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Adult Social Care Glossary, v 0.6

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Terms relating to

Data sharing, interoperability and analysis

Caldicott guardian

CCG

Clinical Commissioning Group

CSO

Clinical safety officer

CLDC

Common law duty of confidentiality

Confidential information

CPI

Confidential patient information

Confidentiality

Consent for information sharing

DPA

Data Protection Act 2018

Data collection

Data controller

DPIA

Data protection impact assessment

DSA

Data sharing agreement

Duty of transparency

Electronic health record

EMR

Electronic medical record

eMAR

Electronic medication administration record

Emergency information

Explicit consent

GDPR

General Data Protection Regulation

Human Rights Act 1998

Individual care

ICO

Information Commissioner's Office

Information asset register

Information sharing

Joint controller

Joint controller agreement

Legal obligation

LHCRE

Local health and care record exemplar

MODS

Minimum Operational Dataset

NDG

National Data Guardian

National record locator

Operational data

Participating organisation

Permission to view

PHR

Person-held record

Personal data breach

PHR

Personal health record

Primary use data

Publication scheme

Reasonable expectations

RoPA

Record of processing activity

Secondary use data

ShCR

Shared care record

Special category data

Statutory functions

SAR

Subject access request

SCR

Summary care record

Vital interests

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