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  NHS information security: what's going wrong?

  Data security in the health service has been heavily criticised, following a number of high profile breaches. Steve Gold asks why
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  ICO chastises NHS over data losses

  NHS organisations were responsible for 30% of the security breaches reported to the Information Commissioner's Office over the last two years

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  Security leads NHS to avoid flashy mobiles

  Healthcare officials have warned that service providers expose their community staff to security risks if they issue them with obtrusive mobile devices

• Another hospital stricken with Conficker virus

  West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust has been infected by the virus, leaving hospital staff unable to book appointments via computer

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  No to SCRs

  NO2ID, which has played a major role in the campaign against identity cards, also opposes Summary Care Records. National coordinator Phil Booth explains why

• Start-ups move into data and e-learning

  Two young enterprises are aiming to help health providers pseudonymise their data and teach staff about IV pumps, discovers Cath Everett

• Replace IE6 browser, DoH tells NHS

  The Department of Health has told trusts using Windows 2000 or XP to move to version 7 of Microsoft's browser

• Stolen hospital laptop held 33,000 records

  Southampton University Hospitals has promised to improve data security after the theft of a laptop holding thousands of unencrypted patient records

• Wireless hospitals see bigger picture

  Few hospitals have adopted wireless networks, with adopters linking projects to the likes of PACS imaging systems, finds Cath Everett

• How will 2010 handle health IT?

  The new year will see tough decisions for England's National Programme and a surge of activity in the US, writes Michael Cross

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  Health must take data handling seriously

  NHS trusts have valuable data but are failing on basic protection, argues the Digital Systems Knowledge Transfer Network's Tony Dyhouse

• Scotland prescribes e-counts for health board elections

  Electronic counting, which was associated with major problems in Scotland's 2007 parliamentary elections, will be used for its first health board votes, reports David Torrance

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