NHS X & Israel - a match made in heaven

[FVCK BILLY G4TES]

Hello, you all know about Israel right now and if you don't, you should. I'm not going to go on and on again but they are a tech juggernaut, building the NWO. Plenty of threads on it by now. 

 

I have however found something that is a KEY cog in the machine of medical tyranny. I was looking around at the health services connection to occupied palestine and I found something that I can't believe I didn't know about. 

 

Has anyone heard of NHSX? I didn't hear a whiff about it until recently but I think it may be some food for thought.

 

Here's what wiki says NHSX is:

 

NHSX is a United Kingdom Government unit with responsibility for setting national policy and developing best practice for National Health Service (NHS) technology, digital and data, including data sharing and transparency.

 

It was established in early 2019 by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, to bring together information technology teams from the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England, and NHS Improvement. NHSX will work closely with the Government Digital Service and other relevant government functions. It is led by Matthew Gould. The 'X' in NHSX stands for "user experience".

 

Now with that in mind, established my Matt Hancock in 2019. Develops national policy on NHS technology. It is a Government unit... hmm. Okay.

 

Now here's the kicker:

https://www.publictechnology.net/articles/features/nhsx-chief-not-about-tech-or-data-–-it’s-about-patients

 

NHSX chief: This is not about tech, or data – it’s about patients

A year after NHSX was founded, the healthtech organisation’s head Matthew Gould discusses AI, data sharing and privacy in this exclusive interview

 

 

You could say Matthew Gould’s journey to leading NHSX started three and a half thousand miles away. A career diplomat, Gould was serving as the British ambassador to Israel when he helped to launch the UK-Israel Technologies Hub – an initiative run out of the British Embassy in Tel Aviv to forge technology partnerships between UK and Israeli companies.

 

“I spent a lot of time building links between the UK and Israel in tech. The Israeli tech scene is extraordinary,” Gould says.

 

Israel was his last international posting – previously he had spent time in Islamabad, Washington, Manila and Tehran, during which time he was sent to negotiate the release of a group of marines and sailors who had been taken prisoner by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

 

Rather than go back to the Foreign Office when he returned to the UK in 2015, he became director of cybersecurity at the Cabinet Office – a move in part spurred by his involvement in the tech partnership in Israel, he says.

 

“That in turn led me to become the government’s first director general for digital policy. And then having lived it on a national and policy level, the prospect of doing it for real in a very sort of punchy way here [for the NHS] was too good an opportunity to pass up.”

 

Gould became chief executive of NHSX – an organisation that sits across NHS England and the Department for Health and Social Care – last May, three months after health secretary Matt Hancock announced its creation. Its aim, according to Hancock, is to “bring strategy, leadership and technical expertise to... the world’s most exciting public sector digital transformation project”.

 

The role of NHSX – and its relationship to existing bodies like NHS Digital, which provides tech and information systems to support healthcare – is not yet well understood by many outside the organisation. But when PublicTechnology sister publication Civil Service World puts this to the former ambassador, he says the two have very different roles to play.

“NHSX is the guiding mind at the centre: we are the centre for strategy, we hold the budgets, we set the policy and we commission from NHS Digital and from others like NHS Business Services Authority.”

 

He refers to a speech by Hancock in January, which described NHS Digital and NHS BSA as the “tracks down which tech runs in the NHS”. Gould adds: “So they are the core delivery partner for health and care.”

 

 In 2016, the ill-fated care.data project, which was to extract anonymised records from GP surgeries into a central database, was closed after concerns about patient consent and confidentiality.

 

But one need only look at the last year’s worth of headlines to see that debate around the topic is not getting any less heated, and that some of the public already have already lost trust in what is happening to health data. In December, the Atlantic ran an article warning about the trend of big companies gathering up huge reams of health data – whether that’s Apple gathering it directly through footstep and sleep trackers on people’s iPhones, or Facebook’s AI division working with radiologists to teach its machine-learning systems to read MRI scans. The headline? “Everyone should be worried by big tech’s huge NHS data grab.”

 

What does Gould think – should everyone be worried?

 

“Well, I think what I would rather frame it as is: we should make sure that whatever we do is in line with the principles that we’ve set out,” Gould says.

 

Last year, the Clinical Practice Research Datalink – part of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, through which companies can buy patient data compiled from GP surgeries and hospitals for research purposes – changed the way it described the data it was selling from “anonymous” to “anonymised”. The latter means it has been through processes to de-identify the patients it comes from – but there is no rigid standard for how this should be done.

 

Two days before CSW meets Gould, the Observer has published claims by anonymous “senior NHS figures” saying patient data sold for research via CPRD could be traced back to individual medical records.

 

Gould says he wouldn’t want to comment on that story, given that it concerns a separate government body. “That was a particular data set belonging to a particular organisation. I wouldn’t leap to a conclusion that because people have concerns, therefore it’s not working.”

 

Seven in ten
Proportion of people in England that approve of NHS partnerships with tech firms if they improve patient care, according to a study from the National Data Guardian
 

1.6 million
Number of records that were shared without patient consent by the Royal Free Hospital with Google DeepMind
 

‘User experience’
The symbolism of the ‘X’ in NHSX
 

February 2019
Date of NHSX’s creation
 

£250m
Money invested in creating the health service’s National AI Lab

 

Many people have mixed feelings about AI – not least because of a scandal that erupted when Royal Free Hospital handed over 1.6 million patients’ health records to DeepMind, an AI company owned by Google, without their consent. The Information Commissioner’s Office later found the hospital had failed to comply with data-protection legislation.

 

[FVCK BILLY G4TES]

Go read more for yourself. I need to cleanse my mind after all that corruption.

[EnigmaticWorld]

Israeli tech will help reshape world after pandemic
https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-tech-will-help-reshape-world-after-pandemic/

 

“In the dawn of the post-pandemic new digital age, Israel can transcend its ‘Start-Up Nation’ status and become the leading nation in providing its citizens – and ultimately the world – with cutting-edge digital solutions in health, education, and welfare,” the authors state.

 

[FVCK BILLY G4TES]

@EnigmaticWorld They are literally building the new world order as we speak yet everyone isn't screaming it from the rooftops.

 

Makes me angry and sad at the same time.