BETTER USE OF DATA IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE NHS TO TACKLE WAITING TIMES .
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BETTER USE OF DATA IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE NHS TO TACKLE WAITING TIMES .
software across England to help bring down waiting lists , improve patient care and reduce health inequalities .
“ It builds on our role supporting the delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine and , more recently , helping individual NHS Trusts to schedule more operations .”
The Federated Data Platform will also be the first use case in the NHS of Privacy Enhancing Technology ( NHS-PET ), a nationally assured and funded privacy tool to benefit all NHS organisations .
NHS-PET will ensure that the NHS can meet the highest technical standards of security for managing patient data , supported by robust information governance and data protection processes .
The procurement for NHS-PET has been run separately from the Federated Data Platform and the suppliers are deliberately different . NHS-PET will be an independent service ensuring that treatment of data is separate from the storage of data , to safeguard data and ensure that it is always kept safe and secure .
IQVIA has been announced as the winning bidder for the NHS ’ s Privacy Enhancing Technology ( NHS-PET ) contract , in a threeyear deal with options to extend .
Alistair Grenfell , President Europe , Middle East , Africa and South Asia and Global Head of Public Health at IQVIA , said : “ We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with NHS England , where we will be applying our industry leading privacy analytics solution . Through our globally recognised technology and expertise , we aim to ensure the protection of NHS data . IQVIA has a proven track record in governing and protecting patient information while providing transparency in its use .”
In Dorset , trusts have used the Federated Data Platform to enable capacity for an additional 2,500 surgical treatments per year . They are now booking patients in for appointments further in advance than they ever have before , with cancellation rates falling as a result .
And in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital , trailing data-sharing has been critical for the team to see and treat cancer patients sooner as they tackle the backlog . �
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