New government legislation will see the NHS legally barred from selling data on medical records to insurers or for other commercial purposes. Instead they must show there is a “clear health benefit”.
Following its report on how the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries obtained data for around 47 million patients for the sum of £2,220, the Telegraph has said the government is responding with new legislation that will ban the Health and Social Care Information Centre, the body in charge of NHS data, from releasing the information for commercial purposes.
In addition, there will be a new “one strike and you’re Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
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