NHS green-lights Cloud
NHS green-lights cloud technology for storing patient data NHS Digital has issued new national guidance for health and care organisations considering cloud services for storing patient information. The document outlines a framework for assessing and managing risk around the use of public cloud technologies in the health and social care sectors in England, including legalities around how data should be stored and used and considerations to be made by organisations when choosing a supplier. The guidance also contains best practice principles for handling customer data and highlights considerations to be made by trusts prior to the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 25 May. The cloud has been widely embraced in other UK industries under the government’s 2013 ‘cloud first’ policy for public sector IT. While some parts…