Davey Winder: turn on, tune in, log-out
Leaving computers logged-in is a security risk and it can be a patient safety risk. To stop it happening, techies and medics need to understand each other.
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First Digital Health Cyber Security Summit this month
New national speakers have been added to the programme for the first Digital Health Cyber Security Summit that will be held on 25 August at the Royal Society of Medicine in London.
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Care.data: gone but not forgotten
Care.data has been officially dead for more than a month, but its legacy is far from buried. Ben Heather takes another look at the devil in the detail of the Caldicott 3 report.
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Davey Winder: Medics texting patient data? It has to stop
The NHS needs secure applications for exchanging sensitive healthcare information. It doesn’t need doctors and nurses sending texts and pictures from their mobiles.
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The GDPR: the €20 million question
The EU’s general data protection regulation sounds like something the NHS won’t need to worry about, now the UK is out of the EU. Right? Almost certainly wrong. Jennifer Trueland reports.
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Dan Taylor: what data security can learn from Euro 2016
Oh, Roy Hodgson. The Hawthorns will always love you, England will just want to forget, but the NHS should learn from you. In data security, as in football, as in life, leadership can really make a difference.
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Obsolete NHS IT to be scrapped as security risk
The government has indicated that there will be a blitz on removing obsolete technology from the NHS that poses a security risk.
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Freeman launches consultation on Caldicott proposals
The government has launched a formal consultation on two of the key proposals in Dame Fiona Caldicott’s latest review of data security and information governance in the NHS.
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Tough penalities and better data control – Caldicott
Dame Fiona Caldicott’s latest review of information governance and data security in the NHS is out; recommending a stronger focus on information security for trusts, as well as new opt-out for patients. Here’s what you need to know.
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Zombie attacks: Windows XP and cyber security
It’s known as the “zombie operating system” because it refuses to die: and worse, it can come back to bite. Daloni Carlisle looks at the cyber security risk posed by Windows XP.
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