BT has awarded a nine-year contract to enhance data security and privacy for the new NHS Care Records Service to Sapior. The pseudonymisation solution developed by Sapior will be used to deidentify sensitive patient information for use in secondary medical purposes rather than direct patient care.
Data privacy contract awarded
Sapior has been selected as one of a number of suppliers working with prime contractor BT on the NHS Care Records service. This national patient record database will eventually contain a summary care record for every NHS patient in England. Sapior will ensure the confidentiality of these data while they are being used for secondary activities like financial transfers, management information and medical research.
“Sapior offers a mature, forwardlooking data privacy solution that integrates easily and already meets significant future requirements,” explained Rob Story, NHS Care Records Service programme director, BT. “Sapior has been extremely responsive to the demands of this ambitious project.”
“Our significant experience in business intelligence enables us to understand and provide for the unique security needs of sensitive data being analysed or shared over extended time periods, and to accommodate the performance required by such a massive database,” said Robert Navarro, managing director of Sapior.
