Safeguarding patient records at NHS Lothian Overview NHS Lothian, one of 14 Health Boards in Scotland, provides services to a population of around 800,000. It runs four main teaching hospitals and 15 community hospitals, and employs nearly 28,000 staff. It already had strong computer security and HR policies in place; the challenge, says Alistair McLeod, was to find a way to more effectively police them and ensure they were being followed. Alistair McLeod, clinical application and integration manager at NHS Lothian, shares the Health Board’s experiences of being the first in Scotland to introduce automated privacy monitoring. The key insight, he says, is that deploying privacy monitoring is not a purely “eHealth project”, though it is an essential component in the wider deployment

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