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NHS England has maintained that the FDP competition has been fair and open since it began in April last year.
However, he noted that newly created Integrated Care Systems, the main intended users of the FDP, have already started buying their own technology and will be free to continue to use it.
Others have raised concerns about vendor lock-in, given the potential difficulty of moving data off Palantir’s platform and into another system should the NHS decide to change providers.
In summer, the National Data Guardian, Dr Nicola Byrne, said: "People want to understand the arrangements to ensure the NHS does not find itself locked into a relationship with any specific vendor.
The consequences of which can include rising costs, no redress against inadequate performance, and prohibitive charges for changes.
People want to be assured that the NHS will maintain control and that its own workforce will continue to upskill in digital, data and technology."
NHS England said no company involved in the FDP would be able to access health and care data without the explicit permission of the NHS.
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Earlier this year, one official likened it to using Microsoft Word online. The cloud has access to that Word document, but the user would not expect Microsoft to be looking at that document, they said.
Oh good - administrative controls, rather than actual technical ones, “preventing” misuse/abuse of sensitive data. What could possibly go wrong?
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Holly shit I would be soooo pissed
How bad will it get before people say enough is enough?
It’s gonna get a lot worse before then.
That’s a familiar number
🤖 I’m a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles:
Click here to see the summary
NHS England has maintained that the FDP competition has been fair and open since it began in April last year.
However, he noted that newly created Integrated Care Systems, the main intended users of the FDP, have already started buying their own technology and will be free to continue to use it.
Others have raised concerns about vendor lock-in, given the potential difficulty of moving data off Palantir’s platform and into another system should the NHS decide to change providers.
In summer, the National Data Guardian, Dr Nicola Byrne, said: "People want to understand the arrangements to ensure the NHS does not find itself locked into a relationship with any specific vendor.
The consequences of which can include rising costs, no redress against inadequate performance, and prohibitive charges for changes.
People want to be assured that the NHS will maintain control and that its own workforce will continue to upskill in digital, data and technology."
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Oh good - administrative controls, rather than actual technical ones, “preventing” misuse/abuse of sensitive data. What could possibly go wrong?
The irony of British people handing over their data to a company named Palantir…