Dr Melanie Ivarsson was on Monday named chief executive of the Health Data Research Service (HDRS), which will give ...

The NHS has an extraordinary opportunity in 2026. Unified data, decision intelligence, and strong workforce capability can ...

An AI tool on the NHS federated data platform is being used by hospitals in England to help predict when A&E departments will be busiest.

Phillip Bland, global government advisor at Qualtrics, shares his view on how the NHS should approach its digital healthcare ...

Care.data is an NHS England project to store all GP patient data in a central database housed by the Health and Social Care Information Center (HSCIC). There it was to be amalgamated with the HES data ...

Health service boss Sir Jim Mackey has paid tribute to NHS staff who battled through doctors' strikes before Christmas to ...

UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting has announced plans to allow NHS England to share primary care data with scientific researchers, taking on some of the responsibility held by GPs. The minister told ...

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How are you? Bit of a cold? Perhaps something worse? Silicon Valley wants to know – big tech is coming for our health data. But while we're generally happy with academic or publicly funded research ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr James Somauroo is the CEO of SomX & covers healthcare innovation A new report by consulting firm EY suggests that if the U.K.

The Government released the latest incarnation of its strategy to enable wider sharing of NHS data that it claims will "drive innovation and deliver cutting-edge patient care". The policy paper, Data ...

To get a doctor’s appointment in the U.K. these days, you have to entrust more of your data to private companies — and there’s not a great deal you can do about it. In part due to growing pressure ...