Senior health tech pros warn NHS England: Be transparent with mass database trawl or face public backlash

Senior health tech pros warn NHS England: Be transparent with mass database trawl or face public backlash

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/24/senior_health_tech_pros_warns_nhs_england_be_transparent_with_mass_database_trawl_or_face_public_backlash/

Senior healthcare techies have warned England's National Health Service (NHS) that it will need to be open with industry professionals and the wider general public as it forges ahead with the collation and potential sale of millions of Brits' medical records via a mega database.

As exclusively revealed by The Register on 12 December, senior heads at Microsoft, AWS, AstraZeneca and other businesses met behind closed doors with leaders of the NHS to thrash out ways to create a commercially valuable repository of 65 million patients’ data to improve healthcare, and mull ways to fund or even profit from it.