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Flockhart ' s team are also supported by expert consultants in the NSS cyber security centre of excellence and from the clinical informatics team . These teams work very closely together on securing the NSS infrastructure and services to ensure that NSS is protected from both external and internal threats and that any clinical use of software , infrastructure or services meet with both internal and regulatory standards .
Scott Barnett , Head of Information and Cyber Security at NSS , comments , “ NSS have committed to providing cyber security services throughout the development lifecycle as well as monitoring these national systems from the moment they go live .” He continues , “ With targeted attacks on the health sector becoming more common , there ’ s a focus on strategic partnerships across the NHS , academia and third-party service suppliers to build a national cyber security capability that ’ s scalable to support our evolving national infrastructure ”
Dr Brendan O ' Brien , Chief Clinical Informatics Officer at NSS , heads up the clinical informatics team . His team have developed an NHS Scotland approach to clinical safety assessment for major health IT programmes . In the past year this enhanced and directed the clinical safety of the national contact tracing solution and national vaccination End-to-End digital solution .
He commented that the team ' s approach is " based on international best practice such as ISO 14971:2019 and sets a new benchmark for clinical safety assessments in Scotland ."
The COVID-19 response During the pandemic , one of NSS ’ s Digital and Security ’ s first tasks was to stand up a centre for the contact tracing service . " We had a huge amount of work that we needed to do on the engineering side to enable lots of different applications to talk to each other ", Flockhart explains . “ This included cloud telephony and a case management system ”.
30 August 2021