Dashboarding through the snow
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust has a dashboard that both predicts demand in A&E and shows staff what is happening in real-time. Ahead of the busy festive season, Thomas Meek went to see it in action.
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![Industry view: Does blockchain have a role in digital health? Industry view: Does blockchain have a role in digital health?](https://www.digitalhealth.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/industryview-blockchain.jpg)
Industry view: Does blockchain have a role in digital health?
Aridhia’s chief technology officer, Rodrigo Barnes, explains how the blockchain technology that underpins Bitcoin is being explored for other transactions – and wonders if it might have a role in healthcare.
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Patient opt-outs actioned by January
Around 700,000 patients who objected to having their identifiable data shared with third parties will have their wishes recognised by January next year, nearly two years after being offered the opt-out.
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Caldicott: care.data hangs on engagement
The UK government and the health service must engage with GPs and the public if the care.data programme is to go ahead, the NHS national data guardian has told MPs.
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Pharmacy fined for selling patient data
An online pharmacy part-owned by Emis Health faces a £130,000 fine after it sold customer details to a direct marketing company.
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East Lancs digitises nursing forms
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and Caradigm have turned several paper nursing forms into electronic documents.
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NHS trust markets A&E dashboard
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust is working with NHS Shared Business Services to market a suite of data reporting tools developed by the trust’s business intelligence team.
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Care.data delayed by two years
Final approval for the ‘pathfinder’ stage of the controversial care.data programme to go ahead will not be given until early next year.
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OpenCB from Dell and Cambridge University
This white paper looks at development work being undertaken in Cambridge to create a new omics analysis hardware and software platform – using the open source software framework OpenCB and new, high performance hardware from Dell and Intel.
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The biggest winners – obesity challenge
A tool that compares obesity rates nationwide was among the winners of a UK/US competition to creatively use open data sets on obesity.
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