In this instalment of our development update, we share what our developer and product teams will be busy working on over the next month.
Category: Privacy
Updating advanced consent
We’re updating the Patients Know Best advanced consent questions to make them easier for patients to understand.
BMJ article “How can doctors meet relatives’ information demands?”
The British Medical Journal covered PKB in its article about giving carers and family members information about a patient’s progress. This is of course important
Review of shared data types in PKB
As part of disable sharing functionality, we have been reviewing what this means for features in the system which intrinsically support collaboration and sharing, namely
Speeding up PKB’s decryption and upgrading encryption
From this week, new data in PKB will display faster and be locked up more securely. A quick reminder about PKB’s security: we encrypt each
Genetic advances threaten privacy of one hundred thousand genome project
Advances in genetics are mostly wonderful (and completely amazing) but each discovery chips away at privacy. In September a paper showed that sequencing a person’s