A new app will offer information, help and support to people in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire to help them avoid suicide. The Stay Alive app, which is the UK’s first suicide prevention app, was created by the charity Grassroots Suicide Prevention, and will now be available in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire after […]
Month: June 2017
Virtual consultants help CCGs significantly reduce outpatient appointments
Cheshire clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have significantly reduced hospital referrals with a new digital service that could be replicated across the NHS. Thirty practices in South Cheshire and Vale Royal CCGs are using Medefer – a service that enables GPs to access ‘virtual’ consultant advice and management plans – for […]
Papworth Hospital goes live with Lorenzo
Papworth Hospital has launched a new electronic patient record system (EPR) ahead of its move to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus next year. The system went live on Monday 5 June. The project follows months of planning, and involved thousands of paper-based patient records being transferred to the electronic system. The system […]
Heart device on trial that could save the NHS £200 million a year
A new cardiac scanning device that could save the NHS £200 million a year is being trialled at four of the UK’s largest emergency departments in Bristol, Nottingham, Leicester and Sheffield. The Vitalscan device, which has been developed by Creavo Medical Technologies and could revolutionise the way patients with chest pain […]
Moorfields takes first step towards paperless systems
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has commissioned Hicom, a leading provider of clinical information software, to develop and improve the functionality of OpenEyes, the specialist Electronic Medical Record (EMR) application for ophthalmology. The investment will enable Moorfields to move towards a fully paperless system that will provide clinicians real-time […]
St Michael’s Hospital goes live with EPR
St Michael’s Hospital went live last week with an electronic patient management system in its Emergency Department (ED). The system MAXIMS effectively makes the Emergency Departmen paper-lite as the core clinical and administrative processes moved from being paper-based to electronic with no disruption to patient care. IMS MAXIMS has introduced […]
New web calculator to more accurately predict bowel cancer survival
GPs and patients could soon more accurately predict the chances of bowel cancer survival, thanks to a new web calculator developed using data from QResearch, a not-for-profit project between EMIS Health and University of Nottingham. The new tool is intended to help people make more informed decisions around treatment and […]
DeepMind Health to work with Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
DeepMind Health has announced it will start working with Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust after signing an agreement to deploy Streams. The hospital will be working with DeepMind Health to implement and develop the Streams clinical app that will further improve patient safety. This will be available at the […]
Central Manchester and Western Sussex NHS trusts highlight patient safety impact
The work of two NHS trusts in using technology to enhance patient safety, cut lengths of stay and identify patients at risk of serious conditions such as sepsis, has been highlighted to the wider NHS through the publication of two case studies by NHS Improvement. Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS […]
Birmingham and Solihull awarded £5m to develop digital technology in mental health care
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has recently been awarded £5m funding to spearhead the development of digital technology to improve mental health care. The Trust was named as a ‘Global Digital Exemplar’ in a recent announcement in recognition of its status as one of the most advanced […]
