We spoke with Sai Lakshimi CEO and co-founder of Echo shortly after winning Best Health Tech Start-up in the Tech City News Awards. Echo is a simple free service that delivers medicine to your door and reminds you when and how to take it. Echo allows its users to make […]
Month: December 2016
North Bristol trials Fujifilm’s home reporting solution
North Bristol Trust (NBT) recently completed a successful trial of Fujifilm’s home reporting solution. The Trust is exploring options to enable their radiologists to be more flexible in how, where and when they work, especially for the purpose of clearing reporting backlogs and for on call and weekend emergency reporting. […]
How can GPs harness new innovative technology to help meet QOF targets?
iPLATO has developed a new ‘smoking QOF’ feature on the newly enhanced myGPTM app to help them protect practice income while reducing administration and, at the same time, freeing up staff to allow for more face-to-face patient care. Adding to other benefits offered by the app, the result of its innovative […]
Hicom launches community module
Community services have long been hailed as the knight in shining armour that can transform NHS care. In line with widespread Public Health initiatives aimed at shifting emphasis away from emergency care and towards disease prevention, community services can play a significant part in transforming patient/NHS engagement to alleviate the […]
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust moves towards paperless communication with patients
More than 75,000 patients at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust are now able to receive their appointment notifications via email rather than traditional post, as part of a project to improve how the Trust communicates with patients. Previously, the Trust sent via post more than 1.5 million patient appointment letters […]
Walsall CCG launches Patient Voice Panel
NHS Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has launched www.patientvoicepanel.co.uk for patients to get involved and share their views of local health services. Dr Anand Rischie, Chair of NHS Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group, said: “Patient feedback is essential if we are to continue to improve our local health services. The health service […]
Jon Elburn, Hicom explains how joined-up community services can improve the trajectory of diabetes care
The NHS Five Year Forward View set out a shared vision for the future of the NHS based on ‘new models of care’, and once again highlighted the importance of breaking down the traditional divide between primary care, community services and hospitals. It is an aspiration that is as old […]
