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The public has woken up to the potential of their personal data, the Information Commissioner has said as the ICO’s annual report for 2018-19 was published today. Elizabeth Denham also said it covered an ‘unprecedented’ year for the regulator.
The ICO has today published ‘Openness by Design’, its new access to information strategy.
The strategy sets out five goals relating to the suite of access to information legislation regulated by the ICO: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000, the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) 2004, and the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015.
The Adult Social Care Data and Cyber Security Discovery Programme was funded by the national cyber security programme to explore how the adult social care sector uses technology and to identify good practice, as well as security risks, prevalent in the sector.
This report identifies the common, key risks that provider services face. In addition, it considers the effectiveness of existing support for providers and the changes needed nationally and locally to systems and support in order to maintain cyber security and good information governance.
Today the London Ambulance Service begins a pilot to enable its clinicians to securely access Summary Care Record data on an iPad, without the need for a smartcard or N3, by using the new NHS Identity Service to authenticate to the system.
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An expert in cyber security at the University of York comments on new research from the University of Toronto on the security issues around data sharing by mobile health apps.
Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, considers the need for data security and a nurse's duty of confidentiality in relation to electronic records. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
The aim of the pilot is to build a responsive and efficient process which allows partner services to connect and use NHS login. This will ensure that NHS login can support future demand and enable a simple, single and consistent way for individuals to prove who they are and access digital health and care services.
The five selected partners represent the range of organisations who will connect with NHS login - from large, established organisations to new players in the market.
'Information as an Asset' report - managing information across large multisite organisations, including importance of sound information governance and using information for decision-making.