Ming Tang, interim chief digital and information officer (CDIO) at NHS England, will headline Digital Health Summer Schools 2025 as national keynote.
Tang has co-chaired a 10-year health plan working group and led the federated…
Dr Justin Whatling is leaving his role at Palantir Technologies to join Optum UK as chief executive officer.
He will take up the position in May 2025, following almost four years as managing director of…
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is running user acceptance testing for a Referral to Treatment (RTT) clinical letters validation tool on the federated data platform (FDP).
The tool is designed to streamline RTT…
The Chief Data and Analytics Officers Network (CDAON) has questioned whether the NHS federated data platform (FDP) is capable of supporting support local health systems.
An open letter to Ming Tang, chief data and analytics…
A cancer diagnostic pathway management service is among the new products running on the federated data platform (FDP) to launch in 2025, NHS England has announced.
The FDP brings together data currently held in separate…
As a practising psychiatrist, Dr Nicola Byrne, the National Data Guardian for health and social care in England, is acutely aware of the significance of health data for patients.
“Working in psychiatry, people are sharing…
The last 12 months has seen a new government, a major cyber attack on the NHS and a commitment to £2bn tech funding hitting the headlines.
Digital Health News has picked out 10 of the…
Qualified clinical coders are vital to ensure clinical information and funding flows around the system correctly. But a national shortage of coders is having wide-ranging consequences, argues Marc Farr, chair of the Chief Data…
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Digital Health Unplugged covers all things health technology and NHS IT. Hosted by Digital Health’s news reporter Jordan Sollof, the podcast delves into key issues and news stories in the sector. It also…
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One year after the launch of NHS England’s federated data platform (FDP) many of the initial concerns about its adoption have proven unfounded, argues Matthew Taylor, chief executive of NHS Confederation.
A year is a…
