Technology

The Backdoor Precedent: What Apple's Fight With the Home Office Reveals About the State's Claim on Britain's Health Data

As Whitehall presses a technology company to weaken the security of a phone, it is simultaneously asking patients to hand over something far more sensitive than anything stored on it.

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What a New Buy Now, Pay Later Regime Reveals About Who Owns the NHS Patient Relationship

Retail credit regulation and health data governance rarely share a headline, but both now turn on the same unresolved question about outsourcing the core relationship an institution exists to hold.

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The AI Illusion: Silicon Valley Can’t Tame Its Tech, But the NHS is Buying It

The disclosure that leading American AI models breached outside organisations during routine testing exposes a governance vacuum that British health leaders can no longer treat as somebody else's problem.

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When The Market Cannot Keep Pace: Berkshire's Digital Strategy And The Fragile Arithmetic Of NHS Productivity

A trust's candid admission that scheduling software is simply unavailable in the market reveals how much of Whitehall's efficiency planning depends on technology that has not yet been built.

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The Wifi Problem Beneath the AI Ambition

What one trust group's digital strategy reveals about the real state of NHS modernisation, and why the gap between fixing the basics and promising the future has become a defining tension in health policy.

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US Lawmakers Propose Multimillion-Dollar Push to Digitise Senior Care Records

Legislative effort seeks to end fragmented care for elderly patients through technology grants, echoing the NHS's own digital transition

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Balancing the AI Prescription: Clinical Promise Meets Autonomous Risk

As health-tech innovators secure major capital to transform patient diagnostics, the medical sector must grapple with the profound security implications of increasingly independent artificial intelligence.

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When A Chatbot Beat The NHS To The Single Patient Record

OpenAI's Health rollout in ChatGPT exposes how far Britain's own digital ambitions still trail the platforms patients are already turning to

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Google's Retreat From A Founder-Led Mission Should Sharpen The NHS's Terms With Its AI Partners

Demis Hassabis stepping back from DeepMind revives an unresolved question about what Big Tech owes the health system it once used to prove itself.

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A State-Backed Bet On Solar Heat Technology Raises Awkward Questions About The NHS's Own Stalled Decarbonisation

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China's Warehouse Robots Are Already In Britain's Supply Chains. Washington's Response Should Worry The NHS

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