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Department of Health and Social Care: Databases

Answer

Access to comprehensive, accurate and timely data is critical to the safe, effective and efficient running of the health and social care system in England. We set out our ambition to introduce and use new technology including the innovative use of data in ‘The future of healthcare: our vision for digital, data and technology in health and care’.

Our focus is on getting the digital architecture of the health and care system right, including open standards, secure identity and interoperability, which are critical to the safe and successful use of technology, ensuring that systems talk to each other and that the right data gets to the right place at the right time.

New technologies offer great potential to support preventative, predictive and personalised care. For example, enabling data sets to be linked effectively provides the opportunity to use data-driven technologies such as artificial intelligence to help diagnose diseases or conditions and to gain better insights into treatments and preventions that could benefit all of society.

We recognise that despite recent progress and many areas of excellence the digital transformation of the health and care system is the most important change we will make over the next decade. In order to do this effectively and efficiently, we have established NHSX to bring together in one place the responsibility for driving the transformation of technology, digital and data policy and implementation.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

242861

Session

2017-19

Subjects

Databases Innovation Department of Health and Social Care

Link

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