy paper published
The Department of Health and Social Care and NHSX have published a draft policy document, data saves lives: reshaping health and social care with data, aiming to set out priorities and commitments on how data is used and shared, and the underlying standards and infrastructure. The strategy highlights ‘bold commitments’ […]
£36 million funding for AI technologies
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced a £36 million increase in funding for AI technology-based healthcare services and products. 38 projects will be awarded funding and have been backed by NHSX and Accelerated Access Collaborative (ACC); in total 336 projects submitted applications to join the programme. Sir […]
NHS Digital Terminology Server goes live
The NHS Digital Terminology Server is now live. The platform supports data exchange between systems and integration of local coding systems with national and international coding languages, such as SNOMED-CT and FHIR. In September 2020, NHS Digital awarded a contract to Dedalus and CSIRO, the creators of Ontoserver, to implement […]
NHS Digital announces delay to collection of GP data
NHS Digital has announced a two month delay to the GP Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) programme, a primary care data collection service originally set to come into place on 1 July 2021. On 12 May, NHS Digital announced the data collection service, to make near-real-time information and data […]
BMA and RCGP call for delay in roll-out of patient data sharing programme
The Royal College of GPs and the British Medical Association have called on the government to delay the GP Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) programme. On 12 May, NHS Digital announced the new primary care data collection service was set to come into place on 1 July 2021, to […]
AI tool developed to streamline pathology workflow
A team of researchers, academics and pathologists from the University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) has developed an artificial intelligence tool to help streamline pathology workflows – which could speed up diagnoses of prostate cancer. The multidisciplinary team from Oxford has created an algorithm that […]
