Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT and eHealth news for the week ending July 10:
care.data dumped after Caldicott review
Digital Health News ~ Ben Heather ~ 06/07/2016
The controversial care.data programme has been killed off following the release of Dame Fiona Caldicott's latest report on security and information governance in the NHS, which recommends sweeping changes to NHS data protection.
11 million patient record breaches make June worst month for information security in 2016
Healthcare IT News ~ Jack McCarthy ~ 07/07/2016
The number of healthcare security attacks continues to grow with breaches of over 11 million patient records in June, more than any other month this year, according to a report from security firm Protenus and DataBreaches.net