{"id":11545,"date":"2023-09-14T04:38:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T02:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/14\/our-health-data-is-about-to-flow-more-freely-like-it-or-not-big-techs-plans-for-the-nhs\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T04:38:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T02:38:15","slug":"our-health-data-is-about-to-flow-more-freely-like-it-or-not-big-techs-plans-for-the-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/14\/our-health-data-is-about-to-flow-more-freely-like-it-or-not-big-techs-plans-for-the-nhs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our health data is about to flow more freely, like it or not\u2019: big tech\u2019s plans for the NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The government is about to award a \u00a3480m contract to build a vast new database of patient data. But if people don\u2019t trust it, they\u2019ll opt out \u2013 I know, because I felt I had to<\/p>\n

Last December, I had an abortion. Most unwanted pregnancies set a panic-timer ticking, but I was almost counting down the seconds until I had to catch a flight from London, where I live, to Texas, where I grew up, and where the provision of abortion care was recently made a felony<\/a>. You bleed for a while after most abortions, and I was still bleeding when I boarded the plane home for Christmas.<\/p>\n

Going to Texas so soon after the procedure made me consider where the record of my abortion \u2013 my health data \u2013 would end up. When I phoned an abortion clinic in late November to book an appointment, one of the first questions staff asked was: \u201cMay we share a record of your treatment with your GP?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nThe government is about to award a \u00a3480m contract to build a vast new database of patient data. But if people don\u2019t trust it, they\u2019ll opt out \u2013 I know, because I felt I had to
\nLast December, I had an abortion. Most unwanted pregnancies set a panic-timer ticking, but I was almost counting down the seconds until I had to catch a flight from London, where I live, to Texas, where I grew up, and where the provision of abortion care was recently made a felony. You bleed for a while after most abortions, and I was still bleeding when I boarded the plane home for Christmas.
\nGoing to Texas so soon after the procedure made me consider where the record of my abortion \u2013 my health data \u2013 would end up. When I phoned an abortion clinic in late November to book an appointment, one of the first questions staff asked was: \u201cMay we share a record of your treatment with your GP?\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The government is about to award a \u00a3480m contract to build a vast new database of patient data. But if people don\u2019t trust it, they\u2019ll opt out \u2013 I know, because I felt I had to Last December, I had an abortion. Most unwanted pregnancies set a panic-timer ticking, but I was almost counting down …<\/p>\n

\u2018Our health data is about to flow more freely, like it or not\u2019: big tech\u2019s plans for the NHS<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11545"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}