Leading UK IT managed services provider Redcentric has announced one of its most significant public sector wins to date, with the award of the new Peering Exchange contract which forms the core of the new Health and Social Care Network (HSCN). NHS Digital has selected Redcentric on an initial three-year […]
Month: January 2017
West Mid Hospital pilots new innovative technology
West Middlesex University Hospital is one of few in the country to be first to trial a new technology on their general wards that could potentially save future lives. This technology is a wireless monitoring system of patient’s vital signs providing medical professionals with real time information about patient’s heart […]
Northern NHS trusts share digital lessons for successful launch of major hospital system
Hospital patients in north Cumbria will be referred more quickly and efficiently to the right treatment and care following a technology partnership that has learnt vital lessons from a neighbouring NHS trust. North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust has successfully gone live with a new patient administration system which will […]
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust wins award with Move it Boom Rio website
Move it Boom scoops ‘best website’ at the Northern Digital Awards Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) is delighted that ‘Move it Boom Rio’, their summer physical activity website aimed at primary school children and hosted on the Health for Kids platform (www.healthforkids.co.uk) has been named as the winner of the […]
Start-up Healthera success in £4.3 million investment round to reduce A&E pressures
Fast growing start-up Healthera, is one of just five innovations in the UK to be awarded funding as part of NHS England’s £4.3 million investment initiative in new technologies that ease pressure on urgent and emergency care services. With accident and emergency pressures increasing and waiting times reaching their highest […]
iMDsoft awarded a position on the new clinical IT framework developed by QE Facilities
iMDsoft®, a leader in clinical information systems, announced that they have been awarded a position on the new clinical IT framework developed by QE Facilities, a subsidiary company of Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust. “We were recently awarded a position on the NHS LPP Clinical and Digital Information Systems framework […]
Sitekit and NHS England setting the standard in Child Health IT
NHS England has contracted Sitekit to develop, publish and implement the technical messages and standards to deliver the vision set out in the Digital Child Health Strategy. This will enable national implementation of the electronic red book and allow information to flow to and from clinical systems. NHS England is […]
St Helens makes major patient safety advances with electronic early warning system
Patients and staff at a north-west NHS trust are starting to see the high-impact benefits of technology-enabled care after the introduction of early warning and alerting technology Patientrack. The system is helping healthcare professionals across 55 wards at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust quickly identify the sickest […]
Horder Healthcare picks IMS MAXIMS
Horder Healthcare is to deploy an electronic patient record (EPR) from software provider IMS MAXIMS, in order to improve care for thousands of patients and facilitate its digital journey to align it with the NHS’s ambition of paperless at the point of care by 2020. The commitment will enable the […]
Development roadmap for e-referrals announced
NHS Digital has produced a roadmap for system enhancements to the NHS e-Referral Service up to October 2018. NHS Digital is working with development partner BJSS to deliver new features and improve the user experience in readiness for the October 2018 deadline. This is when all consultant-led first outpatient appointments need to be made […]