The NHS's Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) is to be renamed as NHS Digital, an attempt to build public recognition and trust in the informational services it provides. The ...

The UK’s Health and Social Care Information Centre has published a register of approved data releases as part of its drive towards greater transparency and building public trust. The UK’s Health and ...

AstraZeneca has signed a deal with England’s Health and Social Care Information Centre to improve the usefulness of real-world data in healthcare decision making. AstraZeneca has signed a deal with ...

Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is working to make the government's identify authentication platform secure enough for the NHS to use. Verify, developed by the Government Digital Service ...

The NHS body charged with safeguarding confidential health data has announced a rolling programme of spot checks on companies, charities, universities and government bodies that have received medical ...

New NHS Spine is 'the biggest public-sector IT system to be built entirely on open source software', claims HSCIC The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has completed the final phase of ...

Eerke Boiten receives funding from the UK government for the Kent Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research, as well as from the EU for an Innovative Training Network in Cyber Security.

Ben Goldacre has tweeted that Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) -- the psuedonymised data collected about patients when they visit hospital, which includes patient age, gender, ethnicity, diagnoses, ...

I am embarrassed. Last week I wrote in support of the government's plans to collect and share the medical records of all patients in the NHS, albeit with massive caveats. The research opportunities ...

The NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has selected IT services and solutions provider Mastek to develop an identity and access management service. The announcement comes as part of ...