There is not even any pretense of #democracy in Europe:
#UK citizens, doctors, human rights orgs oppose #Palantir's access to their #healthData, but the British government goes ahead

Read #BritishMedicalJournal on #Palantir:

https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s941.full

GP data: BMA plans patient information campaign to warn of dangers in wake of king’s speech

The chair of the BMA’s General Practitioners Committee England (GPC England) has attacked government plans1 to force GPs and hospitals in England to share patient data that were set out in the king’s speech on 13 May. Addressing the annual conference of UK local medical committees in Belfast, Katie Bramall said that the BMA would launch a patient information campaign to warn against the dangers of the move. Bramall was responding to the NHS Modernisation Bill, which will introduce a single patient record with the aim of bringing together a patient’s medical records in one place. The proposed legislation will compel data sharing, transferring elements of data ownership and responsibility away from individual GP surgeries. The BMA opposes the move, arguing that existing mechanisms already allow …

The BMJ
NHS England confirms: Palantir staff can access patient data

Tech firm's employees can get an 'admin' role letting them into the National Data Integration Tenant... and its identifiable information

theregister

Show HN: Talk to your Oura Ring data through Claude

oura-ring-mcp는 Oura 링의 건강 데이터를 로컬 SQLite 데이터베이스에 동기화하고, Claude LLM을 통해 자연어로 건강 데이터를 분석하고 질문할 수 있게 하는 오픈소스 프로젝트입니다. 사용자는 음주, 커피, 질병 등 개인적 맥락을 자연어로 기록하고, 수면, 회복, 심박수 등 다양한 지표와 연관된 패턴을 탐색할 수 있습니다. 모든 데이터와 주석은 로컬에 저장되어 개인정보 보호가 강화되며, 대부분의 쿼리는 Oura API 호출 없이 로컬에서 처리됩니다. Node.js 기반이며 MCP SDK를 활용해 Claude와 연동해 실시간 대화형 건강 데이터 분석이 가능합니다.

https://github.com/FelixWag/oura-ring-mcp

#oura #llm #healthdata #mcp #sqlite

GitHub - FelixWag/oura-ring-mcp: Talk to your Oura Ring data through Claude. Local SQLite mirror, 14 MCP tools, OAuth2, ~5-minute setup.

Talk to your Oura Ring data through Claude. Local SQLite mirror, 14 MCP tools, OAuth2, ~5-minute setup. - FelixWag/oura-ring-mcp

GitHub

Missed R/Medicine 2026? Watch the recording of “You Should Probably Map That: Introduction to Geospatial Analysis in R.”

This 1-hr demo, led by Anjile An, Weill Cornell Medical College, introduces practical geospatial analysis in R and shows how mapping can help reveal patterns, communicate results, and make health data more actionable.

https://youtu.be/eSZ9FB5Dqnk

#RStats #RMedicine2026 #Geospatial #HealthData

📢 Call for Papers: Data Orchestration in Smart Health: From Raw Biomedical Data to AI-Ready Frameworks

⏳ Submission Deadline: 30 December 2026

🔗 Submit your work: https://spj.science.org/journal/csbj/si/data-orchestration

#CallForPapers #SmartHealth #BiomedicalEngineering #DigitalHealth #HealthInformatics #MedicalImaging #EHR #FAIRData #ClinicalAI #BiomedicalAI #BiomedicalData #HealthData

R/Medicine 2026 starts with 2 days of in-depth demos and workshops TOMORROW!

There's still time to register!

Full program here: https://rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_website/Program.html

#rstats #clinicaltrials #healthdata #healthcare

UK Biobank Data Surfaces for Sale on Alibaba Amid Security Probe

UK Biobank data was mysteriously listed for sale on Alibaba, but thankfully, the listings were swiftly removed with the help of the UK and Chinese governments, and no sales were made. The sensitive data, which includes genomic information, health records, and medical imaging, had been shared with researchers but was de-identified to protect…

https://osintsights.com/uk-biobank-data-surfaces-for-sale-on-alibaba-amid-security-probe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#UkBiobank #Alibaba #GenomicData #HealthData #DataBreach

UK Biobank Data Surfaces for Sale on Alibaba Amid Security Probe

UK Biobank data was listed for sale on Alibaba, learn how security measures prevented breaches and take action to protect your data now effectively online.

OSINTSights

R/Medicine 2026 covers R being used across the full health data workflow - from clinical data entry and REDCap pipelines to reproducible reporting, large-scale analysis, and AI-assisted tools.

Register today! https://rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_website/Program.html

#rstats #clinicaltrials #healthdata #datascience

UK health data is listed for sale on Alibaba in China.

The British government is investigating how health data volunteered to a charity for research purposes wound up for sale via three vendors on the Alibaba e-commerce site in China.

One listing had 500 000 people’s data.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260423-uk-health-data-is-listed-for-sale-on-alibaba-in-china?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#UK #Health #DataBreach #Data #HealthData #UKBiobank #Research

UK health data is listed for sale on Alibaba in China.

The British government is investigating how health data volunteered to a charity for research purposes wound up for sale via three vendors on the Alibaba e-commerce site in China. One …

DW

New in Amnesia 1.4.0: DICOM anonymisation

👉A step towards safer, more consistent, and GDPR-compliant sharing of medical imaging data for research.

🔗https://shorturl.at/C6FgH

#OpenAIRE #HealthData #OpenScience #FAIRData