Digital Health: Data, Security and Compliance
Date/Time
Date(s) - 28/03/2017
10:30 am - 2:30 pm
Location
Digital Media Centre
Categories
Handling NHS patient data?
Developing healthcare apps and digital health technologies?
This event is for you
Inviting all small and medium-sized businesses, corporates, start-ups, digital agencies, researchers and tech entrepreneurs dealing with NHS patient data and developing healthcare apps and other digital health technologies.
What’s the deal with health data? Open health data that is publically released, by NHS Digital for example, is made freely available for everyone to use. It is anonymised so none of the data can be linked to a particular patient. Mark Barrett of Data Flock will show us how analysis of open data can be used in a range of ways, such as to improve the quality of care, reduce healthcare costs, and inform patient choice.
But what if you’re handling new or existing NHS patient data that can be linked to a patient? This event will go on to explore what to do if you are handling NHS patient data and/or developing health apps and digital health technologies and the related data security, compliance, approvals, integration and interoperability considerations.
If your organisation handles NHS patient data, you may need to complete NHS Digital’s Information Governance Toolkit – Information Governance level 2 is needed as part of NHS standard contracts, for tendering and to integrate with Spine, the ‘electronic backbone of the NHS’. Hear from Byron George at the University of York who has taken their Patient Case Management Information System through this process.
The number of health apps on the app stores is growing substantially, over 259,000 at a recent count with 500 million users and 3 billion downloads. How are these apps being regulated and what implications are there for use of people’s personal health data – and what do you need to do as a business? How can standards support innovators in developing novel solutions, whilst also holding them to account for meeting regulations and other professional requirements? Find out more from Rob Turpin from BSI and Julie Bretland of Our Mobile Health.
We also aim to touch on the Accelerated Access Review and NHS Test Beds and the implications for digital health products. Participants who would like to share their experience of handling NHS data, the Information Governance Toolkit, data security or the development of healthcare apps and other digital health technologies will also be invited to present and get feedback from other attendees.
Agenda
10:30 Registration, refreshments and networking
10:50 Chair – Welcome and introductions
Ian Sharp, CEO, Digital Health Enterprise Zone Ltd
10:55 Introduction to Digital Catapult Centre Yorkshire
Janine Hamilton, Project Manager, Digital Catapult Centre Yorkshire
11:00 Use of Open Data to inform healthcare decision-making
Mark Barrett, Director, Data Flock
11:15 Introduction to digital health information governance and data security, and the bodies supporting this, including NHS Digital (formerly the Health and Social Care Information Centre) and the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office).
Byron George, PCMIS Director, University of York
11:30 Case study: The Information Governance Toolkit and PCMIS (Patient Case Management Information System) – how PCMIS meets industry requirements and complies with data security guidelines.
Byron George, PCMIS Director, University of York
11:45 Standards and data security in digital health technologies.
Robert Turpin, Market Development Manager at BSI
12:00 The mHealth apps market and National Information Board (NIB) and European initiatives.
Julie Bretland, Director, Our Mobile Health
12:15 Questions for speakers and discussion
12:45 Lunch and networking
13:30 Opportunity to share ideas or pitch solutions to other participants
14:00 Closing remarks and networking
14.30 End