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The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health. Previously known as the NHS Information Centre, it produces national comparative data for secondary uses, developed from the long-running Hospital Episode Statistics which can help local decision makers to improve the quality and efficiency of frontline care. Its primary aim is to drive the use of information to improve decision making and deliver better care by providing accessible, high quality and timely information to help frontline health and social care staff deliver better care. It stores and analyses data on all hospital activity in the NHS in England. See https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/138265/B6.-Factsheet-Streamlined-arms-length-bodies-250412.pdf The organisation was created as a special health authority on 1 April 2005 by a merger of parts of the Department of Health, parts of the NHS Information Authority, and the Prescribing Support Unit. Following the Health and Social Care Act 2012, the HSCIC changed from a special health authority to an Executive Non-Departmental Public Body (ENDPB) on 1 April 2013. Effective at this time, HSCIC will take over the NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) programme.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Health and Social Care Information Centre Annual Report and Accounts 2011/12 )〕 It runs the Health Survey for England (HSE) and oversees parts of the troubled NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT), whose component projects are now under new names. ==care.data== A programme called care.data was announced by the HSCIC in Spring 2013. Its aim is to extract data from GP surgeries (GPES) to a central database. Members of the English population who are registered with GP practices are being informed that data on their health may be uploaded to HSCIC unless they prefer this not to happen in which case they may object to their data being used by informing their GP. The data on patients who have not objected may then be used in anonymised form by health care researchers, managers and planners including those outside the NHS such as academic institutions or commercial organisations. The use of identifiable data is governed by the common law on confidentiality, UK data protection legislation, the National Health Service Act 2006 and the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Identifiable data can only be released in compliance with those laws. Software and services are being provided by Atos〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.burtonandbransgoremedicalcentres.co.uk/info.aspx?p=10 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://uk.atos.net/en-uk/home/your-business/healthcare/business-intelligence/gp-extraction-service.html )〕 which has itself received criticism for some of its other UK government projects.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/atos-to-manage-nhs-caredata-project-despite-ongoing-mess-over-disability-benefit-assessments-9153885.html )〕 Since its launch, the care.data program was controversial.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/40-per-cent-of-gps-plan-to-opt-out-of-the-nhs-big-data-sweep-due-to-a-lack-of-confidence-in-the-project-9083806.html?origin=internalSearch )〕 Initially criticism focused around the lack of patient awareness of the programme, and the lack of clarity around options for opting out of the data extraction. The leaflet sent to households in England was criticised for only describing the benefits of the scheme, and not including an opt-out form.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://medconfidential.org/2014/better-information-means-better-care-leaflet/ )〕 The programme was stopped in May 2014 and in October 2014 six clinical commissioning groups in four areas of England were selected to take part in a "pathfinder" programme involving 265 GP surgeries with 1.7 million patients across West Hampshire, Blackburn and Darwen, Leeds and Somerset. A review by the Cabinet Office Major Projects Authority said to have been conducted in October 2014 concluded that the program had “major issues with project definition, schedule, budget, quality and/or benefits delivery, which at this stage do not appear to be manageable or resolvable”. In June 2015 it was announced that the programme of data extraction would start again in Blackburn in September. In September 2015, it was announced that the programme had again been paused due to confidentiality concerns remaining unresolved. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Health and Social Care Information Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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